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Offline pyro

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« on: Mon, 12 September 2011, 10:34:20 »
I don't like blue switches much, so I bought an old Cherry G81 and replaced all blue stems and springs in the Poker with black ones. All except for the switches with LEDs in them, since the LEDs seem to be mounted on top of the switch cover.

My guess is it shouldn't affect the rest of the keyboard if I just teared the LEDs out by force, but I'm not sure about that. Does anyone have defect LEDs on the Poker or has actually figured out how to open a switch with an LED on it?
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Offline DaemonRaccoon

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 12 September 2011, 10:36:01 »
Desolder the LED from the underside, tearing it out could damage the PCB.
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Offline pyro

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 12 September 2011, 10:47:52 »
I don't have access to a soldering iron right now. It should be possible to cut the metal contacts just under the LED, though. But would my Poker work afterwards?
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Offline DaemonRaccoon

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 12 September 2011, 11:00:21 »
It would be pretty difficult to cut the LED's pins, the other switches get in the way for most of them.
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Offline monked

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« Reply #4 on: Mon, 12 September 2011, 11:25:00 »
well... this is the main reason why i switched to the idea of a non-backlit keyboard! GET DEM GHETTOREDS!
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Offline pyro

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KBC Poker - tear out a LEDs?
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 14 September 2011, 10:35:26 »
So I desoldered them. My Poker now has a full set of ghettoreds (50cN) with a green-spring grey-stem spacebar. That's what I was looking for from the start.

I now also have a full character set of heavy blues (black springs, blue stems) but I still don't like them. The click and force peak are just too irritating, I bottom out half of the time (but almost never with the ghettoreds).

tl;dr
GHETTOREDS!
« Last Edit: Wed, 14 September 2011, 11:50:57 by pyro »
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