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QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 19:39:14 »
http://www.amazon.com/Storm-QuickFire-Rapid-Mechanical-SGK-4000-GKCL1-US/dp/B0068INSUM

Looks like the lowest it's ever been on Amazon before today was $64 in Aug/Sept. Average price being $69 over the past year.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 19:42:04 »
That is pretty close to the lowest, which was around $45 after MIR. They're floating around retail computer stores (Fry's, Micro Center) for $60.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 19:43:48 »
Here's another graph of price, http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-keyboard-sgk4000gkcl1us, showing it to be just sliiightly lower throughout december, but who knows what merchat, and I <3 Amazon Prime.

Now I must resist getting another board ,___,

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #3 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 20:37:05 »
Tempting, but ugh, must resist and wait patiently for the QFR Stealth to come out >.<
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 21:41:44 »
Has anyone received a QFR with Blues from Amazon that has been unbranded?

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #5 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 21:46:06 »
Just bought one for upcoming Phantom shenanigans. They don't get much cheaper than this.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 23:34:12 »
Great deal. These are worth their weight in switches alone. Also this is the cheapest case for the phantom.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 23 January 2013, 23:47:24 »
i don't "need" another one, but i mean,, aghhhh

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 00:23:28 »
I was planning on getting one of these but I was leaning toward trying out the brown switches. But I could not pass this up so I ordered one. I also freaking love amazon prime. I also jumped on the Phantom train today so I guess if push comes to shove I can use this case for that.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 01:28:14 »
Is this the unbranded case?

I was planning on getting one of these but I was leaning toward trying out the brown switches. But I could not pass this up so I ordered one. I also freaking love amazon prime. I also jumped on the Phantom train today so I guess if push comes to shove I can use this case for that.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 01:54:48 »
Christ, amazon maybe good for you guys but over here that keyboard is like £80 still which equates to $110...grrr :3 don't want to buy because of all the reports of DOA and return costs urh!
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 02:50:03 »
Wow you american are so lucky, here the lowest price is 75€ = 100$
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 03:51:12 »
More jelly plz  :p

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 03:58:40 »
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #14 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 05:11:38 »
Ohhh I had to pull the trigger... just to try out a cherry blues. Impossible to find this at this price (and unbranded) in Australia!
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #15 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 08:55:56 »
I'll be the third to ask this. is this unbranded?

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #16 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:02:29 »
I'll be the third to ask this. is this unbranded?

I can tell you on Friday =D

I think no one has answered this b/c no one knows for sure. You could try asking in the CM Storm Vendor thread
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #17 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:06:41 »
I'll be the third to ask this. is this unbranded?

I can tell you on Friday =D

I think no one has answered this b/c no one knows for sure. You could try asking in the CM Storm Vendor thread

I can wait :D

might get it just for the case. >.<

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #18 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:26:11 »
Great deal indeed. Wow, even BestBuy has it for that price.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #19 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:31:37 »
Great deal indeed. Wow, even BestBuy has it for that price.

Sho nuff :http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Cooler+Master+-+QuickFire+Rapid+SGK-4000-GKCL1-US+Keyboard/5420878.p;jsessionid=6A57A3760AAED3CCF7CFAC32F26B418C.bbolsp-app04-33?id=1218642165095&skuId=5420878&st=quickfire%20rapid&cp=1&lp=4#tab=overview

Wonder if this has anything to do with clearing out old "branded" stock... I don't care if it's branded, thinking about painting it anyway.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #20 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:47:28 »
Branded stock is pretty much cleared out, now it's clearing out grey/silver stock.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #21 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:49:54 »
Clearing out the silver? So future cases will be what, black? Like the MX Red version? I actually kinda like the gray... but black is always cool I guess
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #22 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 09:52:27 »
My understanding is that they'll all be black.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #23 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 10:04:10 »
Christ, amazon maybe good for you guys but over here that keyboard is like £80 still which equates to $110...grrr :3 don't want to buy because of all the reports of DOA and return costs urh!
Wow you american are so lucky, here the lowest price is 75€ = 100$
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #24 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 10:37:21 »
I'm typing on a QFR w/ blues right now... but I think my mother needs a good board. hmm

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #25 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 12:07:53 »
Yeah...I think I'll screw getting a new mouse for now (even though I LOVE the mouse I'm getting). I need a temp case for my Phantom, and I think it would be nice to have those Blues around...
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #26 on: Thu, 24 January 2013, 19:20:11 »
I'll be the third to ask this. is this unbranded?

I can tell you on Friday =D


And I'll be a second data point to this end on Friday as well.

Even if it's branded hopefully the replacement top cases go up soon on the cm-store and aren't cost prohibitive with shipping.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #27 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 01:08:08 »
I'm typing on a QFR w/ blues right now... but I think my mother needs a good board. hmm

and your other family members and friends, cuz you know, everyone must use a mechanical keyboard.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #28 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 02:30:38 »
if these are not branded that is a huge bonus, i got 2 for phantom project

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #29 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 07:39:15 »
anyone know if there's a way to transfer the Mini-USB signal of the Teensey to the Mini-USB signal of the Case? I suppose I could find a way around it, but it would be much preferred if it would work as a Detachable USB.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #30 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 08:20:33 »
Take the QFR's dongle board and attach a mini USB connector on the inside end of the cable to connect to the teensy.

ebay for connectors.

edit:  oh hey look, I saved some in a list..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170577739690?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #31 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 09:31:56 »
Take the QFR's dongle board and attach a mini USB connector on the inside end of the cable to connect to the teensy.

ebay for connectors.

edit:  oh hey look, I saved some in a list..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/170577739690?ssPageName=STRK:MESINDXX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1436.l2649

Thanks for that link. That ebay store is awesome. They have everything and dirt cheap. Do you have any experience with the products they sell? Is the quality decent?
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #32 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 09:37:44 »
I have bought stuff from them, never been disappointed but I'm not going to say it's amazing stuff :)
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #33 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 09:56:30 »
You can buy a miniusb cable and strip off the larger plug and some of the insulation. Then desolder the cables that attack to the miniUSB board on the QFR and replace with your miniusb pigtail. Plug into teensy and go. I think this is what's done with the massdrop ergodox teensy. I don't know what other issues you'll run into, but this, at least, should work. make sure you get the pinout right.

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #34 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 11:35:27 »
I SEE! so you take that end, solder wires from the end of that plug on ebay to the board on the QFR, then plug that plug from ebay into the Teensey, and plus, since it's just soldering, it's reversible! That's awesome!
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« Reply #35 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 13:25:02 »
I made an adapter for mine, but I bought everything off mouser. Very brief process of what you have to do: buy the full male USB mini B assembly that alaricljs just linked, solder 5 tiny wires from the USB to 5 female crimpled pins and find a housing with 2mm pin pitch for the 5 crimpled pins to plug straight into the male pins of the USB PCB of the CM.

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« Reply #36 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 13:34:18 »
would someone care to post that process with pics in another thread? I'm a visual person and not having the 2 components in front of me makes it hard to follow. I think I get the idea, but Pics would be awesome.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #37 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 14:01:19 »
Champloo (bro-in-law) reports that my QFR arrived UNBRANDED
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #38 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 14:44:52 »
I made an adapter for mine, but I bought everything off mouser. Very brief process of what you have to do: buy the full male USB mini B assembly that alaricljs just linked, solder 5 tiny wires from the USB to 5 female crimpled pins and find a housing with 2mm pin pitch for the 5 crimpled pins to plug straight into the male pins of the USB PCB of the CM.

So what does that have to do with CM in particular? You can build an adapter that instead has a female full-size USB connector, so you could hook up any keyboard, even ones with non-detachable cables.

My question is, what's the benefit of daisy-chaining a teensy controller to an already functioning internal keyboard controller ?
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #39 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 14:53:07 »
The QFR has a daughterboard inside that is purely a mini-USB to wires and a connector that is the same as the internal connector on a Filco.  So the adapter is just making it internally also able to connect back to mini USB as found on a teensy.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #40 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 14:55:39 »
So this bypasses the QFR controller, meaning you present the keyboard matrix directly to the teensy? And if so, can you point to a teensly firmware that works and can be hacked?
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #41 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 14:59:17 »
This goes back to earlier discussion about using the QFR case for the upcoming Phantom PCB. A way to keep the detachability of the QFR case while using a teensy

I made an adapter for mine, but I bought everything off mouser. Very brief process of what you have to do: buy the full male USB mini B assembly that alaricljs just linked, solder 5 tiny wires from the USB to 5 female crimpled pins and find a housing with 2mm pin pitch for the 5 crimpled pins to plug straight into the male pins of the USB PCB of the CM.

So what does that have to do with CM in particular? You can build an adapter that instead has a female full-size USB connector, so you could hook up any keyboard, even ones with non-detachable cables.

My question is, what's the benefit of daisy-chaining a teensy controller to an already functioning internal keyboard controller ?
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #42 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 15:04:10 »
So this bypasses the QFR controller, meaning you present the keyboard matrix directly to the teensy? And if so, can you point to a teensly firmware that works and can be hacked?

This makes it possible to put a Phantom board in the QFR case, nothing else.  The controller board on a QFR is in the same place as a Filco, on top of the mainboard nestled in the nav cluster.

And whiskytango, if I read you right you are confusing this with an external adapter.  This is inside the case of a QFR in order to use as much of the original case and its features as possible with a Phantom PCB installed.  Specifically the detachable USB cable.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #43 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 15:41:43 »
So this bypasses the QFR controller, meaning you present the keyboard matrix directly to the teensy? And if so, can you point to a teensly firmware that works and can be hacked?

This makes it possible to put a Phantom board in the QFR case, nothing else.  The controller board on a QFR is in the same place as a Filco, on top of the mainboard nestled in the nav cluster.

And whiskytango, if I read you right you are confusing this with an external adapter.  This is inside the case of a QFR in order to use as much of the original case and its features as possible with a Phantom PCB installed.  Specifically the detachable USB cable.

I thought that's what I said. To use a detachable USB cable to connect to the QFR case with a Phantom pcb inside the same way you would connect to the stock QFR instead of having to run a cable through the case and plugging directly into the teensy. I was just trying to point out that this discussion was Phantom related and not necessarily related to a stock QFR. You stated it much more clearly though.

Edit: And I think WFD was talking about making an adapter inside the case instead of desoldering or cutting wires. Like a wiring harness, right?
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #44 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 15:50:34 »
Thank you both, I thought this was about making the QFR work with a teensy, but now I realize you are only interested in the QFR to throw away the insides and just keep the case for a phantom :-)
Sorry for the confusion!
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #45 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 15:53:55 »
Thank you both, I thought this was about making the QFR work with a teensy, but now I realize you are only interested in the QFR to throw away the insides and just keep the case for a phantom :-)
Sorry for the confusion!
Oh, I'm not COMPLETELY interested in that :cool:, I'm using it as a TEMPORARY case for my Phantom while leaving the PCB, switches, and plate somewhere safe. Once I get a custom case for my custom keyboard, I'm migrating my QFR back into it's case.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #46 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 15:58:17 »
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That's my plan too.
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #47 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 16:08:09 »
Strapped for money (near $150 for a couple sets of keycaps is a hair much) plus not wanting to spend $150 on a Filco makes this the perfect case for me :D Who knows? Maybe I'll end up equipping the second Klaxon set onto my QFR (Plus, there's one family member who uses a desktop that's lacking a Mechanical keyboard...May pass my Leopold onto her because she would hate blues (she thought the Browns in my keyboard were loud :confused:)
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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #48 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 16:15:01 »
If anyone is looking to sell their naked QFR after they take the case, I'd be interested.

Offline bavman

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Re: QFR with blues for $55 on Amazon
« Reply #49 on: Fri, 25 January 2013, 16:42:00 »
mine arrived today unbranded as well! sweeeet

The blues on it are definitely quieter than my filco and they feel a little better. Maybe just cause its new?
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