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Offline bebopson

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Hi from DC
« on: Tue, 12 February 2013, 23:39:06 »
Hey folks, I'm a mechanical keyboard noob.  I've got a Cherry MY 1800 USB, which is actually a point of sale keyboard.  Sort of a misinformed purchase, but I'm beginning to get a feel for it.  Overall it's too stiff for my liking, so I just got the Plum 96.  The Plum 96 works ok with USB and I like the Cherry Brown switches.  However, I haven't gotten the wireless working yet.  The receiver nub looks a bit cheap.  Hopefully I just need a new set of batteries. If that doesn't work I guess I'll chalk it up to experience.  Don't know how realistic it is to mail something back to China.  Any idea if I could solder a replacement transceiver onto the PCB?
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Re: Hi from DC
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 12 February 2013, 23:59:04 »
Welcome to Geekhack!

An interesting start to your collection ;)

Worst case if you can't fix the Plum, someone around here will probably buy it from you.
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Offline bebopson

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Re: Hi from DC
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 17 February 2013, 20:03:13 »
Hey All,
I got instructions from the aliexpress seller on how to configure the wireless and it's working fine now.  I haven't seen instructions for this on gh, so I figured I'dd add them here to share with other plum mx 96 owners.  Here are the instructions straight from man leung:

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1.leave USB Composite Device near to your keyboard, and put the switch at bottom of keyboard, -0- to -_-, when you do this, ESC key will twinkling slowly
2.Press Fn+ F12, leave them after ESC key twinkling faster,now put USB Composite Device into your Laptop. Once ESC off, then you could use wireless funtion.

That's it!  It worked for both Windows 7 and Arch Linux.
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Re: Hi from DC
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 18 February 2013, 15:50:02 »
Quote from: bebopson on Sun, 17 February 2013, 20:03:13
Hey All,
I got instructions from the aliexpress seller on how to configure the wireless and it's working fine now.  I haven't seen instructions for this on gh, so I figured I'dd add them here to share with other plum mx 96 owners.  Here are the instructions straight from man leung:

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1.leave USB Composite Device near to your keyboard, and put the switch at bottom of keyboard, -0- to -_-, when you do this, ESC key will twinkling slowly
2.Press Fn+ F12, leave them after ESC key twinkling faster,now put USB Composite Device into your Laptop. Once ESC off, then you could use wireless funtion.

That's it!  It worked for both Windows 7 and Arch Linux.

Wireless? gah... the latency :D
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