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Offline Ducas

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Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 14:48:37 »
Hi earth people,

I bought a Das Keyboard a few years ago and eventually plugged it into a computer with a faulty PSU, which caused it to start behaving oddly. It's finally stopped working entirely, when I plug it in all 3 toggle lights light up but it doesn't function otherwise. I'm assuming some part of the PCB is fried, and I'm not so advanced with soldering that I think I could pull the chips off and replace them, even if they didn't require flashing, which they probably would.

tl;dr: I was hoping someone here could point me to a place where I could find a PCB that will serve as a replacement for a CST-104-DAS_Daughter PCB v1.3 - I've spent a fair amount of time looking around the internet and I'm always eventually linked to here.

Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 15:07:28 »
Maybe look for another used one on here and ebay etc, for a good price and sell your current one for parts to help offset the cost of replacement.

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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 15:12:58 »
I wonder if Rosewill controllers are the same. Could you get a picture of the controller for us?

Offline Ducas

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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 16:09:41 »
OR.... you could just buy another keyboard? what better reason? :D

Just don't buy another DAS, because the new ones are not "for certain "costar"  AND.... they might've really downgraded in quality to keep prices competitive... with the release of Rosewills...

Offline Ducas

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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 17:34:35 »
I have since bought a new keyboard, but money's an issue and it seems a shame to waste a perfectly good keyboard because the PCB is broken.

Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Replacement PCB for Das Keyboard
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 16 March 2013, 17:42:07 »
Many people will be happy to take it off your hands to use various components in other keyboards. Even while broken/dead I figure you should be able to get at least $40 out of it, probably more if you took it apart and sold everything seperate, switches, plate, pcb?, casebody?, keycaps...