Royal Kludge

[nightdriver]

ended up agreeing to keep it at a lower price because it seems they really did not want to pay return shipping on a defective item.  anyway, popped my symbiosis keycaps on there this morning and was surprised to find that the stabs are actually lubed!  don't think i've seen them come stock like that before...

[unoab]

popped my symbiosis keycaps on there this morning

Huh?  symbiosis is shipping already from PMK? neeeeed pictures....

[nightdriver]

yeah i got mine this morning!  posted a pic in the "what did you get in the mail today?" thread.  guess i'll repost here since they are in fact on my RK:

[berserkfan]

ended up agreeing to keep it at a lower price because it seems they really did not want to pay return shipping on a defective item.  anyway, popped my symbiosis keycaps on there this morning and was surprised to find that the stabs are actually lubed!  don't think i've seen them come stock like that before...

ok, now that you've settled with the seller are you going to change the LED then? I am curious, since they are RGB leds and presumably more of a challenge to change.... also want to see some keyboard porn.

[nightdriver]

ended up agreeing to keep it at a lower price because it seems they really did not want to pay return shipping on a defective item.  anyway, popped my symbiosis keycaps on there this morning and was surprised to find that the stabs are actually lubed!  don't think i've seen them come stock like that before...

ok, now that you've settled with the seller are you going to change the LED then? I am curious, since they are RGB leds and presumably more of a challenge to change.... also want to see some keyboard porn.

i've pondered it but the fact that it's an RGB LED gives me a little pause.  will take pics if i do go for it, though!  wonder how i would find an exact replacement.  i guess it's even possible it's just a bad solder joint or something, who knows?

[unoab]

yeah i got mine this morning!  posted a pic in the "what did you get in the mail today?" thread.  guess i'll repost here since they are in fact on my RK:

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Ah didn't look at that thread, but they look great, and mine may go on my RK too when they arrive since my phantom may be heading to work.

And wondering on the LEDs too, I got one of the non-backlit ones and opted for the better keycaps, but I may need to pop mine open and see if they have all the respective holes for the LEDs in case I change my mind later down the road.

[nightdriver]

i knew that i'm never happy with stock keycaps anyway, so why not go for the bells and whistles?

[dante]

I think I might like the RK 45g.  I could never type on Topre 45g as fast as MX Browns and always felt maybe they were a tad stiffer than they needed to be.

I like that the RK comes pre-dampened, has costar stabilizers (easy to lube), stock POM, and has a prewired cable.

The next immediate keyboard I'm going to buy is a toss up between the RK 45g and Topre 104 Pro 30g LE ... it sounds crazy I know ... The 30g uniform Topre is rare ... but the RK 45g is $300+ cheaper ...

[unoab]

i knew that i'm never happy with stock keycaps anyway, so why not go for the bells and whistles?

but the stock caps are actually not that bad, here is a photo of the back of them next to some of the hacked by geeks caps:


And I actually got curious and took apart my RK without the backlighting to see how different it is.  It looks like it would be way more work to add backlighting after the fact than the cost differential if you are thinking about adding it later.  There are 3 SMD resistors per LED that are not populated, the RGB LEDs, based on the pads I saw are probably little 4 pad SMD LEDs, something like this.  The controller parts for controlling the LEDs are also depopped (12 transistors and resistors RGB x 4 backlight zones), and the connector for the additional cable is not there either.  I took some photos for the hell of it since I don't feel I will be opening it again (the 3 indicator LEDs are through hole and go through the rubber membrane, so it cant be removed from the PCB unless you desolder them first, which I didn't feel like doing)..

[MigZm]

I'm having some bizarre issues with mine RC930-87 55g. It works just fine for a while but then, all of a sudden, it starts registering random key presses alone or multiple keys when I press a single one. Sometimes it just won't register anything unless I press the key super hard.

This is an examp0;le olf a sentence written u7sing the keyboard. According to switch hitter p0;ressing p0; triggers ;p and 0p.

Any ideas? Seems pretty ****ed to me.

Edit: If I unplug and plug it again, it goes back to working fine for another while.

[tomdubliner]

Hi forum,

don't know if this is the right place for my question, hopefully somebody can help.

I've got few days ago my RG-987, that's the RGB TKL Royal Kludge. It works fantastically well and I'm very happy, however the software to customize
the lighting does not work. I'm on Win 10/64bit, when running the Tiny87 application it tells me that there is no keyboard connected (while indeed it is).

I've tried to run the app in compatibility mode with same result, also tried to run it within a VM running Win XP with same result (I thought would never work as the hardware is the same, but was worth a try)

anybody got any idea ?

thanks
Tom