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Offline typo

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Cherry comments on RGB switches
« on: Sun, 30 July 2017, 23:34:21 »
They said that the 3mm Led's were a stop gap solution and never intended to be the final solution. So why does the MX 6.0 have 3mm Led's?
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Offline dante

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Re: Cherry comments on RGB switches
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 31 July 2017, 13:53:51 »
Quote from: typo on Sun, 30 July 2017, 23:34:21
They said that the 3mm Led's were a stop gap solution and never intended to be the final solution. So why does the MX 6.0 have 3mm Led's?

The MX 6.0 is not a new product; It may have been released in 2015. It still uses single color LED and painted backlit keycaps (yuck.)
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Offline typo

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Re: Cherry comments on RGB switches
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 31 July 2017, 23:57:02 »
True enough. I do not like SMD. That is just me though.
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Offline Findecanor

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Re: Cherry comments on RGB switches
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 01 August 2017, 09:15:56 »
I don't like light-bleed. The Flaretech switches use a third solution: SMD LED on the PCB but with black housing and a transparent lens for the light. Instead of a 3 mm high 3 mm wide rounded cylinder, the light comes out only through a pinprick at the top of the switch. All lightbleed is from reflections inside the keycap.
I wonder how difficult it would be to make a lens insert for SMD LEDs and Cherry MX or some clone. Perhaps the bottom would have to be translucent with the top being opaque.
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