Haven't received mine yet, but anyone know what the compatibility is like with holtites/Kailh PCB sockets? I'm not gonna have access to a soldering gun for another month or two
You can't put kailh sockets on this, dude. You need special pcbs for those.
Yeah, that's why I asked---since I don't know if this PCB was made with Kailh sockets or holtites in mind, and haven't seen it mentioned, I figured I'd see if someone else had tried.
Holtites are a no go for this board. I tried the ones from Zeal and they fall right out. Cut to me buying a soldering station and learning how to solder. Lol. This damn hobby.
You know holtites are supposed to be soldered in, right?
Hey HADHAYOSH, wait a moment before you do a mess.
1) Holtites for switches that you have are
NOT supposed to be soldered in. Usually these holtites fits or not fits inside the hole, the whole point of using these sockets is to not solder anything (eventually just few holtites on half-holes necessary for multiple layouts)
2) Said that, you can actually solder them, many people does that when they discover that the pcb doesn't support holtites without soldering, however these needs to be soldered in a particular.
3) Since you said it is your first soldering experience, i really don't suggest to solder holtites, you might do a big mess. That type of holtites are not closed on the back, so if you solder these sockets like you solder switches, you will most likely fill them with solder on the internal part of the holtite, making it unusable and difficult to remove.
4) If you want to proceed, i can explain you how you are supposed to solder holtites without doing a big mess, but again i do NOT suggest to do so, unless you have a lot of time (200 holtites soldered in a particular way) and have a good soldering experience already. Let me know.