Hello, I have recently gotten sick so, having some spare time at my hands i've decided to have a go at restoring one of my weirder boards, this thing:
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It has the "monogram" switches, a clicky variant, very interesting and pleasant to me but they were a bit scratchy, so i decided to desolder everything, take apart, ultrasonic clean and lube with just a little bit of trybosis 3203 (i tried krytox and it made it worse), seems like these switches need thinner lube, trybosis has worked really well, definitely an improvement. Retrobrighted the keys (very nice doubleshots by the way), the case is very yellow and i'm not sure if it will come out that good but we'll see.
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Keys have brightened up nicely
The switches were quite hard to put back together, as the contacts are like simplified alps, separate pieces of metal, and you have to kind of, guide them into the top housing and be careful when pushing the housings back together, but it's still much easier than simplified alps, because everything is just bigger. Now here's the kind of interesting bit:
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The board has a place for a piezo buzzer, it looks like it requires another transistor, which i am not sure but could be the same as Q1, pictured here:
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And two additional resistors. I figure they wouldn't bother to flash different firmware for the buzzer/not buzzer version of this board most likely, so it wouldn't hurt to try soldering that hardware back on
Does anybody have a simmilar board, but with a buzzer, or, help me figure out the values for the resistors somehow? It would be quite funny to make this thing beep.
Cheers.
