Help Identify Unusual Click Clack sprung foil ALPS keys on keyboard
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
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The keyboard circuit board is marked as ALPs with script logo.I really like the feel of the keys and have been searching online for reference but could not find another set.The keys are only held on by the metal bracket directly above the circuit board which appears to have gold plated terminals.Each key has 2 pins on the metal spring foil which short out the the terminals on the circuit board when depressed.The switch makes a click and then a clack.
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- seebart
- Offtopicthority Instigator
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Rotation
- Main mouse: Steelseries Sensei
- Favorite switch: IBM capacitive buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0061
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Great find. Don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. Nice.
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
Here are photos of the keys
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
It is not a beamspring switch.It sounds and works more like a click clack toy Here is a link to a youtube video of the click clack toys I was referring to https://youtu.be/7hs2qioZUcoMuirium wrote: ↑Click Clack? I'd like to see Clack Factory branch out a bit, but beamsprings first, please!
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- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
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Neat, I've never seen these before.
It's a sort of dome switch. And I've never seen this before
Are there any numbers on the pcb to identify it? Usually Alps has at least one or two.
It's a sort of dome switch. And I've never seen this before
Are there any numbers on the pcb to identify it? Usually Alps has at least one or two.
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
Here is a video of the switch https://youtu.be/gXmMrqt4-O4
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
I have tried searching all the numbers but could not find any referenceHaaTa wrote: ↑Neat, I've never seen these before.
It's a sort of dome switch. And I've never seen this before
Are there any numbers on the pcb to identify it? Usually Alps has at least one or two.
TA655 TA030 P001 264077A-S-BO on board and 676794B 4N000535 stickers on metal pan
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmMrqt4-O4[/youtube]
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
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Looks like an earlier version of this:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_plate_spring
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_plate_spring
- Nuum
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: KBD8X Mk I (60g Clears), Phantom (Nixdorf Blacks)
- Main mouse: Corsair M65 PRO RGB
- Favorite switch: 60g MX Clears/Brown Alps/Buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0084
That's what I thought of, too, but it looks very different. The activation mechanism seems similar, though.
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
Here is a link to a YouTube video of the switch.It is larger and quite different from the early Alps plate switch.It is a very simple switch that works unbelievably well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmMrqt4-O4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmMrqt4-O4
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
That's a pretty neat switch. Likely has a nice sharp tactile point.
Alps probably stopped making them because of reliability issues with the contact mechanism (as it keeps striking the pcb contacts). And,
Question, would you be willing at some point to lend me a single switch so I can measure a force curve?
Alps probably stopped making them because of reliability issues with the contact mechanism (as it keeps striking the pcb contacts). And,
Regardless, a really cool find.<Over^Kill> Debounce is prolly high as snoop dog
Question, would you be willing at some point to lend me a single switch so I can measure a force curve?
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- Location: CYPRUS
- Main keyboard: G80-1800
- Main mouse: MICROSOFT
- Favorite switch: MX BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
It strikes the pcb with quite a bit of force.There is no way to control the pressure as it builds up and snaps down .
Here is a video of the snap action https://youtu.be/o7blSSOU9Y0
Here is a video of the snap action https://youtu.be/o7blSSOU9Y0