Question for everyone with a Focus FK-555 (need info)
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Could everyone with a Focus FK-555 please tell me what kind of cable and connector theirs uses, as well as which switches? I'm trying to work something out for a video.
Cheers!
Cheers!
- Polecat
- Location: Downstream from Silicon Valley
- Main keyboard: Monterey K104 Industrial Gray
- Main mouse: Logitech Optical
- Favorite switch: Early Alps SKCM
- DT Pro Member: -
I don't own one of these, but I have seven FK-555s in my Focus database, including one that's Northgate-branded. Six of those have blue Alps SKCM switches; the seventh has cyan Omron B3G-S. I didn't save cable or connector information, but I'd be surprised to see anything other than a DIN5 and a coiled cord.
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
You'd be surprised xD . That's why I'm asking!Polecat wrote: ↑14 Apr 2019, 19:55I don't own one of these, but I have seven FK-555s in my Focus database, including one that's Northgate-branded. Six of those have blue Alps SKCM switches; the seventh has cyan Omron B3G-S. I didn't save cable or connector information, but I'd be surprised to see anything other than a DIN5 and a coiled cord.
- ZedTheMan
- Location: Central US
- Main keyboard: IModel F77/IBM 3101/Omnikey 102/96Kee
- Main mouse: Logitech G430/Logitech M570/Kensington Expert
- Favorite switch: Beamsprings. Alps SKCM Blue, Capacitive Buckling S
- DT Pro Member: 0219
Well, the one I WAS going to get before the mail lost it had blue Alps and a DIN plug, so, standard AT connector with AT/XT switch. Coiled cable. Pad printed caps.
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- Location: United Kingdom, Bristol
- Main keyboard: IBM, DELL
- Main mouse: WMO
- Favorite switch: ALPS
- DT Pro Member: -
https://i.postimg.cc/DzFkPDSy/3210842703.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/tgT0c6NL/27382428-632042.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/s2NFC2n1/32187429389-4.jpg
Focus PCB - Blue Alps / DIN 5-pin / Pad printed caps
Cheers T.
https://i.postimg.cc/tgT0c6NL/27382428-632042.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/s2NFC2n1/32187429389-4.jpg
Focus PCB - Blue Alps / DIN 5-pin / Pad printed caps
Cheers T.
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Well, if you have it disassembled anyway, could you post a picture of the quality assurance sticker? Thanks for the detailed pictures!
EDIT: the QC sticker on the PCB, I mean.
EDIT: the QC sticker on the PCB, I mean.
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- Location: United Kingdom, Bristol
- Main keyboard: IBM, DELL
- Main mouse: WMO
- Favorite switch: ALPS
- DT Pro Member: -
https://i.postimg.cc/KjwtMjPK/201904172 ... G-0725.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/BvpDCM5f/201904172 ... G-0734.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MTrQCHrs/201904172 ... G-0732.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nVgmTsmr/201904172 ... G-0735.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/CKhndk3P/201904172 ... G-0728.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/j5CW4Kdy/201904172 ... G-0737.jpg
There you go T. Crack on bud.
https://i.postimg.cc/BvpDCM5f/201904172 ... G-0734.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MTrQCHrs/201904172 ... G-0732.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nVgmTsmr/201904172 ... G-0735.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/CKhndk3P/201904172 ... G-0728.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/j5CW4Kdy/201904172 ... G-0737.jpg
There you go T. Crack on bud.
- Noobmaen
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Main keyboard: FC660M MX Brown, HHKB, IBM6580
- Main mouse: Logitech G502
- Favorite switch: Beamspring, Vintage MX brown, Cap. BS
- DT Pro Member: -
Here's mine with skcm blue, caps are pad printed as well:
https://imgur.com/a/5AnD5pN
Edit: seems like mine has an external ROM unlike c.p's
https://imgur.com/a/5AnD5pN
Edit: seems like mine has an external ROM unlike c.p's
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Lately an Ortek 142 though I swap out boards
- Main mouse: logitech
- Favorite switch: buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0239
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- //gainsborough
- ALPSの日常
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: some kind of alps keyboard
- Favorite switch: clk: SKCM blue, lin: SKCL cream, tac: SKCM cream
- DT Pro Member: 0188
Here's some pics of mine:
https://imgur.com/a/5zs71oq
Mine uses a 5-pin DIN connector and has blue alps. The original caps are pad printed, but I switched the alphas with PBT caps from a 5140.
https://imgur.com/a/5zs71oq
Mine uses a 5-pin DIN connector and has blue alps. The original caps are pad printed, but I switched the alphas with PBT caps from a 5140.
Last edited by //gainsborough on 20 Apr 2019, 23:00, edited 1 time in total.
- //gainsborough
- ALPSの日常
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: some kind of alps keyboard
- Favorite switch: clk: SKCM blue, lin: SKCL cream, tac: SKCM cream
- DT Pro Member: 0188
Nice!
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- Location: china
- Main keyboard: cherry mx
- Main mouse: nothing
- Favorite switch: beam spring
- DT Pro Member: -
- abrahamstechnology
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Laser with SMK Cherry mount
- Main mouse: Mitsumi ECM-S3902
- Favorite switch: Alps and Alps clones
- DT Pro Member: 0212
How do you find these? I can't seem to find used keyboards on Taobao.
- ZedTheMan
- Location: Central US
- Main keyboard: IModel F77/IBM 3101/Omnikey 102/96Kee
- Main mouse: Logitech G430/Logitech M570/Kensington Expert
- Favorite switch: Beamsprings. Alps SKCM Blue, Capacitive Buckling S
- DT Pro Member: 0219
I wish I could see the price of shipping or if they ship internationally. At a first glance that actually seems like a really good deal.
- swampangel
- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: Northgate Omnikey 101
- DT Pro Member: -
I used taobao agent Superbuy to buy a couple of AT101s in the fall and it cost about $80CAD to have them shipped to Canada. Worked out to about $65CAD/board total, which is sadly pretty competitive.
Supposedly it will be cheaper if you buy direct, but I haven't tried it http://www.howtotao.com/buy-from-taobao/