Leopold uses multiple plates / stabilizer spacing on FC750R keyboards
Posted: 24 Mar 2015, 13:26
Hello,
For some time now I have been planning and wishing to get my hands on a Leopold FC750R and I have looked at way to many pictures with this keyboard.
Today, with the involuntary help of the GH user intelli78, I have noticed that Leopold has used multiple plates / spacebar stabilizer spacing on the FC750R keyboards:
This is the image I took from a /r/mk post, made 9 months ago:
There is also this image made almost a year ago on a GH topic, which shows the same stabilizer spacing:
While asking a question on GH regarding stabilizer spacing on GMK spacebars on the GMK Hyperfuse groupbuy, intelli78 replied that FC750R keyboards have a standard spacing and showed me this image, made by the GH user The1oneWolf:
As you can see, the spacebar stabilizer spacing is different in the image from The1oneWolf, unlike the other 2 older images.
Also, if you look carefully, you can see, through the plate cutout under the spacebar, that even the PCB is different:
On The1oneWolf's keyboard, the name of the keyboard is marked on the PCB:
In the older images the PCB doesn't have these markings:
Could it be that Leopold has made changes between the different batches of the FC750R keyboards? Also, did they decide to rename the new ones with wider spacebar stabilizer spacing and different PCB, and call it FC750RT instead of FC750R??
What to you guys and girls think?
Also, do any of you have any contacts at Leopold to ask them this? I know that there are some GH vendors around that sell Leopolds, like HendyZone, but I do not know any that hang around on deskthority?
P.S.:
I also made a topic on GH, if you're interested: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=70254.0
and on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... nt_plates/
For some time now I have been planning and wishing to get my hands on a Leopold FC750R and I have looked at way to many pictures with this keyboard.
Today, with the involuntary help of the GH user intelli78, I have noticed that Leopold has used multiple plates / spacebar stabilizer spacing on the FC750R keyboards:
This is the image I took from a /r/mk post, made 9 months ago:
There is also this image made almost a year ago on a GH topic, which shows the same stabilizer spacing:
While asking a question on GH regarding stabilizer spacing on GMK spacebars on the GMK Hyperfuse groupbuy, intelli78 replied that FC750R keyboards have a standard spacing and showed me this image, made by the GH user The1oneWolf:
As you can see, the spacebar stabilizer spacing is different in the image from The1oneWolf, unlike the other 2 older images.
Also, if you look carefully, you can see, through the plate cutout under the spacebar, that even the PCB is different:
On The1oneWolf's keyboard, the name of the keyboard is marked on the PCB:
In the older images the PCB doesn't have these markings:
Could it be that Leopold has made changes between the different batches of the FC750R keyboards? Also, did they decide to rename the new ones with wider spacebar stabilizer spacing and different PCB, and call it FC750RT instead of FC750R??
What to you guys and girls think?
Also, do any of you have any contacts at Leopold to ask them this? I know that there are some GH vendors around that sell Leopolds, like HendyZone, but I do not know any that hang around on deskthority?
P.S.:
I also made a topic on GH, if you're interested: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=70254.0
and on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeybo ... nt_plates/