Monterey's source of Alps clones
Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 22:00
I've been corresponding with Monterey at last. While they don't know who made the blue switches (and they rule out Chicony), their Alps clone vendor was Hua-Jie (Taiwan) Corp.
It appears that the keyboard switch factory is or was Xiamen Himake, AKA Himake Electronics Co, Ltd. Himake's spec sheets are literally a copy of, or the source of, Xiang Min's spec sheets, and Xiang Min's plastics factory was Xiamen Fulltech Precision Plastic Co. Ltd.
So one either company copied the other, or they were connected at some stage. I've e-mailed Hua-Jie to see what they know.
Curiously, their LED switch has a yellow stem, like the ones found in many Focus boards.
This is why I asked previously for people to submit photos of switch internals — it allows us to identify exactly what switches were used in which board, and to build up patterns. I'd ask Focus, too, but I'm still getting this:
Argh!!
It appears that the keyboard switch factory is or was Xiamen Himake, AKA Himake Electronics Co, Ltd. Himake's spec sheets are literally a copy of, or the source of, Xiang Min's spec sheets, and Xiang Min's plastics factory was Xiamen Fulltech Precision Plastic Co. Ltd.
So one either company copied the other, or they were connected at some stage. I've e-mailed Hua-Jie to see what they know.
Curiously, their LED switch has a yellow stem, like the ones found in many Focus boards.
This is why I asked previously for people to submit photos of switch internals — it allows us to identify exactly what switches were used in which board, and to build up patterns. I'd ask Focus, too, but I'm still getting this:
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