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shutterspeed
post May 19 2014, 07:46 AM

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Hi mechanical keyboard enthusiasts.

I just entered mechanical keyboard world. Bought my first new mechanical keyboard a few days ago. It's with blue switches. It was a fun typing experience until I typed on some keys that did not produce the same sound and did not felt like others. There seems to be a problem (under my understanding) with some of the switches/keys.

From what I know, generally, blue switches should produce that click sound. But some keys on my keyboard have mushy sound, almost like no click at all.

I have a video of the situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSJj1un7bc

In this video, I recorded the F3 key sound, which did not click like F2 and F4.

This is my first mechanical keyboard so I have no practical experience dealing with this. I'm hoping long time users of mechanical keyboard can shed some light on this.

Do you think it's a defective switch? Should I send for a replacement?
shutterspeed
post May 19 2014, 08:03 PM

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QUOTE(joonwei23 @ May 19 2014, 08:37 AM)
Yeah, get it sorted while your warranty is still available.
some blue switches tend not to click for some reason. probably a bad batch.  sad.gif
however there are cases where the switch would click after some time after prolong usage.

For additional reading, similar case to yours. - http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=58290.0
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Thanks joonwei23. In that case, I decided to just go straight for a replacement since it's still a few days since unbox. It's very unfortunate to experience my first mechanical keyboard with this defect. I have to say, this Corsair keyboard disappointed me a lot because for other keys that do click, still there are a lot of inconsistency. Sometimes they click sometimes they don't. Even though I fully released the key before pressing them again.


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