deskthority

Just a piece of Kapton or super 33 tape?


I guess in this case it doesn't really matter, any insulating tape will do. And you don't really need the high temperature resistance that kapton tape is famous for. I'd use kapton tape because that's what it's already supposed to come with. Also ...

@Runslikeapenguin

The 0s in signal level monitor mean that you have a row shorted to ground.

The fact that it's intermittent means that most likely the ribbon cable solder joints are poking through the tape that's on them, and shorting to the back case.

Open up the keyboard, and put extra ...

i just plugged the keyboard into a USB port and a bunch of the keys are working again. The unpressed keys are not working but the number values have changed.

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Seconds later as i was looking at the signal level monitor and they all dropped off again.

stopped working.JPG ...

I followed all of the assembly directions from the modelfkeyboard.com site and so far i have no been able to correct any of the issues. I downloaded the pandrew xwhatsit app to check the key tester and found the following.
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I may have missed some of these fixes but the thread is 255 pages ...

New member here.

I got into a conversation with a kid i know who told me he preordered one of these keyboards and he was super disappointed in it when it came. He said it was non functional out of the box and he gave up trying to fix it. I'm a bit more adventurous when it comes to ripping stuff ...