Bit of a pickle

[Muirium]

Ordered 120 switches, 60 white and 10 of each of the others, and I'm gonna join the Phantom plate group buy (unless you guys can recommend another plate to go with the QFR) - making a solid zone weighted Cherry!!

Beware that MX white is different from clear. They may look almost identical, but whites are clicky like blues, only softened; while clears are tactile with no click. Whites are quite nice, actually.

The Phantom sounds a decent idea, as you want to get pretty custom. I don't know much about it specifically, but it surely offers more to a modder than a commercial keyboard's PCB.

[Ekaros]

Ordered 120 switches, 60 white and 10 of each of the others, and I'm gonna join the Phantom plate group buy (unless you guys can recommend another plate to go with the QFR) - making a solid zone weighted Cherry!!

Beware that MX white is different from clear. They may look almost identical, but whites are clicky like blues, only softened; while clears are tactile with no click. Whites are quite nice, actually.

The Phantom sounds a decent idea, as you want to get pretty custom. I don't know much about it specifically, but it surely offers more to a modder than a commercial keyboard's PCB.

MX White acctuation is lower than Blue or?

I wish I had the money to spare to mod those old Cherry boards I bought...

[Muirium]

Hmm. According to the Wiki maybe white is the same weight, and maybe it is heavier. I've only played with a single switch (courtesy of Mr. Interface's switch sampler) and found it a pleasant quiet alternative to blue. Haven't yet actually typed on a keyboard of them. Certainly lighter than green though.

As for activation point: same as blue and green. They all use the same mechanism. Green is a like blue but a heavier spring. While white is a factory lubed blue.

[Ekaros]

Have to find a hundred at some point then... And some PS/2 cables...

[IonutZ]

I just bought 7 keyboards for 15 bucks that are completely useless, if you pay me $5 + shipping I'll send you 5 PS2 cables haha

[Muirium]

Male PS/2 on both ends? I bought one of those on the cheap recently for a Tipro (which involves modding it anyway). Oddly enough, every PS/2 keyboard I ever come across has a fixed cable or something funky on the keyboard's end. Seems like removable cables were just a little fancy.

[IonutZ]

No just one end PS2, one end with no termination... that would be something, I haven't yet owned a keyboard with a removable PS2 port.

[Muirium]

Standard fitting on a Tipro is two! Well, one of them is a PS/2 passthrough port so you can chain keyboards. The master socket to connect back to your computer is actually proprietary, but can be used with a standard PS/2 cable once hacked with pliers.

[Ekaros]

I bought two old Cherry boards with DIN-5 connectors, so to get some use I should replace that with PS/2...

[IonutZ]

If you live in the US I'll snip a couple of chords off some keyboards I don't need and send them to you, if not, you'll have to cover shipping haha.