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MightyJabba
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Nov 6, 2018
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I just got my set today and since Pulse was essentially what got me interested in mechanical keyboards, I was really looking forward to it. Overall, it does not disappoint. It looks great on my board, although the different finish on the space bar was a little surprising. After I remembered they existed, I tried out the shine-through novelties, but they don't seem very impressive. Is this the intended effect?
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Nov 6, 2018
MiTo
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Nov 6, 2018
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MightyJabbaThe novelties with transparent legends are more like a curiosity/flair thing for those who asked for it to be added (note how they are represented in the child kit render). Because of how the LEDs are positioned differently on every keyboard, it’s not possible to manufacture perfectly backlit keycaps. Unfortunately we don’t have a way to achieve that perfect backlighting seen on Razer products for example, but I added this keycap anyway so people could try it out!
Nov 6, 2018
cijanzen
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Nov 6, 2018
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MiToThe way I saw it was as an experiment and as such would possibly not work out. I would imagine with smd under switch leds might have more uniform lighting and because of the distance might not show the doubleshot mold. Plenty of non-shinethrough novelties to try!
Nov 6, 2018
equalunique
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Nov 6, 2018
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MightyJabbaWoah. I did not now there were any shine-through SA keycaps in existence. That is really neat.
Nov 6, 2018
HerpDerpenberg
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Nov 7, 2018
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cijanzenIt won't really matter where the light is, you don't see the "grid" on SMD lights as much. The center stem on these is solid, so you will never get a full illuminated legend. You can see in the photo above the dim part of the legend due to the opaque stem. Now, if they were able to make the legend/stem as one piece, to sort of light pipe it to the legend, it might have looked better. In the end, the result isn't that great. If this was just an experiment, I wouldn't really recommend this execution be done on future sets.
Nov 7, 2018
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