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untold nest Nov 3, 2023, 3:48 AM

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Hello Wooting Team!
I'm here to talk about the materials being used for the lekker switches and address the issue with them.
I haven't really caught up with the history of lekker switches but I'm guessing you guys were struggling with making the lekker switches and decided to go with gateron magnetic switches and change the color.
Earlier I was discussing about the material of the lekker's top housing that could possibly cause the switches to sound chattery or bad. I don't know if this was intentional but I do think if you were to make a new lekker, you should change the top housing material into something like nylon (Using Oil Kings as a example). You could go back with the box stem as well although i don't really know the benefits of it (Possibly reducing stem wobble and probably dust proof?).
Anyways If you're reading this thank you for your time.

TenZ Jr out

civic spruce Nov 5, 2023, 11:19 PM

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Agree. Box stem, POM preferably… would be great

peak pivot Nov 6, 2023, 7:22 AM

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How it started before Wooting went to Gateron.
https://wooting.io/post/introducing-the-lekker-switch

Introducing the Lekker switch

Moving away from Flaretech switches, a new and improved way to implement analog input was through hall effect sensors. We decided to explore this idea and produce our own key cap.

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I guess that was a collaboration with HUANO, but I forgot. There were some issues and the development was already heavily delayed. They switched to Gateron because these weren't overcome within the desired time frame.

tender skiff Nov 6, 2023, 7:45 AM

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All I remember is Calder saying that box stem didn't work for Lekker. I don't remember the details.

civic spruce Nov 6, 2023, 12:18 PM

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ohhh 😦 that's a pitty

untold nest Nov 6, 2023, 3:36 PM

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tender skiff All I remember is Calder saying that box stem didn't work for Lekker. I don't re...

Lemme guess
Top housing mold

craggy viper Nov 6, 2023, 3:44 PM

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Akko has a magnetic switch with a box stem iirc I don't know if they're selling it though

shut gull Nov 6, 2023, 7:14 PM

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Nylon top and bottom housing with POM stem would be ideal for sound profile although I'm not sure how a hall effect switch would sound considering the bottom housing will always have the hole for the magnet.

untold nest Nov 9, 2023, 9:54 PM

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shut gull Nylon top and bottom housing with POM stem would be ideal for sound profile alth...

I personally think the bottom housing and stems are fine
But to me or pretty much everybody, the top housings are the biggest problem. It’s cool to have different materials other than polycarbonate for all the parts, probably try to get the good quality materials looking from other switches.

pseudo ginkgo Nov 10, 2023, 12:54 AM

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I thought magnet switches is gaterons patent is it not?

untold nest Nov 10, 2023, 12:58 AM

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pseudo ginkgo I thought magnet switches is gaterons patent is it not?

Yeah they made it
but if i recall Wooting was struggling to make their lekker switches with HUANO or some company so they went to gateron and like Rocky_4 said "these werent overcome within the desired time frame"

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the switches was like black and dark blue or some shit idk

ocean canopy Nov 10, 2023, 4:42 AM

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the huano switches had "the flaw" of gateron just aligning better with our vision for how the switch should perform

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