While most people do not spend much time, thinking about the keys that they press all day, enthusiasts of the mechanical keyboard, of course, do this. How Interest in DIY keyboards is expandingThere are many things that can be bloomed, for example, sets of keys, layout, handles and switches. But you must delve into a hobby before understanding that there is something more important than all this: stabilizers.
Even if you have the most fashionable switches and a monolithic aluminum case, poor stabilizers can make a keyboard sensation and sound like garbage. Fortunately, there is a growing ecosystem of strange bizarre stabilizers that can update your print experience, packing an impressive amount of innovation in several tiny pieces of plastic and metal.
What is a stabilizer and why should you take care of?
Most of the keys on the keyboard are small enough to rise evenly and down, regardless of where you press. This does not apply to longer keys: space, enter, shifted, back and, depending on the layout, a couple more on a pillow with a number. These keys have wire fees below, called stabilizers, which help them rise down when the switch makes.
Three different stabilizers were installed on a test platform.
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These are 2 quarterly stabilizers for keys, such as Enter and Shift.
Ryan Watvam
These are 2 quarterly stabilizers for keys, such as Enter and Shift.
Ryan Watvam
Three different stabilizers were installed on a test platform.
Ryan Watvam
These are 2 quarterly stabilizers for keys, such as Enter and Shift.
Ryan Watvam
A cheap stabilizer will do this, but it will not necessarily do it well. Stabilizers can be loud and move unevenly, or the wire can even jump out and really destroy your day. But what is good? The stabilizer, well, is stabilized, and that’s all that should do. It facilitates smoothing and down the movement of frequently used keys: if stabilizers add noise, friction or oscillation, they do not do their work and, therefore, are. badThe field of most keyboards is bad stabilizers.
The stabilizer stems poke through a plate to connect to your keys.
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The stabilizer stems poke through a plate to connect to your keys.
Credit: Ryan Watvam
Like switches, most stabilizers are based on the design of the old School of Cherry Inc., but in recent years the specificity has turned. Stabilizers should adhere to certain physical measurements for the correct installation on printed circuit boards and connect to standard keys. Nevertheless, designers came up with many creative ways to change and improve stabilizers in this envelope. And yes, premium stabilizers are really better.
