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I'm having a little trouble with a keyboard and am looking for some advice. I'm posting this here because I don't necessarily trust what I'm hearing from the company. I ordered a wireless bluetooth keyboard direct from a manufacturer, and out of the box it would only work when connected to USB, as if the battery wouldn't hold a charge. As long as the keyboard is drawing power from USB (whatever the source), it works over bluetooth, but unplug the USB, and it powers off immediately. The manufacturer sent me a replacement battery to swap myself. Upon opening the case, I saw this.   I did go ahead and replace the battery, and the problem has not resolved. Interestingly, the keys in those pictures, as well as their LEDs, work properly. They also are nowhere near any of the components that would be involved in charging the keyboard. I sent these pictures to the manufacturer, and their response is that they don't use water near the keyboards during the manufacturing, and it never would have passed QC like that, so this is 100% not caused by them. But I know that I have not spilled anything on the keyboard myself. So, I have two questions: 1) Could anything else have caused that damage? 2) Is that potentially related to the problem I'm having with the keyboard? I'm kind of in a bind here because my  Specific Keyboard Needs are only met by this keyboard.
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Nondescript Van posted:do you have a multimeter? I don't, but this is just the excuse I've been looking for to buy one.
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Thanks for the advice, everyone! Just to follow up: I bought from the manufacturer to get a specific configuration I wanted. The only other way was to wait for a sporadic Massdrop and hope they offered the right options, but I've heard dealing with MD can be iffy anyway, and I figured it was worth the gamble. (Welp,) Anyway, I think I found out the problem. One of the pins connecting the battery to the PCB wasn't soldered in correctly.  Hopefully I can just RMA it now. They've been responsive and helpful otherwise, so fingers crossed. If not there's always my credit card company. I could probably try to fix it on my own but that looks like a tougher soldering fix than I've taken on before, so that's the total last resort. It looks like maybe the crud I posted isn't related?
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clamiam45 posted:I'm pretty new to mechanical keyboards, but I found the SA Dasher set and it looks really good. Do these things usually only get sold on massdrop? Is there a secondary market I can pick up a set on? drat those look nice. There's a good chance they'll show up on massdrop again but who knows when.
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I don't need to find out if there's anything more "greenish" than the greens. I want to remain happy and satisfied in my ignorance.
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mewse posted:Nothinh wronh with that keyboard
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unpronounceable posted:Keyboards are great. My keyboard does the same thing under a blacklight
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