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| ====== Cooler Master Novatouch TKL ====== | ====== Cooler Master Novatouch TKL ====== | ||
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| - | The Cooler Master Novatouch TKL is a keyboard sold by Cooler Master that uses Topre switches. This keyboard is notable for having using Cherry MX mount, compatible with modern custom keycap sets. The keyboard was released in late 2014 ((Niels Broekhuijsen (23 September 2014), retrieved from Tom's Hardware 7 February 2024 - [[https:// | + | The Cooler Master Novatouch TKL is a keyboard sold by Cooler Master that uses Topre switches. This keyboard is notable for having using Cherry MX mount, compatible with modern custom keycap sets. The keyboard was released in late 2014 ((Niels Broekhuijsen (23 September 2014), retrieved from Tom's Hardware 7 February 2024 - [[https:// |
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| ===== Description ===== | ===== Description ===== | ||
| This keyboard uses capacitive Topre switches with a Cherry MX compatible keycap mount. | This keyboard uses capacitive Topre switches with a Cherry MX compatible keycap mount. | ||
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| ===== Construction ===== | ===== Construction ===== | ||
| - | The top case is of a wrap-around design. The top case has hidden clips along the top and bottom edges of the bottom case, then further secured using four black pan-head screws that screw up from the bottom case into screw sockets in the top case. The bottom case has four holes for these screws - two of them are exposed, whilst the other two are covered by the rear label and a warranty sticker - therefore requiring puncturing or peeling off said stickers to disassemble the keyboard.. There are four anti-slip rubber pads on the case, along with two flip-out feet that adjust the typing angle. The flip out feet has two additional anti-slip rubber pads to prevent slipping when the feet are extended out. | + | The top case is of a wrap-around design. The top case has hidden clips along the top and bottom edges of the bottom case, then further secured using four black pan-head screws that screw up from the bottom case into screw sockets in the top case. The bottom case has four holes for these screws - two of them are exposed, whilst the other two are covered by the rear label and a warranty sticker - therefore requiring puncturing or peeling off said stickers to disassemble the keyboard.((Photograph [[https:// |
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| + | The top and bottom cases both have date stamps molding marks that can inform you when the specific piece was created. In the examples provided below, the top case marks suggest a manufacture date of August 02 2014, whilst the bottom case marks suggest that it was made on August 28 2014. | ||
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| The keyboard assembly sits within the bottom case. The bottom case has pegs which help in aligning the keyboard assembly, with subsequent holes in the PCB to accommodate for the pegs. The Micro-USB port has two clips and two silver flat-head screws securing it to the bottom case, and is plugged into a 5-pin JST socket on the keyboard assembly; whilst the keyboard assembly is secured to the bottom case with two black pan-head screws. | The keyboard assembly sits within the bottom case. The bottom case has pegs which help in aligning the keyboard assembly, with subsequent holes in the PCB to accommodate for the pegs. The Micro-USB port has two clips and two silver flat-head screws securing it to the bottom case, and is plugged into a 5-pin JST socket on the keyboard assembly; whilst the keyboard assembly is secured to the bottom case with two black pan-head screws. | ||
| - | The keyboard assembly consists of individual sliders and housings clipped into a steel metal plate, sitting over a rubber dome mat that covers capacitive cone-shaped springs that interact with the PCB to increase or decrease capacitance; | + | < |
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| + | The keyboard assembly consists of individual sliders and housings clipped into a steel metal plate, sitting over a rubber dome mat that covers capacitive cone-shaped springs that interact with the PCB to increase or decrease capacitance; | ||
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| + | There are three holes in the metal plate underneath the Scroll Lock, F9, and Caps Lock keys; the holes under the Scroll and F9 key are covered entirely by the switch housing, whilst the hole under the Caps Lock key is exposed. On corresponding positions on the PCB are points where an LED could be soldered into the keyboard assembly, along with SMD resistors for each of the lights, but are left unused | ||
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| The keyboard assembly has three or four stabilized housings for the Backspace, Enter, and Shift keys depending on ISO or ANSI layout; and 1 unit housings for all the other keys, including the spacebar - an external coil spring is placed over the spacebar' | The keyboard assembly has three or four stabilized housings for the Backspace, Enter, and Shift keys depending on ISO or ANSI layout; and 1 unit housings for all the other keys, including the spacebar - an external coil spring is placed over the spacebar' | ||
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| + | The 1 unit keys consist of a black Topre housing, along with a purple slider with the Cherry MX cross mount. | ||
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| The spacebar is 6.25 units long and compatible with MX spacebars with a stem in the centre; the spacebar interfaces with three sliders - the 1 unit switch slider, and two stabilizer sliders on either end of the spacebar; the stabilizer sliders are hooked into a wire, with the wire clipping into corresponding hooks inside of the the stabilizer housing. | The spacebar is 6.25 units long and compatible with MX spacebars with a stem in the centre; the spacebar interfaces with three sliders - the 1 unit switch slider, and two stabilizer sliders on either end of the spacebar; the stabilizer sliders are hooked into a wire, with the wire clipping into corresponding hooks inside of the the stabilizer housing. | ||
| The housings for other stabilized keys have three holes - one that interfaces with the centre keycap stem, and two that allows the other keycap stems to freely move through. The holes on the left and right of the housing have " | The housings for other stabilized keys have three holes - one that interfaces with the centre keycap stem, and two that allows the other keycap stems to freely move through. The holes on the left and right of the housing have " | ||
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| Disassembly of the keyboard assembly is required to access the wires for stabilized keys and the spacebar stabilizer. | Disassembly of the keyboard assembly is required to access the wires for stabilized keys and the spacebar stabilizer. | ||
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| Cooler Master had sent prototypes to various members of the online keyboard community prior to the release of the Novatouch in 2014. The prototypes lacked the rear label and warranty stickers, slightly different alignment for some of the laser and infilled keys, had laser-etched backlit keycaps for the Caps Lock, F9, and Scroll Lock keys, and had corresponding blue LEDs for these keys. ((YuukiHaruto [username], (6 April 2014). Archived 26 July 2014, retrieved 17 February 2024 from GeekHack. [[https:// | Cooler Master had sent prototypes to various members of the online keyboard community prior to the release of the Novatouch in 2014. The prototypes lacked the rear label and warranty stickers, slightly different alignment for some of the laser and infilled keys, had laser-etched backlit keycaps for the Caps Lock, F9, and Scroll Lock keys, and had corresponding blue LEDs for these keys. ((YuukiHaruto [username], (6 April 2014). Archived 26 July 2014, retrieved 17 February 2024 from GeekHack. [[https:// | ||
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