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How to Repair a Hotswap Socket on a Mechanical Keyboard!

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If you’ve ever built a mechanical keyboard with a hotswap PCB and you have encountered a single key that doesn’t work, or even an entire column or rows of keys that don’t work, there is a good chance that you might have a lifted hotswap socket pad.
We’re going to show you what's involved in repairing a lifted hotswap socket pad so that you can decide if you want to repair it or pick up a replacement PCB instead!
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21 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 45

@iLuvCats Год назад

Ty so much! I'm honestly going to just have a spare pcb for my sonnet and envoy. I would hate for them to stop working 10 years from now and have no way to fix them. As usual, you guys are the best. Keep the products and content coming please.

@BruceN0twayne Год назад

Just a pro tip, make sure to twist the wires in a spiral (rolling it with your thumb and index) to keep it together and tin it (applying a small amount of the solder) before soldering to the socket ends to make your lives easier. 👍

@QueueTeePies 10 месяцев назад

Might be better using thin solid core wire here.

@LewLayraman 3 месяца назад

Thanks! This was super helpful! Glad I found this tutorial as I was just about to e waste my pcb.

@cade2073 6 месяцев назад

Love you man! This video saves my old keycool 84 ❤️

@albanbenard9374 Год назад

Nice video ! I emailed you regarding a broken hotswap socket and you helped a lot thanks for the great work

@flechman63 4 месяца назад

outstanding video

@Uglier. 4 месяца назад

jumping with joy cuz my key works again

@mintlata Год назад

So how does the socket work in the first place, without the jumper wires? I thought just resolder them onto the PCB will do the trick?

@frltkl Год назад

the pad (originally on the PCB) typically breaks from the circuit and comes off with the hotswap socket. So it's difficult to connect that to the original circuit on the PCB (way tooo small & not on the top layer.)

@GamingNightsNeoMasaki Год назад

If the silver pads are still in place then you just need to resolder them. if it fell off, you need the jumper wires since the pads aren't connected to the circuit on the pcb anymore. the circuit is layered in the pcb, so you can't just solder the pad or glue the pad back.

@Gag01515 12 дней назад

thank you so muchhh

@MARK-qk5qu 2 месяца назад

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC MY C IS WORKING AGAINN

@danialashraf4830 4 месяца назад

I just buy new RK61 and the enter button is not working. I try all of solution, not until I open the back of the keyboard. Yes, the hotswap socket pad is lifted. Just push down then now its workk ! THANK YOUUU

@Velereonics 7 месяцев назад

Wait so why does the pcb normally not have a ton of wires on the back? Does reattaching the socket not reconnect it to the circuit?

@DingDongMcgee 2 месяца назад

The pads themselves lifted off of the pcb. They are connected by the traces you can see running through the pcb. It's too small to be able to reconnect yourself so you need to use the wires in this case.

@lmadriles 8 месяцев назад

Question: Didn't you by pass the diode with this conection?

@Argh0pirata 5 месяцев назад

yes, that will lead to ghosting

@jervisdumaliang1315 Год назад

Hello I broke my escape key hot swap socket on my dz64? pcb… will it work if I buy a separate sockets and smd diode? Any recommend sockets that I can use? Thank you very much!!

@dinodolic2270 4 месяца назад

Can you help? I have a problem with my mechanical keyboard. When I press one key, three more are printed. For example, I press the j key, and dhj is printed.

@Ceonbe 9 месяцев назад

what if I broke the switch port but the hotswap socket didn't come off? how do I desolder it?

@TuoInside 9 месяцев назад

Grind finer.

@user-bk3pl8bn7e Месяц назад

anyone added these hot swap pcb's to a k2v2 non hot swap version? gonna be switching my switches and would like to be able to put these on.

@k1l0watt38 5 месяцев назад

my keyboard is non hot swappable and 65% and the up arrow, down arrow, and whole right edge have stopped responding although the rgb still functions. I’m confused on how to go about fixing this or if it’s even possible to fix. can anyone help me with this?

@ahjl9233 Месяц назад

Does anyone have a problem where the key registers when using tweezers from the back but doesn't register when actually pressing the switch from the front? My Haven TKL's tab key isn't working when a use different switches and press it, but it does work when I use tweezers from the back. Please help!

@irreplaceablefundamentals6006 Год назад

Thx

@jerich08 Месяц назад

my row of left shift to /?key is not working where do i start the bridge?

@kompetenzmitz2818 8 месяцев назад

can you also use copper or solder wire for this?

@SleeepyASMRR Год назад

any updates on when the july order envoys will be shipped ?

@NicD09 10 месяцев назад

last time I worked on fixing my mouse, i broke it comletely. Now im gonna try to fix my mechanical keyboard. Guess what key I broke? hahahahah

@fruityshark647 4 месяца назад

h that’s what i broke

@jjchuu 6 месяцев назад

I just watched this, I just got my gmk67 keyboard and I noticed that the enter button is not working so I checked to inspect what happened and I saw that the enter key has a broken hotswap and I temp fixed it using a painter's tape and tapped modded the pcb. yikes

@alezg1212 5 месяцев назад

Was it completely loose? It works just by putting tape on it, I'm in the same situation😅

@jjchuu 5 месяцев назад

@@alezg1212 it was not in the pcb LMAO, but I did a fix and now it stayed there, but now my problem is the > button

@brianp1052 6 месяцев назад

What gauge wire did you use?

@ElleTakeover 9 месяцев назад

What are the odds that my “Z” key also doesn’t work & the 0

@lasermanpl 10 месяцев назад

I don't think you should make short like that (yellow cable). Advising to degrade your circuit is a rubbish advice! And just why wire to next socket when D52 is right there?

@SyrFlora 3 месяца назад

@ChiefBrianIrons 11 месяцев назад

Curious can you convert the pcd or damage hotswap socket into solder one

@lasermanpl 10 месяцев назад

You'd need wires to solder switch pins - in the big holes after removing socket there is nothing to solder to.

@ChiefBrianIrons 10 месяцев назад

@@lasermanpl thanks for replying I have heard of people converting solder PCB to hotswap. I thought it would be easy to convert it the other way around.