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% More PC Gaming Mice Should Follow ROG’s Repairable Switches iFixit News Ana içeriğe geç Eşyalarını Tamir Et Topluluk Mağaza Opinion <h1>More PC Gaming Mice Should Follow ROG&#8217 s Repairable Switches</h1> <h2>Whether something s wrong or you re really picky ROG s switches are easier to swap </h2> Article by: Kevin Purdy &#64;kpifixit February 16, 2022 Filed under: Tech News, Opinion, Product Design 4 Yorum Facebook Twitter Reddit Linkedin Email Copy Link Share Douglas Englebart&#8217;s mouse protoype, via SRI International / Wikmedia Computer mice, ever since the first wooden block from 1964, have always had a fundamental weakness. They have buttons, and the switches under those buttons can wear out. And yet, in some ways, Douglas Englebart’s knifed-up but durable prototype has it better than today’s highly engineered gaming mice.
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More PC Gaming Mice Should Follow ROG’ s Repairable Switches

Whether something s wrong or you re really picky ROG s switches are easier to swap

Article by: Kevin Purdy @kpifixit February 16, 2022 Filed under: Tech News, Opinion, Product Design 4 Yorum Facebook Twitter Reddit Linkedin Email Copy Link Share Douglas Englebart’s mouse protoype, via SRI International / Wikmedia Computer mice, ever since the first wooden block from 1964, have always had a fundamental weakness. They have buttons, and the switches under those buttons can wear out. And yet, in some ways, Douglas Englebart’s knifed-up but durable prototype has it better than today’s highly engineered gaming mice.
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The mechanical switches on gaming mice can wear out in a way that’s particularly awful for accurac...
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The mechanical switches on gaming mice can wear out in a way that’s particularly awful for accuracy-obsessed gamers: single clicks accidentally triggering double-clicks. Wirecutter’s gaming mouse guide notes that double-click failure can be caused by humidity, user pressure, long-term wear, or, seemingly, just bad luck. A gaming mouse product designer told Wirecutter that wireless gaming mice are more susceptible to accidental double-clicks because “their lower voltage—which saves battery life—can accelerate corrosion in the switch.” Enthusiast site and store Mouse Club cites “dirty / oxidized switch contacts, inconsistent voltages in your device, or too low of a click debounce time in your mouse software.” To go just a bit deeper into this, consider how a microswitch works.
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The mechanical switches on gaming mice can wear out in a way that’s particularly awful for accuracy-obsessed gamers: single clicks accidentally triggering double-clicks. Wirecutter’s gaming mouse guide notes that double-click failure can be caused by humidity, user pressure, long-term wear, or, seemingly, just bad luck. A gaming mouse product designer told Wirecutter that wireless gaming mice are more susceptible to accidental double-clicks because “their lower voltage—which saves battery life—can accelerate corrosion in the switch.” Enthusiast site and store Mouse Club cites “dirty / oxidized switch contacts, inconsistent voltages in your device, or too low of a click debounce time in your mouse software.” To go just a bit deeper into this, consider how a microswitch works.
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One thing that can cause double-clicks instead of single is contact bounce. When metal hits metal inside a mechanical switch, it&#8217;s not always a clean, one-tap impact, but sometimes a series of vibrations.
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One thing that can cause double-clicks instead of single is contact bounce. When metal hits metal inside a mechanical switch, it’s not always a clean, one-tap impact, but sometimes a series of vibrations.
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The digital result is a spattering of on/off signals of various shapes and lengths. There are a lot of ways to correct for this, including signal filtering and circuit design.
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The digital result is a spattering of on/off signals of various shapes and lengths. There are a lot of ways to correct for this, including signal filtering and circuit design.
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Arthur Shi, technical writing team lead at iFixit, suggests that in a low-voltage switch, with possibly worn or corroded contacts, the amount of signal noise from the switch mechanism can overwhelm the mouse’s filters and let through phantom clicks.<br> Accessing the switches on this Logitech gaming mouse requires de-soldering 14 board connections. Whatever the cause, there’s more frustration to come (beyond accidentally selling an epic item from your inventory).
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Arthur Shi, technical writing team lead at iFixit, suggests that in a low-voltage switch, with possibly worn or corroded contacts, the amount of signal noise from the switch mechanism can overwhelm the mouse’s filters and let through phantom clicks.
Accessing the switches on this Logitech gaming mouse requires de-soldering 14 board connections. Whatever the cause, there’s more frustration to come (beyond accidentally selling an epic item from your inventory).
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If your mouse uses standard Omron switches, and if you can find a replacement, your next task is taking apart the entire device to make the swap. That usually involves de-soldering around a dozen contact points just to flip a board over and get at the switch.
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If your mouse uses standard Omron switches, and if you can find a replacement, your next task is taking apart the entire device to make the swap. That usually involves de-soldering around a dozen contact points just to flip a board over and get at the switch.
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Then you have to solder a new button switch on, re-soldering the contact points, and praying you haven’t misplaced a tiny pin or spring along the way. This is how it goes for most mice made by popular gaming brands, including Razer, Logitech, and Steelseries.
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Then you have to solder a new button switch on, re-soldering the contact points, and praying you haven’t misplaced a tiny pin or spring along the way. This is how it goes for most mice made by popular gaming brands, including Razer, Logitech, and Steelseries.
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Knowing iFixit’s general dislike of soldered-down components when an alternative is available, a friend pointed out that one brand had recently put replaceable switches into most of their gaming mice.&nbsp; ROG, (Republic of Gamers), an ASUS sub-brand, features push-fit sockets across most of its gaming mouse line. The Chakram, Chakram X, Spatha X, Spatha, Gladius III Wireless, Gladius III, Keris Wireless, Keris, Pugio II, Strix Carry—all of them, besides being fun to type out, feature primary left/right click switches that can be swapped out with a procedure that ROG illustrates in five steps. You can swap them out because you want a different force, feel, or sound to your clicks, or simply because something doesn’t feel right.
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Knowing iFixit’s general dislike of soldered-down components when an alternative is available, a friend pointed out that one brand had recently put replaceable switches into most of their gaming mice.  ROG, (Republic of Gamers), an ASUS sub-brand, features push-fit sockets across most of its gaming mouse line. The Chakram, Chakram X, Spatha X, Spatha, Gladius III Wireless, Gladius III, Keris Wireless, Keris, Pugio II, Strix Carry—all of them, besides being fun to type out, feature primary left/right click switches that can be swapped out with a procedure that ROG illustrates in five steps. You can swap them out because you want a different force, feel, or sound to your clicks, or simply because something doesn’t feel right.
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I could tell you the whole thing during a two-floor elevator ride: remove the pads, remove the screws, open it up, swap the switches, close it, put the screws and pads back in. ASUS ROG&#8217;s 5-step switch replacement instructions I asked ROG representatives why they changed their designs to accommodate easy switch replacements.
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I could tell you the whole thing during a two-floor elevator ride: remove the pads, remove the screws, open it up, swap the switches, close it, put the screws and pads back in. ASUS ROG’s 5-step switch replacement instructions I asked ROG representatives why they changed their designs to accommodate easy switch replacements.
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Customizability and longevity, said Cat Tompkins, public relations lead with ASUS. Gamers have “vastly different preferences with regards to mice,” Tompkins wrote, between skill levels, game types, and personal style.
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Customizability and longevity, said Cat Tompkins, public relations lead with ASUS. Gamers have “vastly different preferences with regards to mice,” Tompkins wrote, between skill levels, game types, and personal style.
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“We wanted to have a mouse that could best accommodate everyone’s play style, while maintaining a high-quality ROG mouse shape and feel as the base.” The switches inside the ROG Strix Impact II Wireless, just a few screws away if you want or need to replace them. Tompkins also noted that mouse switches wear out, and that owners can swap their switches instead of replacing the entire mouse. This might seem obvious to you, a person who has owned and broken things.
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“We wanted to have a mouse that could best accommodate everyone’s play style, while maintaining a high-quality ROG mouse shape and feel as the base.” The switches inside the ROG Strix Impact II Wireless, just a few screws away if you want or need to replace them. Tompkins also noted that mouse switches wear out, and that owners can swap their switches instead of replacing the entire mouse. This might seem obvious to you, a person who has owned and broken things.
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But it’s not a common sentiment or admission in the realm of PC gaming hardware, where the upgrade cycle can often seem about as long as Amazon Prime’s fastest delivery date. ASUS says it will continue to offer push-fit switch replacements in upcoming ROG mice.
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But it’s not a common sentiment or admission in the realm of PC gaming hardware, where the upgrade cycle can often seem about as long as Amazon Prime’s fastest delivery date. ASUS says it will continue to offer push-fit switch replacements in upcoming ROG mice.
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ROG isn’t a dominant player in the gaming mouse field, but this design could have an outsized impact. Let’s hope ROG, and devotees of other gaming brands, can motivate more companies to improve the upgradeability and repairability of the mice with which their customers spend so much time.
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ROG isn’t a dominant player in the gaming mouse field, but this design could have an outsized impact. Let’s hope ROG, and devotees of other gaming brands, can motivate more companies to improve the upgradeability and repairability of the mice with which their customers spend so much time.
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No character deserves to die because of a double-click. And no mouse deserves to die because of one little soldered-on switch. Related Stories Product Design <h3>The Most Repairable Midrange Phones of 2020</h3> Product Design <h3>How Repairable Is Your Tablet </h3> Teardowns <h3>Xbox Series X Teardown Totally Modular Not As Repairable</h3> <h3> 4 Yorum </h3> Yorum Ekle Yup my AUD$189.00 Logitech G9x Laser Mouse started to show contact bounce in the left button a few months ago.
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I was disappointed, because I don’t even use it for gaming - I was just trying to get off the “buy cheap replacement and bury in the ground” treadmill. Logitech support told me that the quality of the mouse is too low for it to be repairable, and replacement switches are not available. On that basis, and now having read this article, I think my next one will be a ROG mouse, in the hope that it is repairable should it be needed.
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I was disappointed, because I don’t even use it for gaming - I was just trying to get off the “buy cheap replacement and bury in the ground” treadmill. Logitech support told me that the quality of the mouse is too low for it to be repairable, and replacement switches are not available. On that basis, and now having read this article, I think my next one will be a ROG mouse, in the hope that it is repairable should it be needed.
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My Razer Basilisk Ultimate has an issue with a broken scroll register where if I try to scroll down, it scrolls up, very unpredictably. Will Black - 10 Mar 2022 Yanıt I wish ROG would make vertical mice. I just purchased my first one (Lekvey) and am anxious to give it a workout.
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Victor Escobar - 10 Nis 2022 Yanıt I find the mouse wheels buttons die well before the left and right buttons. Making the wheel replaceable or building it's switch out of much stronger parts would fix that. Link S - 26 Ağu 2022 Yanıt <h4>Yorum Ekle</h4> 1024 İptal Yorum gönder
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