Welcome back to nearlucid.
I have something different for you today.
We got the ciel65 in the mail, and we're going to take a look, but 90% of this board is the
same as the ciel60, so it doesn’t make sense to make a full review.
This is just gonna be a pretty brief unboxing, build and sound test.
We’ve got Sora switches, and Cluck switches.
The manufacturer swapped their colors, so just bear with me.
And, of course, a fidget spinner.
Here’s an aluminum plate, hotswap PCB, and the board with a daughterboard, feet and daughterboard
screws, and our o ring for the o ring mounting.
Cock weight engraving is limited to protos.
I know.
Very sad.
On a completely unrelated note, I will be selling this board, so if anyone is interested,
Nah, I'm joking.
Soras are pretty cool, fairly loud, long pole linears, and clucks are really loud, high
pitched, long pole tactiles.
Soras sound like they need films, but otherwise have a nice and sharp clack.
Unfortunately clucks have an issue with the top housing exploding when getting opened,
and the switch might just get scrapped as a whole.
In this PCB already are TX stabs lubed with 205g0 and XHT-BDZ.
Here’s the alu plate, and I’m going to install color swapped soras.
I had a 6.25 spacebar stab here, but it turns out the proto plate only has the 7U cutout
for the right alt key.
Sucks.
I’m just gonna install the switch here, and leave it without a keycap.
This obviously won't be an issue with the final units
Also did I mention I absolutely love the PCB detailing?
Now, it’s just a matter of wrapping the o ring,
Connecting the daughterboard, And installing the inner assembly.
I’m going to use GMK Shoko to complement the light blue case.
Its a bit hollow, so I’m going to add in some case foam from the KBD75 cut down to
size.
Definitely helps, but the foam is actually too thick and the PCB is resting on it.
So let’s try no foam and tape mod.