Gateron Switches (Manufacture)

Spikebolt · 12 Mar 2015, 17:18

425 thousand orders?! Damn

scottc · 12 Mar 2015, 17:19

425,000 orders, 50,000 switches? I don't know how that would work out!

ramnes · 12 Mar 2015, 19:02

Let's fight scottc!

hwood34 · 12 Mar 2015, 19:07

0.425 thousand orders, or 425 orders

ae86manny · 14 Mar 2015, 02:44

I sent a pm to Shadovved the other day but no response, hwood34 are you able to confirm if I have a invoice?

hwood34 · 14 Mar 2015, 22:27

ae86manny wrote: I sent a pm to Shadovved the other day but no response, hwood34 are you able to confirm if I have a invoice?

He should respond soon enough. All invoices should be out though, I'd confirm that it was sent to the right address

scottc · 15 Mar 2015, 00:47

Still waiting for updated invoice from Shadovved, any estimate on ETA?

hwood34 · 15 Mar 2015, 20:44

scottc wrote: Still waiting for updated invoice from Shadovved, any estimate on ETA?

I'll message him again when he's online to make sure it gets changed. Since he sent it I can't change anything unfortunately

jonlorusso · 08 Apr 2015, 02:57

Any additional info on ship dates, etc?

ae86manny · 29 Apr 2015, 06:56

It's been well over a month since my post on this tread and still haven't got a replay back from Shadovved from my pm, I been waiting patiently for a response and I fell like Shadovved just took the money and not deliver the goods or am I jumping to conclusions?

Nuum · 29 Apr 2015, 08:43

He already got the switches and sent most of them out. Have a look at the thread over at Geekhack and maybe contact him there.

ae86manny · 29 Apr 2015, 08:50

do you have a link?

never mind I found it, thanks for the info.

Nuum · 29 Apr 2015, 08:58

Here: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=68943.0

scottc · 29 Apr 2015, 11:14

Mine arrived yesterday! Everything was fine. I sort of wish I'd ordered more blues instead of browns now, though.

Stabilized · 29 Apr 2015, 11:53

scottc wrote: Mine arrived yesterday! Everything was fine. I sort of wish I'd ordered more blues instead of browns now, though.

What shipping service did you go for? Looking forward to my order coming

scottc · 29 Apr 2015, 12:03

Stabilized wrote:
scottc wrote: Mine arrived yesterday! Everything was fine. I sort of wish I'd ordered more blues instead of browns now, though.
What shipping service did you go for? Looking forward to my order coming

I actually don't know...

I didn't get a choice!

HzFaq · 29 Apr 2015, 12:12

I got my shipping notice yesterday so I'm guessing a couple of weeks before mine turn up. Which is good as I'm in an odd position (for me) where I don't have any boards that are waiting for switches...I'm probably going to stick some of mine in the sprit 75% I've been waiting 18 months for whenever that turns up, no idea what I'm going to do with the other couple of hundred

.

scottc · 29 Apr 2015, 12:14

I got my shipping notice on Friday or something and mine are here already. No idea what to do with mine either! I'll need to order a Korean PCB at some point...

HzFaq · 29 Apr 2015, 12:21

Oh wow, thats crazy quick!

What did you go for? How are you finding them? Is the hype real? Can I think of any more questions to ask?

I've got clears, browns and blacks on the way; clears are just for the stems though as I think I'd probably activate a 35gm switch by breathing near it...

scottc · 29 Apr 2015, 12:32

Actually I got the shipping confirmation on the 24th, so it only took 4 days, including a weekend!

I went for 100 blacks, 100 browns, and 5 each of blues and clears for comparison. I'm really impressed with them all. I'll go through them each in turn:

Blacks: Quite smooth, smoother than MX blacks. Feels like roughly the same bottom-out force as a Cherry MX black.
Browns: More tactile than an MX brown for sure. Less scratchy than MX brown too. I'd have to try a full keyboard of them to be sure. I've got one MX brown, one Gateron brown and one unnamed clone from techkeys.us, and the Gateron feels the best.
Blues: Again, has a more tactile and "deep" click than MX blues. I don't like MX blues too much, but I'd like to use a full board of these.
Clears: I'm not sure if it's the spring deceiving me, but these might be even slightly smoother than the Gateron blacks. Makes me wish I'd taken 100 clears since I'll be doing a spring swap anyway. These are really nice. I think that my visual inspection of the switch might've actuated it, so a spring swap is definitely necessary.

All in all, I think the hype is probably a bit exaggerated (OH MY GOD THESE ARE THE ULTIMATE SWITCH BETTER THAN VINTAGE BLACKS NO WAIT THEY ARE BETTER THAN NIXDORFS AHHHH) but they're still very nice.

Stabilized · 29 Apr 2015, 12:54

I got some Gaterons reds a couple of months ago and have to agree that they are nice switches for the price, but again I don't really think the hype is all to be believed.

And FWIW I think mine arrived today! I sent them to my Dad's and he just sent me text saying I got a package from Singapore. For reference mine where also posted on the 24th, were just sent airmail registered and were being sent to Scotland.

HzFaq · 29 Apr 2015, 13:11

Cool, thanks for that both.

Where did you get the reds like just out of interest? I'm now thinking of doing another variable weighted linear deal...

Ch3rry · 29 Apr 2015, 17:53

My Gateron Blacks arrived today.

Findecanor · 29 Apr 2015, 22:48

I am working on a Wiki article on the Gateron switches. It will come up once I have the product numbers down...

Edit: According to hwood34, the switches in this group buy are Gateron KS-3 series. I compiled info about them from reviews and Massdrop and put up a wiki page about them. Unfortunately, no datasheet for them seems to be available.

Apparently, the switches that have a ring around the base of the stem are Gateron KS-1 series, for which I also created a separate Wiki article. Photos of the datasheet exist (check a link from a reference in the article) but I can't translate from Chinese.

wlhlm · 29 Apr 2015, 23:30

Findecanor wrote: I am working on a Wiki article on the Gateron switches. It will come up once I have the product numbers down...

Great job!

Sprit posted some resources, that might help you:

www.gateron.com company shop http://shop1396630507718.1688.com

- est. Dec. 2013 Location : Guandong, Huizhou city, China - next to Hongkong and Shenzhen
- Gateron MX Stabilizer clones https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=71330.0 Plate mount Type Only, No Wires - 25 April

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3118495285
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3120448793
http://weistang.com/thread-816-1-1.html
http://mouse.zol.com.cn/503/5037494.html
http://www.pcwaishe.cn/thread-566627-1-1.html

http://youtu.be/Nq03qDaX960 - Typing Gateron switches, Aug 2014

Stabilized · 30 Apr 2015, 09:47

HzFaq wrote: Cool, thanks for that both.

Where did you get the reds like just out of interest? I'm now thinking of doing another variable weighted linear deal...

I got the reds from Taobao:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z ... 8eagph4deb
and I bought them through Bhiner (would recommend), and the total was $27 for 90 switches with $9 shipping (around £23).
I have a couple spare if you want a couple to try out? PM me if you're interested.

vvp · 30 Apr 2015, 17:24

My order arrived yesterday.
Enough to build one Katy keyboard from each switch kind.
Then I'll know which switch I like the most

HzFaq · 01 May 2015, 18:28

Switches came today

.

The browns feel really nice, clears and blacks are about what I expected.

Lots to play with tonight, Mrs has friends over so I'm unshackled

.

Findecanor · 01 May 2015, 21:39

Yes, the Gateron browns feel more tactile than MX browns. It would be interesting to compare them to ergo Clears.

HzFaq · 01 May 2015, 21:47

I have ergo clears on my ergodox, I'll do a bit of a comparison later.