Hi.
I’m really interested in buying the beamspring but I saw a comment on chryosrans tear down video that mentions that the reason why the original switches feel so great is because of the height and making them shorter would change the keyfeel. I would upload a screenshot but the website keeps telling me that I dont have permission to upload anything so I will quote the comment below.
“Making them shorter is a really stupid idea given that the smoothness of the mechanism directly depends on the tangent of the down-force applied by the finger against the outer wall, and that increases super-linearly and then super-exponentially as the switch height is shortened. He’s literally killing the most important part of the switch.”
Can you confirm if this is true or not considering the commenter didn’t provide a source?
Thanks.
These kinds of discussions always seem like a lost cause to me– when you’re pressing keys on the original boards, you’re feeling characteristics of not only the original manufacturing specs, but you’re also feeling years of use as well. Old boards that have hundreds of thousands of key presses over decades are not going to feel the same as that EXACT same board did when it was new!
The fact that it’s 2023 and we have NEW boards being made is nothing short of a miracle. I’d say to anyone interested in these should just go for it, experience it. Years from now these boards will be spoken of in the same way. 🙂