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smolwaffle

Sep 16, 2020

Unfortunately, there's a lot of power leakage from the LED drivers on my sample of this keyboard - when I have the backlights running my USB hub practically sings, with peaks at just over 200Hz and around 2600Hz. I don't have this problem with other keyboards, e.g. my Ducky One 2 RGB TKL. The USB hub is a 10-port hub from Anker with a 60W external power supply, so there's plenty of juice. I can't trigger the behavior by putting even substantially more power demand on the hub by charging some other devices, so it seems to be specifically related to the keyboard. Changing the brightness changes the volume of the tone; changing other power draws has no impact. Arguably the USB hub should be able to handle this sort of behavior as lots of devices have poor power conditioning at the input, but I wonder if this is a manufacturing issue like a missing capacitor. Is this typical for these keyboards or should I be doing an exchange?

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Sep 16, 2020