I feel like Patrick Bateman every time I look at this sub.

“Look at those subtle off black keycaps. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh god, it has wood grain..”

Whatever floats your boat dude.

….How else do you think they shocked the pcb in the first place? They touched the metal case, which discharged to the pcb. The only way that could have happened was the pcb was touching the case.

Not really, because when I static shock my space65 it also makes a disconnect/reconnect noise. Esd must be working well enough not to fry the pcb but the leds always go out and need replacement. I wouldnt be surprised if my pcb dies on me.

Yeah this is wild. A device that's designed to be touched should never have this sort of issue. The big companies can make a $15 board that survives almost anything - an expensive board should be safe.

Nice, now can you write a few more paragraphs on why an expensive custom keyboard susceptible to ESD by touching the key caps is anyone’s fault but the manufacturer?

Yes, between the middle case structure they have a thin black esd protection film that is included.

There's numerous people reporting the same problem with pretty much any other board...

While all your "keeb build stream gurus" still showing you to handle PCB's w/o any precautions... but of course whole community jumps onto maker...

Specs:

• Board: Iron165 R2 (Graphite) w/ copper badge + weight
• Switches: H1s (L+F 205g0 + 0.3mm poron, spring swapped with 62g Durocks)
• Keycaps: Cherry Charcoal by Novelkeys
• Stabilizers: Staebies (black, lubed w/ 205g0 on housings, XHT-BDZ on wires)
• Artisan: MOZIcaps Neissus Kopi

You are most likely describing different issue.

Finally a voice of reason.

wow i've been blue pilled all along...i will now take the red pill

Google internet sheep to educate yourself ;)

What does that even mean??? lmfaoooo

You're probably just another sheep.

There's numerous people reporting the same problem. Just by having an ARM CPU doesn't make it immune. You still have to provide ESD and surge protection circuitry on all data, power and ground nets of the PCB. It sounds like it was either designed incorrectly, or skipped all together.

No silly, maybe read my comment again and again before typing nonsense.

FYI: I am only opposing false statements about facts and coming up with absurd conclusions - all clearly made by wannabe experts. It has nothing to do with this maker.

>products that can’t survive static electricity

And you just done the same! Congratulations!

You all can downvote as much as you like - you still not qualified to make this judgement about the product or maker.

Tip: read comments below about very similar incident with completely different board from different maker - only total ignorant goes instantly to exclusively blame product or maker.

He probably bought one too.

Sorry for your loss OP but it's incredibly funny that a $500 keyboard has problems that even $30 keyboards off Amazon don't have.

https://www.ti.com/lit/sszb130

No they don’t. This is entirely a manufacturing problem.

It’s ESD protection not immunity. A large enough shock to any electrical component will cause damage.

I’m sorry, you’re defending the keyboard maker for selling products that can’t survive static electricity why?

Probably because it shouldn’t be a risk on a reasonably well built consumer electronic.

What mousepad do you have?