Saitek Keyboard

[fobnicat]

I just recently purchased the Saitek Eclipse keyboard and I love the way it feels and looks.. Or atleast for the first week I loved the way it looked.. Now I am beginning to realize just how much I hate the color blue. (Im a Dawgs Fan).
Has anyone attempted to open one of these up and change the colored LEDs yet? I popped a few keys off last night and I looks like each key has its own led, plus the lights have a High, Low, and off seetting.. So what I am asking is it might be possible for me to change the color that the keyboard emits.. I have no problem sautering and de-sautering I jsut dont wantt o go ripping my keyboard apart and realize that it was never even an option from the begining...

[DaveW]

Theoretically you should just be able to replace each LED without too much worry. E-mail someone at Saitek and ask them what sort of LED's they use, they'll probably moan about breaking warranty then tell you anyway. ( i was surprised when a company, when i looked for new firmware updates, directed me to a 3rd party product because they admitted that since it was better they had given up ;) )

Should be able to just de-solder the old LED's and solder in the new ones. If you know about soldering then i'll assume i don't need to tell you that those LED's only go in one way :)

Good luck

-Dave

[fobnicat]

Haha just my luck, after posting this, checking their site, emailing them, fighting with my mail server, and finally getting the email to go through.. I found that they actually released a red and black keyboard... same price.. Great.. oh well, looks like I will ahve to do more than just change the color:rolleyes: * Ponders more mods * :rolleyes:

[fobnicat]

I’ll ask for you but the engineers are always funny about giving hardware specs out – I’m usually run out of the office!! – but you never know…

Haha after asking for the details on the keyboard I bought this was the one line response I recieved within 12 hours! Not too shabby.. More than I expected... Props for Saitek.. Atleast you get a response :)

[Django]

Funnily enough I changed the LEDs in mine and then a week after I found out about the red kb, its a fairly easy process so long as you arent afraid of SMDs or very very thin circuitry

[fobnicat]

how does the red look? and does the dimmer still work?

[Django]

Dimmer still works, its a seperate assembly... Red seems a bit darker at first but you get used to it.. its all in the wavelenghts