This is my favorite keyboard out there, but I don't seem to be having good luck with them. A piece popped off when I was putting in the switches; not sure how. piece
Can I safely attempt soldering it back in, or am I SoL?
Posted Mar 17, 2019, 8:45 PM UTC · edited
The pads came up with the socket. You will need to mechanically secure it down with epoxy or similar and then jumper the contacts to somewhere upstream of the pads on the PCB.
I think you need to contact OLKB first to see if this is covered.
Hmm... Looks like the pads were ripped off from the board. I don't think you can simply solder them back on.
Correct. There is no contact left to solder them on, as the hotswap socket is still soldered onto both pads - It's just that both pads popped :/
Contact Jack, I hope for the best.
That happened on my gf's build to. In her case, the pad didn't popped off completely and I was capable of soldering a jumper wire to fix it.
If you mean the hotswap socket, it is completely normal and you can solder it back on :)
This wont work, the socket is still soldered to both of the pads, it's just that both pads came off the PCB. :/
Also, I'd hope that it's not normal for them to just fall off.
True, didn't see it properly before. Thanks for the correction
I hawe the same thing happen to me on one of the pads. The wire leading to the pad broke off. No switch pins bent or nothing. I feel like the epoxy between the pcb and the pads are not strong enough on some places.
I emailed jack but havent got a reply yet.
It doesn't look like we're the only ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/ayt5zn/planck_rev_61_hot_swap_socket_and_pads_came_off/
If you want to fix it yourself, glue it back on with some strong glue (preferably epoxy) and avoid using superglue because when you go to solder, it will release some nasty vapours. Then solder with some jumper wires. You can use the contacts for matias/alps switches because those connect to the same traces on the PCB and they will register keypresses the same.