APC BSW 070WH

[ruhtraeel]

Hi Arthur,
The company that makes the keyboard and switches for it is Tai-Hao. The switches made for the KB528U is as named on our site specifications, APC BSW 070WH.

Best Regards,

Va Trung
AZIO Customer Care
19977 Harrison Ave.
City of Industry, CA 91789


>Hi Arthur,
>
>The Azio Levetron Clicker, is using the APC BSW 070WH switches. The
>numeric value listed on the switch name is the grams required to actuate the key.
>As for your question about what the switch actually is, I'll need to
>confirm with the factory side.

[trax]

So fake alps are still been made..

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Oh now that's interesting. That's the same guys that made the "Aruz" switch.

Do these people just write something random on each switch for fun? How comes the Aruz, branded APC, and unbranded APC are all completely different? The unbranded APC just looks like an XM, while the JL/unbranded hash (and presumably the Aruz) aren't even pin-compatible with Alps.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

So fake alps are still been made..

Yes. Xiang Min still make [wiki]XM[/wiki] switches -- Ducky use them.

And now Matias are making brand new Alps clones of their own design: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Matias_switch

[Daniel Beardsmore]

@ruhtraeel:

BTW, I wrote to Taiwan Tai-Hao for switch info (sent them a photo of the branded APC as well as the Aruz), will see if they respond. You might want to ask them too, as out of the two of us, only you got a reply from AZiO :)

I've updated the wiki based on the new findings. I've formally declared the Aruz a Tai-Hao switch for now, since we have confirmation that that they do make switches.

[ruhtraeel]

@ruhtraeel:

BTW, I wrote to Taiwan Tai-Hao for switch info (sent them a photo of the branded APC as well as the Aruz), will see if they respond. You might want to ask them too, as out of the two of us, only you got a reply from AZiO

I've updated the wiki based on the new findings. I've formally declared the Aruz a Tai-Hao switch for now, since we have confirmation that that they do make switches.

I emailed Azio twice, and they didn't respond the first time, so I added in the second email that I didn't get a response, and then they responded after that. I probably wouldn't be the best person to ask for switch info, because I obviously don't have as much knowledge about keyboards as most people here. I wouldn't really know what to ask.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Taiwan Tai-Hao confirm that Aruz is theirs (as we suspected), but that the JL is not one of theirs. The unbranded Aruz-style switch is also not theirs. I guess they also got cloned? :)

Good find ruhtraeel!