With the popularization of mechanical keyboards, it has also led to the development of various types of shafts, and there are great innovations and developments in shaft structure, feel and sound. As a well-known shaft body manufacturer in the industry, Kaihua has released a number of shaft bodies this year, which have excellent performance in appearance matching and hand performance, and have been praised by many users. Recently, Kaihua users brought its elite series shaft body, and the night shaft is the first shaft body of the series to be released. The night shaft focuses on the silent characteristics, and then follow the author to see how this shaft body performs.
Kaihua NightShade adopts the popular transparent canned form, allowing users to intuitively see the shaft type and color matching, which is also very convenient for daily placement and storage. The author here has about 100 shafts in a single jar, which can accommodate up to 120 pieces, which is still very convenient to use.
The night shaft provides two different shaft types, corresponding to the linear feel and paragraph feel, and both shafts adopt a silent scheme, which can reduce the noise generated by the user's daily tapping and avoid noise interference to others. It still has a lot of advantages in using scenarios such as dormitories and offices, and the applicable scenarios are more abundant. In order to facilitate the user's distinction, the shaft core of the two shafts adopts different colors, the linear feel adopts the lemon gray shaft core, and the paragraph feel is the cement gray shaft core, which is still very intuitive and clear to identify.
Both shaft bodies continue the MX shaft body structure scheme, from the appearance point of view, the use of transparent shaft cover with pure black shaft seat collocation style, the overall style is also very suitable for the name of "night". The shaft seat part adopts a three-pin fixing scheme, which can be compatible with the hot-swappable scheme of the current mainstream keyboard, and the welding with the positioning plate does not have to worry too much about the problem of crooked shaft, and the compatibility is still friendly enough.
The internal structure of the shaft body is still relatively simple, still composed of four components: shaft cover, shaft seat, shaft core and spring, and through different antennae schemes on the dust-proof wall shaft core, two different pressing feels of linearity and paragraph are realized. In order to achieve the mute effect, these two shaft bodies adopt an innovative structural scheme, adding silencers to the top of the shaft cover and the bottom of the shaft seat, which can effectively reduce the noise generated by the impact when bottoming out and rebounding, and achieve a better silent effect. Both shafts use dust-proof wall cross shaft core with single-stage spring for better compression stability. The inside of the shaft body is also lubricated, which improves the smoothness of the hand, and can also effectively reduce the noise of the internal spring sound and metal shrapnel, further improving the silent performance.
In order to bring users better hand performance, the two shaft bodies also use different spring lengths, which are also different in pressure and rebound performance. Among them, the linear hand feel shaft body adopts 40gf trigger pressure, 45gf bottom pressure, paragraph feel is 45gf trigger pressure, 60gf bottom pressure, the total stroke of the two shaft bodies is 4mm, the trigger stroke is 2mm, the click life is about 70 million times, the data performance is still relatively good, very suitable for daily use of users. The transparent shaft cover adopts a large buckle structure, and the dust-proof cross shaft core further reduces the shaft core shaking, bringing users a more stable and smooth experience.
After the keyboard is installed, the transparent shaft cover with the black shaft seat also has a good visual performance, with two different shaft core colors, the visual perception is more three-dimensional and layered. In terms of hand feel performance, the linear feel shaft body is light and smooth to press, the feel is linear, the rebound is slightly lighter, and the tapping is still very comfortable. The paragraph axis body has a clear sense of pressing the paragraph, the paragraph feel is biased to the front, the bottoming and rebound strength are slightly heavier, and the hand feel performance is still relatively strong. The two night shafts have no obvious rustling sound when pressed, and the internal sound-deadening structure does not bring a noticeable sense of flesh, and the overall performance is quiet and gentle, smooth and comfortable.
In terms of light transmission performance, these two shaft bodies adopt a flat mirror type lamp position light transmission structure, which is compatible with the current mainstream SMT RGB lamp beads. The transparent cover has a mid-to-high light transmittance, which can make the keyboard light look softer and more natural, and can also bring a good lighting atmosphere performance.
Kaihua night shaft is very good in percussion feel and mute performance, and the two different hand feel types can also better facilitate users to choose the shaft body type that suits them. The mute feature can also better meet the needs of users with specific scenes, and at the same time, it takes into account the smoothness and stability of the feel.