At the end of last year, Kaihua released its own elite series shaft body, in which the main silent solution of the night shaft has received the attention of many users as soon as it was launched. The night shaft follows the traditional MX shaft structure, and adopts a noise reduction and sound reduction structure on the shaft body cover and shaft seat, which can reduce the noise generated when bottoming out and rebounding, and bring users a more quiet percussion experience. Recently, Kaihua has also upgraded the night axis, launched the night axis Pro mechanical shaft body, in the shaft details of the further optimization, the next follow the author to see how the performance of the night axis Pro.
Nightshade Pro still provides two different versions of linear feel and paragraph feel, and adopts the current mainstream transparent canning method, which is very convenient to access, store and place, and also allows users to easily distinguish the shaft type and color matching.
The two shafts continue the original color scheme, the gray version is a linear scheme, the yellow version is a paragraph scheme, and the appearance is clearly distinguished. The new shaft body optimizes the shaft seat and shaft cover, and adopts a new transparent shaft cover and shaft seat of the same color as the shaft center for better visual consistency. In addition, the shaft seat part has also been changed from the original three-legged scheme to the five-legged scheme, which has better stability performance and is more friendly to users who prefer a steelless keyboard. In terms of silent structure, these two shaft bodies still add sound reduction components to the sidewall of the shaft seat, which can provide better sound reduction and noise reduction effects, and have also been fine-tuned in terms of shaft body key range and dynamics, which also slightly improves the feel. The total stroke of the two shaft bodies is 3.7mm; on the trigger stroke, the linear scheme is 1.9mm, and the paragraph scheme is 2.0mm; the trigger force is 40gf, and has a click life of about 70 million times, and the data performance is still relatively good.
Kaihua Nightshaft Pro continues the original structural scheme, using a large buckle fully transparent upper cover, with dust-proof wall cross shaft core and single-segment spring collocation scheme, in the pressing hand performance and the original shaft body is not much different. The large buckle structure, combined with the dust-proof cross shaft core, further reduces the shaft core shaking, which can bring users a more stable press feel performance. This shaft body has added silenced structural parts to the top of the shaft cover, the bottom of the shaft seat and the side wall of the shaft seat, which can effectively reduce the noise generated by the impact when touching the bottom and rebounding, and further improve the quiet performance of the shaft body. The shaft body is also lubricated with less lubrication, only some grease is visible on the shaft sidewall, the spring lubrication is low, and the spring sound or shrapnel sound can be occasionally heard when pressing.
Compared with the original shaft body, the shaft cover part has been changed from the previous black transparent to full transparency, which still has a certain improvement in light performance. Although the length of the spring has not changed, the wire diameter is thinner and there are no traces of lubrication. In addition to the color matching adjustment in the shaft seat part, the Pro version also adds a white sound-attenuated structure, which can further reduce the noise generated when the shaft body is pressed and collides with the side wall and slides, resulting in better silent performance.
In terms of practical performance, after replacing it with a fully transparent shaft cover, the upper cover line is clearer and more transparent, and the aesthetics of the shaft body are also greatly improved, and the axis with different colors looks more three-dimensional. In terms of hand feeling performance, the linear axis body pressing feels smooth and linear, the rebound is light, soft and natural, and the hand feel performance is still very good. The paragraph sense of the paragraph axis body is clear, the paragraph is relatively advanced, the bottom and rebound force are slightly heavier, and the hand feedback is stronger than the linear axis body. The two shafts still need to be strengthened in internal lubrication, and there will be occasional noises when pressing, and the internal sound-deadening structure does not bring obvious flesh, and the bottom feel is stable and solid, which is softer than the ordinary shaft body.
Kaihua NightShaft Pro is equipped with a fully transparent shaft cover, and the lamp position part still continues the flat light guide structure, which is still very friendly to the current mainstream patch RGB lamp beads. The full translucency scheme also has a higher light transmission performance, and also has a certain bonus effect for light divergence and refraction. Make the keyboard light look soft and comfortable, but also further enhance the keyboard's lighting effect perception, to create a better sense of lighting atmosphere.
summary:
Kaihua NightShaft Pro replaced the fully transparent shaft cover and added the shaft seat sidewall mute processing, which has improved in terms of overall appearance, mute performance and feel, and the five-legged shaft seat also makes the shaft body more firm after installation, and the installation compatibility has a good performance. Although it performs very well in smoothness and feel, the noise when pressing also requires the manufacturer to handle the interior better. This shaft will be officially released in the kailhboxswitch flagship store in the near future, and users who like to mute the shaft body may wish to consider it.