Hey all,
Did you forget that I had a review to post today? I almost forgot that I had a review to post today… Good thing someone else staying at this cabin with us mentioned ‘Northern Lights’ this morning. As promised, a Thursday review featuring the freshly released and excitingly colored Cherry MX Northern Light silent linears.
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As always, thank you all for the continued readership, love, and support. It’s great to know you all will put up with me even when I do strange posts times like this one. (Or at least you pretend to…) I feel lke it’s a bit of exceptional circumstances, as you’ll read, but even I too feel weird not having a review out on a Sunday morning!
Cheers,
Goat 
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Silent switches aren’t my cup of tea, but seeing this gives me hope Cherry is finally ready to expand to making some real deal boutique switches! Awesome work as always Goat!
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Cool. Maybe someone needs to propose switch ideas to them:
like Light Ergo Clear
They could call it Cherry MX Ice or something, white/clear stem with winter theme.
-spring like a 63.5 G Spirit Progressive
-Tactile bump redesigned so it does not catch on the upstroke
-Maybe reduce the peak tactile force somewhat
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Something between a brown & clear would be very interesting! Put my Salvation I built with Pewters back into rotation & I am really enjoying using light tactiles lately TBH!
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I agree! It isn’t a space that’s explored much.
I think the Gateron Longjing Tea may fall in between the two:
You can see from the subjective force diagram that it is larger than MX Brown, but may not be as large as a Clear.
I think they are interesting. A sharper version of that would be a ‘baby Clear.’
[BTW I built Longjing Tea with 14mm 60 G TX, but in retrospect, I think I would advise 15mm 60 G.]
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I’d be fine with an ergo clear, with the same bump, but didn’t feel and sound like sand. Oh yeah, and fix the oversized cruciform already. Basically make a Zealio V1 competitor.
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I completely agree.
I didn’t put it in the list a few posts back, but obviously making a normal-sized ‘X’ stem is a priority.
The MX2A housing is a step in the right direction for Clears, at least in terms of stability.
Zealio V1 and Durock Medium Tactile are notable for having bumps designed not to catch as much on the upstroke, allowing some fairly low spring weights on 1U keys.
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