Gateron Cap - Brown?

Fascinating typing finding. Don’t meant to spam the board, but interesting comparisons here.

I have a board with N-facing LEDs [RAKK Lam Ang Pro], so I only use tall keycaps on it.

I was testing the CAP Milky Brown with some ABS MT3 keycaps. Turns out it feels and performs very close to some 65 G [14mm] TX Ergo Clears on that same board. These Ergo Clears were carefully lubed with 205g0 to improve sound and operation, without compromising tactility. Filmed with TX films.

The CAP Milky Brown are the closest switches on there to these 65 G Ergo Clears. The overall force used and kinetic impulse is similar.

The main differences are that the Cherry Ergo Clears have a more subtle pre-travel, in which you can gently depress the switch to a greater degree before ramping up, and also that the Cherry switch has a more plasticy Cherry sound, especially with the films, whereas the Milky Browns are cleaner-sounding and a little lower-pitched.

The travel of the Milky Browns is a little more rapid, so I find it bottoming-out a little more harshly. The 205g0 allieviates that somewhat in the Ergo Clears.

I personally enjoy typing on the 65 G Ergo Clears as they were built really well, but they are hard to get this way [the right films, careful use of 205g0, etc…] whereas Milky Browns are close out-of-box. I could almost populate the whole board with Milky Browns and have a nice MT3 board ready-to-go, but it bothers me knowing the 65 G TX are just a little better…

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