Gateron Magnetic Jade Emerald Switch Review

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Hey all,

This is definitely the one to throw all of your expectations of normalcy out of the window. This review is a deep dive not just on the Gateron Magnetic Jade Emerald switches but the first tactile Hall Effect switches to come out of the modern HE switch craze. I wonder if Gateron is on to something with this unexpected mashup…

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I still haven’t really ventured into HE at all myself mostly because of the sound issue. Seems like almost all HE switches are all bottom out due the much larger contact area & the magnet itself. Makes me wonder how much difference recessing the magnet a up in the stem a little bit so you get just plastic on plastic on the bottom out would make? You could even take away some of the plastic so it bottoms out on just a few points too which theoretically would help with sound even more. I think if you can eliminate having to bottom out directly on the magnet it would go a long way to tempering the bottom out sound of HE switches IMHO.

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I wanna know if they made molds for a hybrid MX/HE switch, since it seems totally doable with this design. If they’re going to include the leaf mechanism just for tactile feedback, might as well include the contacts, too! :zany_face:

Not all HE switches do a bottom out – I know there were more than a few which were just open at the bottom (probably to get the magnet closer to the board). Weren’t there also some HE boards that actually had holes in them?

I have found at least 3 reasonably silent HE switches (there are probably more):

  • Haimu Snow
  • Glorious Lynx HE
  • Glorious Panda HE Silent Tactile (uses a dampened Outemu V-style clicky mechanism)

So, there’s no reason why they can’t make dampened hall effect switches, no matter how close the magnet needs to get. Just have some part of the slider coated with dampening material that makes contact before the magnet hits bottom.

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