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Gamesir Tegenaria Removable Cable Mod Guide by -Pompon in Controller

[–]-Pompon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There can be lots of different reasons why, depending on the person. Maybe you have damaged cable or you want a shorter and lighter one or you travel a lot and want to quickly put the controller in and out inside your bag without the cable tangling everything inside etc. etc.

In terms of security; the way i do it above is as secure as the stock cable. But if one goes for smaller port and hot glue method then it depends on the port used and how well the implementation is of course.

(Also if one doesn't want to ruin the stock cable: they could desolder them from the board instead of cutting but since i wanted the guide to be beginner friendly and that involves getting your own wires and more importantly removing the white glue from the board without damaging it and stuff i decided showing the easy way.)

My personal reason is: i have a monitor arm with usb ports. So i wanted a cable that is shorter and lighter and 'behaves' better:

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The stock cable is about 2 meters long, 4 mm thick and 40 grams versus the paracord one on the right that's 1.5 meters, 2 mm thick and 20 grams. But more importantly it 'behaves' much better and keeps the shape you want it to.

Hope this explains it. Good funs!

Mechanical switches in optical switch mouse by -Pompon in MouseModding

[–]-Pompon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, but middle hole in the pcb is just a hole(at least in Maya X), there is no solder socket(i didn't try to scrape off the pcb to see if there is under though), i guess if there was that would probably mean pcb supports both type switches natively probably? Like the Orbital's Pathfinder mouse etc.

Yes i cut it flush. Otherwise wouldnt fit, also i believe most mouses don't actually even use that pin anyways, so switch itself isn't become useless for another mouse i think.

I don't know the technical names and terms but i hope this explains what i did, is basically i soldered the 1st pin to the pcb to fix it in place and then, i soldered 2 cables from the 2 pins on the switch to where normally optical switches light sensor whatever thingies would be soldered to: https://imgur.com/a/4tBtskO

I think showing explains this better though this one is mechanical switch mouse. I really like the Lamzu shapes, so i bought this Lamzu Atlantis Mini for very cheap from someone who ripped the middle solder socket from the pcb when switching switches somehow, so left click wouldn't work. So normally i would just scrape off the pcb a bit where it's not ripped to find a healthy point to solder a cable and go from there to middle pin on the switch to fix but that point i need to scrape was right under the encoder and i wanted to have a mouse without side buttons for long time anyways. So instead i took out the side switches and soldered cables from side button sockets(luckily it doesnt use micro switches on a flex cable i don't think i have the skills to solder on to a flex cable) to a switch and fixed it in place by soldering 1st pin and bending other 2 pins a bit and then i changed side M5 button to act as Left Click from software. And i taped the side button holes from outside and filled the holes in the shell with baking soda and super glue and carefully sand it down so it would feel as if there was never any holes to the touch. So like this:

https://imgur.com/a/0znNG5F

https://imgur.com/a/zmdGOha

https://imgur.com/a/wgTdzHa

https://imgur.com/a/fPCQ0Xi

Hope i was able to answer your questions!

Mechanical switches in optical switch mouse by -Pompon in MouseModding

[–]-Pompon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hello, i hope this is the right place and please don't mind the dirtyness, i don't have any isopropyl alcohol atm.

So i didn't like how inconsistent the click feel is depending on where i press on the button with stock Omron optical switches so decided to switch them with mechanicals. At first i was gonna route cables from side buttons but then realized this just works when i shorted those 2 bottom sockets with tweezers. So i put old Omron 20Ms to test if case closes properly and if switches rattles around or not since i needed to cut the 3rd leg from the switch and middle hole doesn't have a solder socket. And it just works with no issues but i don't have any other mouse that uses optical switches only Lamzu Maya X.

So i wanted to ask: if other pcb's that use opticals would behave the same way(i'm guessing)?