Image courtesy of Tom's Hardware

Image courtesy of Tom's Hardware

Our texture analyzers are used to test a wide range of products. We’re always pleased to hear how our customers are using them. Tom’s Hardware, an online guide to technology products, recently wrote of their process for developing a method for testing mechanical keyboard switches using the TA.XTPlus. For this guide, Tom’s Hardware “settled on a test speed that captures enough of the key feel for us to draw some conclusions. The press is two seconds (the release is a little faster). Each test run produces the force curve of one switch and collects around 100 data points per millimeter of travel, total. Because there are over 100 individual keys on a full-size keyboard, then, testing a keyboard with switches that have 4mm of travel generates approximately 40,000 data points.”

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-we-test-mechanical-keyboards,4400.html#p1

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