Razer Huntsman Elite Gaming Keyboard Teardown

Geschrieben von: Will Huang
Veröffentlicht: 24/12/21
  • Kommentare: 14

Razer Huntsman Elite Gaming Keyboard Teardown

Veröffentlicht: 24/12/21

Teardown

Einleitung

I noticed some of the keyboard switches kept sticking and had lost their 'clicky' sound. After inspecting the keyboard switches, I found this was due to debris and grease accumulation over time.

This teardown tutorial is my attempt to clean up the switches thereby resolving the sticky switches issue.

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    • Top view of the keyboard.

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    • Remove all key caps.

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    • There are screws in-between key switches. Remove all screws (see red circles).

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    • Under the 6 rubber grommets are 8 screws that need to be removed.

    You will have to pry off the bottom panel after that

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    • Nine screws secure the back LED logic board. Remove all of them.

    • The back LED logic board is connected to the main PCB by a cable. Carefully disconnect the cable.

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    • The transparent plastic gasket is tightly locked to the main frame. Use the jimmy tool to carefully remove the panel.

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    • There are 3 tiny screws that keep the main frame and the printed circuit board together. Remove the red circled screws before you separate them.

    I forgot this step and the screws fell off.

    The 2 that are together fix the media buttons, so watch out.

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    • There are two cables connected to the PCB. Carefully separate the main frame and the PCB, then disconnect the lower cable first.

    • With the lower cable disconnected, the PCB can be flipped upright so as to easily remove the upper cable.

    When removing these two cables, be careful and do not pull the cables themselves, but instead grab on to the plastic part (as you always should, anyway) because they slip out of the plastic connector very easily and it’s painful to get them back into their place

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    • Now the logic board is revealed and can be cleaned up.

    The board have some screws, I thought that removing them the board will be separated from the top case, but wasn't the case.

    How can I separate those? I want to try some painting and ?m not confident enough to just cover the holes.

    Patricio Fariña -

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Will Huang

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10 Kommentare

are the actual keys soldiered to the board or they are hot replaceable?

Tawshif Ahsan khan -

The switches have no electrical contacts, they are only mechanical components. The LED and photodiode that read each switch are soldered to the main PC board. So to answer your question: no, the switches are not soldered to the PCB.

Enrico Savazzi -

Does anyone know what kind of LED's are being used on this keyboard? The green on one of the LED's has burned out and I would like to replace it.

Valentino Damianou -

Anyone know if the rotary dial can be replaced? Mine does not act properly and turning it in one direction causes changes in value that are both inconsistent in value and direction. Very weird.

Armando Wirshing -

Just use some WD40 on it, I did it, had the same problem and it fixed it.

Jonathan José Ramírez Zaragoza -

Try to not use WD40 on PCB, use some teflon based lube.

Patricio Fariña -

Use CC cleaner

Stephan Cevallos -

Sounds like you got dust/dirt on the wheel of the optical encoder or on its optosensor. I would try first to blow clean compressed air into the rotary encoder (first you must disassemble the keyboard as described in the article, then you can access the encoder from its rear). Any fluid, oil, gunk or lubricant is likely to kill the encoder.

Enrico Savazzi -

My keyboard sometimes writes certain keys by it self, and when I start my computer it doesn’t work, so I need to disconnect it then restart the pc and reconnect it and wait for it to connect to the Razer synapse only then it work. Any way I can somehow fix it?

אליהו הנביא -

Does anyone know how to fix a broken key. Like the key is litearlly jammed and it won't comeback into its original position.

Antoni Kludka -