Disassembly

It is likely that some damage will be done to the plastic case, so only take this keyboard apart if you have no other recourse. The two-piece plastic case construction requires one to carefully pry apart the interlocking tabs, and you will see plastic guides on either side of the tabs that require even more leverage to be applied to separate even then. Start at the bottom and work your way around the sides, after which it will get easier on the fourth side. We see that the top panel piece is quite thin and houses diffusers for the indicator LEDs at the front of the PCB.


To remove the bottom panel, you need to access just four screws placed underneath and between specific keycaps as seen above. One of the screws is under a QC sticker, so there will be a tell-tale sign of disassembly. Once done, the plate/PCB section can be lifted upwards and away to access the internal cable going from the battery to the PCB.


Disconnect this internal cable and you can fully separate the remaining two main pieces. There's not much to see on the bottom case panel, but be aware of the physical slider housing for the Bluetooth on/off switch; it should be oriented correctly with the toggle slider on the PCB before re-assembly. We also see the 1800 mAh battery inside insulation, which is about average these days for wireless mechanical keyboards with some form of lighting associated for all the keys. The switches go through a steel plate and are soldered onto the matte black PCB.


Solder quality is very good for all the components, including the switches and the Type-C connector, in addition to the physical slider switch used to turn on or off the Bluetooth transceiver. Powering the keyboard is a Vision VS11K17A 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 USB microcontroller for wired mode, and wireless operation is taken care of by a Pixart PAR2801QN Bluetooth 5.0 transceiver. All the components, including the switches, LEDs, and capacitors, are soldered to a multi-layered PCB.

Before we move on, be advised that disassembly may void the warranty and that TechPowerUp is not liable for any damages incurred if you decide to go ahead and do so anyway.