RK Releases RG928 Backlit Mechanical Keyboard

Beijing time On October 29th, 2014, RK (Royal Kludge) released its first product, the RG928 mechanical keyboard. The RG928 uses the Crown Thai shaft, which is in the same name as Cherry, as a mechanical switch. It has a general monochrome backlit version and an RGB backlit version.

RK was founded in 2014. The brand name is Royal Kludge. Kludge generally refers to the price-friendly assembly machine. The Royal Kludge means that even a price-conscious assembler can have a beautiful appearance and excellent quality. RK's team consists of a group of peripheral enthusiasts and game enthusiasts who aim to bring China's localized peripheral concepts to foreign countries and create a global brand. RK's first product, the RG928, is a mechanical keyboard product, followed by a static capacitor product.

About Gode-Sleeve (Greetech-Switch)

Guantai itself is not a direct switch supplier. It is a relatively large switch OEM company. Its largest customer is Honeywell, and Honeywell and Cherry are the main switch competitors. Guan Tai axis and Cherry, also has four axes of black, red, tea, and blue, the life of four kinds of shafts are 50 million times, exactly the same as the Cherry axis.

About RG928

The RK Guantai shaft series was named RG (GR Greetech-Switch Series), and 928 was the birth date of the product. On September 28, 2014, this mold was formally put into production. In view of the current market full of mechanical keyboard products, to win market recognition must essentially change the product. After a long period of negotiations with Guantai Company, the two parties reached a switch supply agreement. RK uses the Guantai shaft in the core. This is the only shaft in the market that can compete with the Cherry shaft. The Crown Thai company also Provided a very strong comprehensive support, hoping to provide the majority of players and consumers with an open supply of high quality and inexpensive mechanical keyboard products, RG928 backlight mechanical keyboard price is only 299 yuan, while the traditional Cherry backlight keyboard The price is 499 yuan.

After deciding on the shaft body, the RG928 has also undergone several improvements in the process. It adopts a simple topless suspended structure design, and the lower cover adopts a narrow-edge C-angle treatment to make the product more refined. The metal surface cover of RG928 adopts sandblasting double-sided metal baking technology, which is beautiful and durable. The overall keyboard thickness has also been adjusted, the thinnest height is only 13.5mm.

RGB928 will have two versions of ordinary monochrome backlight and RGB backlight. The first will be a monochrome blue backlight, the backlight can adjust the brightness (a total of five brightness), has two modes of constant light and breathing, breathing speed Four sections can be adjusted. Keycap selection, RK928 uses ABS two-color molding keycap, uniform light transmission, font never wear. The RG928-RGB version will be announced later in detail and is still being finalized.

In addition to the above, RG928 has some basic functions, multimedia keys, Win key shield, USB acceleration, WADS and up and down, left and right key switch, etc. Detailed parameters and functions are as follows:

Product Model:RG928

Axis: Crown Thai Black/Red/Tea/Cyan No Chong: USB Full Key No Cushion USB Acceleration: Yes, 1st File 2x Accelerated Backlighting: Blue Backlight Effect: Steady, Breathing Light Two Modes, Brightness 5 Levels Adjustment , Breathing speed four-speed adjustment multimedia function keys: with Win key shield: special function keys: WASD, up and down and left and right interchangeable product size (without packaging): 435x146x39mm

Product weight (without packaging): 1.1KG

Official retail price: 299 (black axis) / 319 (other 3 axes) / RGB axis pending listing time: early November