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Re:Keyboard latency by DigitalJack on Monday October 16, 2017 @08:43PM (#15487842)
Do they spec the force in newtons? Without mass, g’s don’t really say much except as maybe a relative measure between things of the same mass.
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Re:Keyboard latency by uxp on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:04PM (#15487930)
'g' is gram-force. It's the weight required to "click" the switch over it's actuation point. 1 Gram is equivalent to 0.980665 centinewton, so for most measurements of keyboard switches, g's and cN's are used interchangeably.
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Re:Keyboard latency by DigitalJack on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:07AM (#15497434)
Wow, ok. Never heard of g in that sense. I work in aerospace, so that is probably why.
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