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Eclipse Special Edition Red Illuminated Keyboard


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Keyboard USB internally illuminated with Red LEDs
Designed to work with PC's,( Windows 98 SE or later, including VIsta) but will work 96% with Mac's (see below)

For use in Astronomy, night navigation, security, gamers or any other uses that require the use of a PC in the dark, and you need to preserve your dark adaptation, or just in dim illumination where it is hard to read the keyboard, or is you just want a very high quality keyboard to use with you computer or laptop

Weight 2 pounds, 5 ounces
Shipping weight 4 pounds
Cord length 6 feet
Power consumption 1.5 watts

Price $49.95 plus shipping ($10.00) = $59.95 (non Massachusetts) USA & Canada Delivery
If you live in Massachusetts, we have to add 5% sales tax.
Price $49.95 plus shipping ($10.00) and Massachusetts residents add 5% sales tax = $62.45

Delivery to Mexico, South America, the EU and other over seas destinations $49.95 + $24.00 shipping = 73.95
USA & Canada Delivery Only
Europe, Mexico, South Amercai and Overseas Delivery

You can also order by calling our Toll Free number ( 800-336-9054) during business hours, using a credit card or an institutional Purchase Order.

It is a well made, heavy keyboard of the standard 104 key layout.
It has a detachable wrist rest, big rubber feet to keep it from slipping and flip up legs for tilting the keyboard at an angle.

There is where the similarity with standard keyboards ends.
The keys are coated with a metallic titanium colored material, and then a laser is user to burn the material off to shape the key legend. Then each key has a red LED under it that shines through the legend.

There are three additional Status LED's; Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock.
There is no power indicator. When the LEDs are off, there is no indication if the computer is on.

There are four additional buttons on the upper right side of the keyboard.
Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute on/off, and a dimming control that is used to set the LED brightness to High, Medium or off.

If used with a PC or PC notebook running XP the keyboard will work a long with the existing PS/2 or built in keyboard
It works well with Notebook computers having USB ports
On some PC's you may want to go into the BIOS settlings, peripheral page and enable USB Keyboard support.

Tested with an Apple I-book
Under OS9 most keys worked, but the num lock feature didn't and the numeric keypad stayed in the numeric mode and the three lock key status LEDs didn't work.
Under OS-X The num lock still didn't work, but the three status LEDs worked.
The sound control keys did not work under either OS

There is no disk or software that comes with the keyboard. It is all built into the on board ROM, and when plugged into an XP machine, XP self installs the proper driver to make the volume keys work. There is no way I have found yet to put the LED's under computer control.

Not RoHS compliance.
Limited supply



Shown at high brightness level, can also dim.




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