Got the stick last week and i noticed less deadzone and bigger diagonal range in comparison to earlier ls-32-01 revision, so i took the thing off to see the new Omron switches and the situation is exactly the same as the stock F.A store pic (i thought my piece was used or something).
It’s not a compensation purpose like in the silent jlf which has a bigger actuator to compensate the different engagement of silent switches, the new ls-32-01 switch engage as fast as the earlier one.
The versatility for playing any game (including fighting) was the best ls-32 feature due to it’s fast but fair engagement and now they killed it. The ls-32-01 is now much more similar to the ls-40(-01) regarding engagement. Ok, so what they want is to make this stick even better for shooters? That’s cool but there are a LS-40/58 already and bend the levers to achieve this? How cheap! …they could just make a new actuator.
Well, some people may like the result but i still can’t understand why did they do this.
It is a compensation, but not the one you were thinking of, also, it was already discussed some time ago on the forums .
Basically, the panasonic switches (AM5 series) were discontinued years ago but the stocks were not depleted. In 2017, some stocks being depleted or near, Seimitsu decided to opt for a new switch, but they decided not to go with Panasonic anymore, so they went for omron, the problem being that despite outer dimensions which are practically identical (due to industrial norms, snap action microswitches need to conform to certain dimensions) , the actuating mechanism does not have the same characteristics between both series (V for Omron, Am5 for Panasonic. I already compared specs in the Korean thread many times, in detail ) , so to MIMIC the discontinued panasonic specs, there was no other choice than to use a levered switch with same operating force (120gf in the V series ) , I’d say the base is a V1526A5 (same as JLW switch before rebranding) , then have the lever bent industrially (NOt by hand) at a certain an gle such that the switch actuates at a depth close or same as if using a panasonic AM5, basically all it does is reducing deadzone, you could achieve the same by calculating the bend angle and space between lever / actuator and using simply JLW omron switches and an adequately oversized actuator.
If Seimitsu chose to have omron switches modified with “just” a bent hinge lever, it means it cost less for them to pay for that modification than to make new molds for oversized ls-32 and ls-40 actuators.
so you end up with an actuation distance virtually the same with the new modded omron compared to the old discontinued panasonic switch, but the other specs do not change and differ between both models mentioned.
It means that according to seimitsu, it was probably “close enough” without the need to order a omron-V series model customized so that is has all specs identical to discontinued switch. A total redesign involving the internal mechanism would have been MUCH more expensive than simply bending the external hinge lever at a specific angle.
