Silent Huano mouse switches


One of the switches in my mouse had died. After unsuccessful repair I had decided to replace them.

I started to like silent mouse switches, so I chose some from Aliexpress. The cost of them is $0.3 per piece with fixed shipping fee of $0.91.

The replacement process went surprisingly well. After opening up the mouse, I had added additional solder to the old switches and then placed micro soldering iron in parallel with the PCB. This allowed me to easily heat all three switch contacts at once. Then using a small screwdriver placed into the dent at the bottom of the switch I pulled it out of the PCB. Some of the holes were already without a solder and for rest of them I used solder sucker to remove the solder.

Then I quickly assembled back the mouse and it is working! It is still possible to hear the clicks, but I think the body of the mouse itself has big effect on the sound. But the sound is now muffled and quiet.