Editing Hi-Tek Series 725 (section)

==Variations==
===Linear===
White slider, with one or two eyes, beige slider (two eyes), or grey slider (one eye). Space bar can be white or neon green.<ref>geekhack — [http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=4757.msg68398#msg68398 Weird keyboard is here.]</ref> The LED variant has a magenta slider.

Two-eye white sliders have the click track from a click switch, but the click arm is simply omitted in linear keyboards.

===Tactile===
Grey slider (two eyes), beige slider (one eye), and black slider (two eyes). Space bar likely to use a neon green slider, which will be linear — tactile keyboards appear to all use linear space bar switches. The LED variant has a pink slider.

In tactile variants, tactility is provided by the contact leaves. On a tactile variant, the contact leaves have a single extra kink on each arm. As the slider bar is depressed, it moves through these extra kinks before allowing the contacts to touch. This extra resistance from the additional kinks provides tactility on the down-stroke and upstroke, with the upstroke being slightly more pronounced. The contact separator bar within the slider is also narrower, to fit within the reduced spacing between the contacts.

Some tactile keyboards use pink switches under the [[lock key]]s; notwithstanding the different colour and slider planform, the difference with these switches is not known.

===Clicky===
Black slider, or white slider (two eyes), and white, black, cyan or blue or brown for the space bar. While tactile keyboards appear to all use linear switches, clicky keyboards use clicky switches for space bar.

The click is achieved by way of a plastic follower arm that runs inside an external groove at the rear of the slider.<ref>YouTube — [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUqYADAkwhE NMB Hi-Tek Trailing arm click]</ref> This follower arm is plainly visible and accessible without needing to dismantle the switch. This arm also provides the tactility, so the kinks in the contact leaves used in the tactile switches are unnecessary in clicky switches, and are omitted.

===Latching action===
The latching variant is black with an eye in the dead centre (instead of the usual N or NE/NW positions). The slider contains a latch track, and the latch arm is connected to the switch shell and faces upwards into the track.<ref name="laugh" />

===Integrated LED===
There are both tactile (pink) and linear (magenta) versions with integrated LED support. Unlike most switches, these have two LED holes, at the NE and NW corners. The corresponding slider corners are tapered away, with the keycap mounting recess moved to the N position.