My mouse is eating batteries.

welshbookworm

I had a Logitec Mouse and Keyboard and junked after a few months as it seemed to eat batteries!

Kernel_Sanders

Gazza1964 wrote: »

Try going for a higher strength battery - the highest I have are 2900 but i am sure i have seen over 3000mAH advertised.

mAh is a measure of capacity, not 'strength', which brings me to my own problem. I have a remote mouse that has never worked, or even lit up. I've only got rechargables, and these measure 2.49 volts at that end of the battery compartment. Could it require more, just to light up?

Paradigm

I've never understood the fascination for wireless mice/keyboards.

What are the supposed advantages?

vyle

Paradigm wrote: »

I've never understood the fascination for wireless mice/keyboards.

What are the supposed advantages?

Wireless keyboards....no freakin clue.

Wireless mice, however, I've got a wireless logitech MX150 (i think) and I love it. It's rechargable through USB so I don't worry that its battery lasts about two months...but its benefits...

Well, I've got loads of cables going to and from my PC, and with standard mice, they always seem to snag on something and I find them extremely uncomfortable to use. Like, I can have just the one cable coming straight up from the pc, with nothing else in the way, and I feel like I reach a point of resistance, and it just drives me crazy. I have no such issues with a wireless mouse. My keyboard just stays in one place though, so I'm happy to have it plugged in.

Nilrem

Re batteries for wireless keyboards and mice.

For mice I'd recommend either getting good quality ones like Duracell Ultra (you can normally get them buy one get one free, or 100% free in the pack), or if you've got other device that use the same size batteries, a decent charger, and some of the eneloop/hybrio rechargables (the sort that don't self dicharge).
I tend to find a pair of the Uniross "ready to use" eneloop batteris last me months in my wireless mouse.


As to why wireless mice and keyboards, in the case of the mouse it's much easier to use when you're not dealing with a cable that loves to get snagged (it also seems the mouse lasts longer when it's not got a cable that is being stressed a lot of the time where it enters the mouse).
For the keyboard, it lets me lift the keyboard out of the way if I want to do something else on my desk, and the pair of them mean that if I want to, I can use the keyboard and mouse in front of the TV

bluesnake

I have wireless mouse too. My stock batteries lasted 3 months. I then bought the really expensive lithium ones from duracell that supposed to last 3-4 times longer, expecting a year, but actually lasted 4 months and suddenly stopped working.

I now buy the pound shop alkaline multipack ones. The first set has been in there 6 months an is still working.

I usually leave my mouse switched on 24/7

the problem with rechargeable, they have higher internal leakage, so the batteries flatten faster. Current stats suggest that higher the capacity of the NiMh cell much more leakage it has. I think the really high ones only store a usable amount of energy for up to a few weeks of storage before becoming unusable, while the lower capacity A/h ones give a longer storage time. Mice use very little current, and most rechargeables are designed around current eating radios and toys.

Nilrem

Re the rechargable batteries self discharging, iirec the hybrid ones have a very low self discharge rate (something like 5-10% over 6 months), the eneloops in my mouse are lasting almost as long as the duracells I used to use

The trick is to get the low discharge types.