Cordless Optical Mouse rrrrrr
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Cordless Optical Mouse rrrrrr
I have a Logitech cordless optical mouse, with 4 buttons and the wheel. I really love it, unfortunately the thing chews up batteries. They last about 3 weeks, no matter what brand I get. Anyone else experience this?
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Same problem here. I now use re-chargeable batteries for the mouse. If you don't want to go the re-chargeable route, you can extend the battery life by removing the batteries when the mouse is not in use. Cordless optical mice send a signal out to the base station even when the computer is turned off.
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that's why i never got one.
btw they make pretty good rechargable batteries now... got a charger for my girlfriend cuz her digital camera really eats batteries and i was stopping at the pharmacy for batteries every time we went somewhere
btw they make pretty good rechargable batteries now... got a charger for my girlfriend cuz her digital camera really eats batteries and i was stopping at the pharmacy for batteries every time we went somewhere
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I have used Radio Shack green NiMH rechargeable batteries in my cordless Intellimouse Explorer for a couple of years now. I use my machine a LOT. I use a fast NiCd / NiMH battery charger Radio Shack #23-422 with a couple pairs of batteries. I am not supposed to store the batteries in the charger but the charger stops charging and keeps them topped off. I just swap the battery pairs when the mouse tells me they are low. The bad thing is that when it asks to notify me in a week it should be asking to notify me in 30 minutes. That notice comes with about an hour of battery life left. The rechargeable batteries don't last as long and they don't taper off in as long a slope as regular batteries do. The rechargeable battery voltage drops off fast at the end.
I like the cordless mouse because corded mice cords go bad rapidly. The LASER sensor works a lot better than a ball.
I used the same battery charger for my digital camera batteries before the camera was stolen.
I like the cordless mouse because corded mice cords go bad rapidly. The LASER sensor works a lot better than a ball.
I used the same battery charger for my digital camera batteries before the camera was stolen.
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I used to have an cordless mouse, until I found out it was zapping my modem. Something it was transmitting was causing problems with my USR modem. Getting lots of errors, what I called death pauses where I would not get any transmission for 15 to 20 seconds at a time. Finally had a problem with the mouse and went back to a corded mouse. As soon as I did this the modem problems went away. I have heard of cordless keyboards causing similar problems, but this was a first with a mouse.
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A guy I work with has one where the mouse itself docks in a charger when not in use, keeping the batteries charged. It seems to work pretty good.
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Originally Posted by Torque1st
Any RF field can interfere with electronic devices. It is strange that a device inside your computer case would be affected tho. That is a very low power field also.
Although now that I think about it, it was a Microsoft cordless mouse. No surprise it interfered with other electronics.
Last edited by kingfish51; Nov 5, 2004 at 09:01 AM.
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I just replaced mine for the first time... that means the batteries lasted 7 months. And they were the cheapy batteries that came with it. It is the mouse that is part of dell's wireless mouse and keyboard package. The keyboard batteries are still going.
I wonder why some go so much faster than others...
I wonder why some go so much faster than others...
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I use my computer about 10-12 hours per day.
My Microsoft cordless mouse does not interfere with my cable modem or anything else.
kingfish51, are you sure the mouse or modem did not have a hardware interrupt or software problem? I had all kinds of device driver problems with W-2000.
My Microsoft cordless mouse does not interfere with my cable modem or anything else.
kingfish51, are you sure the mouse or modem did not have a hardware interrupt or software problem? I had all kinds of device driver problems with W-2000.
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No hardware or software problems. The mouse worked fine until it went out on me. Doesn't mean that there wasn't something wrong with it all the time, but I had no problems with the mouse for about 4 months. Then it started skipping like it had a low battery, but replacing the batteries didn't fix it. When I reported that the problem had gone away to the ISP I had at the time, I had been trying to find the problem with the modem, they stated they had not heard of this with a mouse, but had seen it with other wireless devices, like a keyboard.
