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I was just wondering if someone had an answer to this. I bought a Labtec optical/wireless mouse (M/N:M-RAD92). My question is about the battery life of the two AAA batteries inside the mouse. It seems that I cannot turn the mouse off when not in use. The red optical light is always on. Is this normal for all wireless/optical mice? Any help would be appreciated. I contacted Labtec but no reply back. I also checked their faqs but no information there either. Thanks! |
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Breck Fontaine wrote:
Hello, I was just wondering if someone had an answer to this. I bought a Labtec optical/wireless mouse (M/N:M-RAD92). My question is about the battery life of the two AAA batteries inside the mouse. It seems that I cannot turn the mouse off when not in use. The red optical light is always on. Is this normal for all wireless/optical mice? Any help would be appreciated. I contacted Labtec but no reply back. I also checked their faqs but no information there either. Thanks! The red light needs to be on because this is the only way the mouse can detect movement. It would be unpractical to have an on/off switch because you would forget it's off each time you try to use it. I agree that when the computer is turned off it "should" power down the LED but the problem is that the mouse only has one way communication to the computer so it can't tell if the machine is on or not. In short this is common behaviour for wireless optical mice, use rechargables (most wireless optical mice came with them I thought) and you should see weeks between charges (the LED is bright but dims slightly when the mouse isn't being used and doesn't actually draw that much power). If it makes you feel better then wireless mechanical mice had/have the same problem, internally there are two (much smaller) LED's on the optical encoder wheels. My old logitec mechanical wireless mouse ran for many months on a single set of batteries |
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:56:45 -0500, Breck Fontaine
wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if someone had an answer to this. I bought a Labtec optical/wireless mouse (M/N:M-RAD92). My question is about the battery life of the two AAA batteries inside the mouse. It seems that I cannot turn the mouse off when not in use. The red optical light is always on. Is this normal for all wireless/optical mice? Any help would be appreciated. I contacted Labtec but no reply back. I also checked their faqs but no information there either. Thanks! Even if it drops down to a lower powered mode it still must have the light to detect when you're moving it to come back out of the lower power state. They are cheap devices, no receiver in mouse so it won't "konw" if system is turned off or (whatever), it has to be ready 24/7. It is normal that the polling interval (to determine if it should come out of sleep state) might vary. IIRC Microsoft's goes to sleep faster than Logitech's but I might have it backwards and have no idea where Labtec fits in, or if t even has a sleep state at all instead of full-powered all the time. Cordless optical mice eat batteries, fast enough that some have moved to AA instead of AAA batteries, which are roughly 2.5-3X the capacity and still you might not get 50 days out of a pair, but with AAA I'd expect a month isn't even possible unless you accept poor function as it runs batteries down to nothing, below voltages normally considered drained. You could get 2 pair of rechargeable AAA. |
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As always thanks for your advice.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:19:34 GMT, kony wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:56:45 -0500, Breck Fontaine wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if someone had an answer to this. I bought a Labtec optical/wireless mouse (M/N:M-RAD92). My question is about the battery life of the two AAA batteries inside the mouse. It seems that I cannot turn the mouse off when not in use. The red optical light is always on. Is this normal for all wireless/optical mice? Any help would be appreciated. I contacted Labtec but no reply back. I also checked their faqs but no information there either. Thanks! Even if it drops down to a lower powered mode it still must have the light to detect when you're moving it to come back out of the lower power state. They are cheap devices, no receiver in mouse so it won't "konw" if system is turned off or (whatever), it has to be ready 24/7. It is normal that the polling interval (to determine if it should come out of sleep state) might vary. IIRC Microsoft's goes to sleep faster than Logitech's but I might have it backwards and have no idea where Labtec fits in, or if t even has a sleep state at all instead of full-powered all the time. Cordless optical mice eat batteries, fast enough that some have moved to AA instead of AAA batteries, which are roughly 2.5-3X the capacity and still you might not get 50 days out of a pair, but with AAA I'd expect a month isn't even possible unless you accept poor function as it runs batteries down to nothing, below voltages normally considered drained. You could get 2 pair of rechargeable AAA. |
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Cordless optical mice eat batteries, fast enough that some
have moved to AA instead of AAA batteries, which are roughly 2.5-3X the capacity and still you might not get 50 days out of a pair, but with AAA I'd expect a month isn't even possible unless you accept poor function as it runs batteries down to nothing, below voltages normally considered drained. You could get 2 pair of rechargeable AAA. With my Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0, I get 5-6 months of heavy, daily use on AA. The wireless mouse I had prior ( also a WIE ) only got about 1.5 months out of AA. YMMV. |
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