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I going to rig this dirt cheap wireless mouse with a 9 volt battery. I'm sick of changing triple A's every week, damn it.
Sunday, 01-Mar-15 16:57:23 UTC from web-
@beatstrings Make absolutely sure you know what you're doing. Two triple As do NOT equal 9 volts.
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@techdisk it depends wether its in series or not
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@techdisk I'm not going to tape it willy nilly, I need a capacitor to lower it to 1.5 volts without losing any power.
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@beatstrings good deduction, i approve!
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@rednorth Yup,I need to find some series small enough to fit, or if I must I'll just make an a board adjacent to the battery, only thing I'll risk is the aesthetics.
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@beatstrings Resistor. Not capacitor.
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@beatstrings Also you'd be surprised how much more time simply switching to a double A gives you.
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@techdisk If I switched to double A I have to make a wedge vertically and horizontally, I'll keep that in mind.
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@beatstrings Seriously, though. Unless you have a DC power converter for 9 volts down to 1.5, don't use the 9 volt. Use the double A. Or buy a new mouse.
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@techdisk I'll look for a converter, listing the option of triple A and I am so poor I could only pay for my food and my tuition.
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@beatstrings Double
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@techdisk I bought this mouse many months, maybe even a year ago. I've gone through exactly one battery for it.
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@techdisk I don't even have money! The coins I'm using for bus fare came from sweeping my room yesterday.
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@beatstrings Well mod in that double A.
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@beatstrings Because I don't think there are 9 --> 1.5 converters.
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@techdisk I'll save it, if I could wedge the body to make the battery fit well enough, then I won't buy it, or maybe I'll save my sorrow and just stick with thing ungraceful touchpad.
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@beatstrings I honestly highly recommend that mouse. As I said. I've only changed its battery once after more than a year of usage.
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@beatstrings Plus, the site I gave you is in Canadian money. Its probably much less in the US.
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@techdisk There is, just not small enough. Do you think I could just stick two of them together, solder some space for both to fit? I.E. just double the capacity without changing the amp and volts?
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@techdisk I'll just use this if all else fails http://pny.lv/coj4
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@beatstrings I want one of those...
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@techdisk It would at least save our arguments, nice to meet an engineer around here. :)
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@beatstrings You mean the batteries, or the converter? You only ever need one converter. Multiple batteries connected IN PARALLEL will increase time.
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@beatstrings :P electronics is fun.
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@techdisk The batteries, yeah. Also 30 bucks for a durable mouse, I can't go wrong but like I said, I don't have any cash on me. I might get some after we rear beetles and sell them to collectors.
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