Does the spacebar take more power?

**ClickHere2Surf.com** · March 4th, 2005, 07:09 PM

Igot a message sayingmy keyboard battery is low and since then as you can see my keyboardis missing a huge amount of spaces, it's not metyping badly because I neverhad this before.

Would replacing the battery solve this? I'm really in a huge mess the drain pipes are broken I need to get the entire front ofthe house destroyed and the entire pipes replaced and I don't wanna loose more time going to buy batteries if you don't think that's theproblem.

Thanks

**emr** · March 5th, 2005, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com

Igot a message sayingmy keyboard battery is low and since then as you can see my keyboardis missing a huge amount of spaces, it's not metyping badly because I neverhad this before.

Would replacing the battery solve this? I'm really in a huge mess the drain pipes are broken I need to get the entire front ofthe house destroyed and the entire pipes replaced and I don't wanna loose more time going to buy batteries if you don't think that's theproblem.

Thanks

Keyboardisdefinitelynottheproblemtrynewbattery?

**Larommi** · March 5th, 2005, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com

Igot a message sayingmy keyboard battery is low and since then as you can see my keyboardis missing a huge amount of spaces, it's not metyping badly because I neverhad this before.

Would replacing the battery solve this? I'm really in a huge mess the drain pipes are broken I need to get the entire front ofthe house destroyed and the entire pipes replaced and I don't wanna loose more time going to buy batteries if you don't think that's theproblem.

Thanks

Any time i have something that runs on batteries and it quits working right, I try replacing the batteries first.

**arch0nmyc0n** · March 5th, 2005, 02:07 PM

Do what I do, have an emergency set of batteries taped to the inside of the computer case. That way nobody knows they're there but me... that's where I used to hide my smokes when I was underage...

**ClickHere2Surf.com** · March 5th, 2005, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Larommi

Any time i have something that runs on batteries and it quits working right, I try replacing the batteries first.

Yes, especially since I get a message in Windows saying my keyboard batteries were low, I'll go get new ones soon.

**Ferrit** · March 5th, 2005, 05:57 PM

Buy a set of rechargeables witha charger they are pretty cheap now and work well except in digital cameras

**Green_Eyed** · March 7th, 2005, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

Buy a set of rechargeables witha charger they are pretty cheap now and work well except in digital cameras

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I have a wireless optical mouse that likes to go through batteries. I thought rechargeable batteries would be the way to go. I have spares, so I always have a pair in the mouse and can even have a dead pair with one good pair waiting. For some reason they are not keeping the charge so now I'm back to Duracells in the desk drawer. :-(

**ClickHere2Surf.com** · March 10th, 2005, 05:00 PM

New batteries fixed it.

It's not worth getting rechargeables to me since they last nearly a year.

If your rechargeables aren't holding their charge:
-Make sure they arent the cheap type that recharges only 25 times and that your 25 times are up
-Make sure to never let them drain until they die otherwise they'll never properly hold a charge again
-If they're nicad, get rid of them and get nimh or better yet, lithium

**bbtech6650** · March 14th, 2005, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by arch0nmyc0n

Do what I do, have an emergency set of batteries taped to the inside of the computer case. That way nobody knows they're there but me... that's where I used to hide my smokes when I was underage...

It gives a new meaning to a "smokin' computer"....lol :butt: just couldn't resist...

**arch0nmyc0n** · March 14th, 2005, 02:45 PM

heh, well... nobody thought to check inside the computer... it made the smoke go stale faster mind you... but I didn't care... they still tasted bad...

**WebHead** · March 14th, 2005, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com

...-Make sure to never let them drain until they die otherwise they'll never properly hold a charge again...

Actually, they will last longer if discharged completely as often as possible. Especially the NiCAD's with NiMH being the second worst offenders of that imfamous battery memory issue. Li batt's don't need to be discharged as often, but still do need it once in awhile.

Basically, you just want to make sure you properly condition your NiCD and NiMH batteries from the beginning to maximize their lifespan. This means charging, discharging completely 3 times and then using normally after that.

Rechargeable batteries normally have an approx 300 charge lifespan btw.

For more: Here's something i found on the web
http://www.cellpower.com/battery_tips.cfm

**confus-ed** · March 14th, 2005, 03:12 PM

He-he my wireless keyboard is two & 1/2 years old now & still on the same batteries

**ClickHere2Surf.com** · March 14th, 2005, 03:29 PM

"Actually, they will last longer if discharged completely as often as possible."

Not the lithiums, that is suicide for lithiums and will kill it immediately. I thought only nicad needed that, and I've read discharging nimh often is bad as well.

Anyway, I can tell u my first pocket pc with maybe 4 hours battery life lasted 5-10 minutes after discharging it fully a few times. Lithiums should never be drained fully and should be kept as full as often as possible, and maybe one or two discharge/charge cycle per year.

**ClickHere2Surf.com** · March 14th, 2005, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

He-he my wireless keyboard is two & 1/2 years old now & still on the same batteries

Infrared? Might as well get wired instead of IR, I find IR much more trouble than wires.

**WebHead** · March 14th, 2005, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com

"Actually, they will last longer if discharged completely as often as possible."

Not the lithiums, that is suicide for lithiums and will kill it immediately. I thought only nicad needed that, and I've read discharging nimh often is bad as well.

Anyway, I can tell u my first pocket pc with maybe 4 hours battery life lasted 5-10 minutes after discharging it fully a few times. Lithiums should never be drained fully and should be kept as full as often as possible, and maybe one or two discharge/charge cycle per year.

Well, I'm speaking from my experience at AT&T Wireless and what most cell phone manuals documented. When I first started working there, we were still using TDMA as the primary network and most phones used NiMH at the time (Nikia 5100/6100 series). Then later, as GSM rolled out, more and more phones were using Li Ion. As a "communications specialist" (that's what they called us) it was my job to know as much as I could about each product in order to have a better ability to sell it. So I read through most of the manuals and they all specified the same thing (basically what I posted above) more or less.

Here is more information on this from Apple.com on notebook batteries:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html

And from HP:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...ectID=tis03248