Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop Wireless Keyboard Batteries are self-draining / get empty very fast

I have a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop Wireless Keyboard and recognized, that the batteries get empty much faster than say in the technical data sheet. According to the manual they are supposed to stand "36 month typical".

How-I-fixed-it:
I'm travelling a lot with the keyboard in the backpack. In case a key on the keyboard is pressed while in the backpack the whole time, it seems to keep trying to send this event to the receiver, even if the receiver is not plugged into the computer's USB port. So it's constantly sending and emptying the batteries.

In this case either remove the batteries before putting it into the backpack or find a case to avoid the keys being pressed.

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