January 10, 2007

Blue Mouse

I was tired of the red LED in my Logitech optical mouse, so I changed it. It took me less than 10 minutes (including searching for an LED).

It is very simple, just open up the mouse, desolder the LED, replace it by a LED of your choice (blue in my case), put it back together, and thats it!

I also slightly bent the spring in the scroll wheel so it scrolls much smoothly and quietly.

By the way, I noticed a better performance of the mouse on surfaces where it failed to work properly in the past... weird, but cool.


LED Specs (for the curious):

Emitted Colour : OCEAN BLUE
Size: 5mm
Forward Voltage : 3.2 V ~ 3.8 V
Luminous Intensity: 6000 mcd
Max Continuous Forward Current : 30mA
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous21/2/07 22:47

    Looks good! I wonder why mouse manufactures have stuck with boring red?

    By the way, good choice on LED! ;)

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  2. Carlos9/3/07 00:20

    Thanks for the comment and the link. And you're right, the LEDs are good ;)

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  3. Anonymous12/4/07 14:03

    I'd imagine manufacturers don't use blue because they are usually a bit more expensive, and when you make thousands of the things, pennies add up pretty quickly.

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  4. Akoi Meexx10/9/08 10:22

    Any idea if there's any particular colors you should avoid using?

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  5. Carlos11/9/08 12:52

    Mr Evil,
    Any light color should work as long as it is bright enough (I suppose).

    I hope this helps.

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