Re: Can static electricity kill your mouse?

On 2/15/2025 5:53 PM, PW wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:24:30 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

On 2/14/2025 6:20 AM, Mike S. wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:21:35 -0700, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
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This was happening all the time with a new Razor Deathadder Pro latest
model, the one that gets the best reviews.  Everytime I touched it
would zap and and turn my Alienware monitor off.  Corsair mousepad.

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Razor went down the crapper years ago.  I won't touch them any more.
First mouse from then was great, but the second I couldn't get an
account set up so I could download and get the software to program it
which meant it was little better than a standard $5 mouse, and it died
after 6 months.
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The 502 hero I have now is fine, but I find the extra buttons a bit hard
to use and software leaves a bit to be desired.  A bit difficult to set up.
>

The owner of my local Radio Shack (yes, very lucky to have one here)
suggested a mouspad that plugs into an outlet.  I think it is from
China.  I bought it from Amazon.  Let me know if you need the model.
Heck, let me look it up.  Hang on :-)
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Any way, it works great!  The shocks haven't totally gone away but it
is not affecting my monitor.
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Oh, I switched back to a corsair mouse before using the grounded
mousepad and the shocking went away. Only happens with the Deathadder
Pro.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0935Y9C8J?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_5&th=1
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I have it under my hard Corsair mouse pad by the way.
Description just says Grounding Mouse pad
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-pw

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Thank you PW. I bookmarked your link. For now, I am going to stop
worrying about it. I was thinking of adding a humidifier to my room.
It *might* help my electronics but it will definitely help me. The air
is very dry in here which is what is causing the electrical shocks I
think.

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Ideal humidity for electronics is at 50% (which I find feels a bit damp
to me from the few clean-rooms I've been in, and I also find that 50%
feels odd.)
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 I have humidors in my guitars.  Sponges in a plastic case that I put
between the strings and the sound hole.
 The DeathAdder Pro basically has no buttons besides the very basic.
They can be programmed but why do I want to mess aroung with the LMB,
RMB and two back/forth broser buttons?  And to adjust the sensitivity,
that button is on the bottom of the mouse!
 What do you use Justisaur?  Maybe I will go back to Corsair or
Logitech.

I've got the logitech hero G502.  It's o.k. It's in no way equal to my old Razor mouse The extra buttons are a bit hard to actually use.  The software for setting up the buttons to do stuff is annoying to deal with too.
I don't understand why the hell you would want weights in them either, I immediately took them out and threw them away after playing for about a half hour and started getting fatigued. I don't want lights on my mouse either.
I might try a redragon (is that red-ragon, re-dragon or red-rage-on?) as I got a keyboard after my last crapped out, which is pretty good, though I hate having to set up the lights any time the power goes out as there's no software to save the settings (or if so it loses them and there's no way to reload them after a power outage.)  Or maybe I just need a battery backup.
Razor will be never again after they screwed me over with having no way to set up an account, not responding to my emails, which is required. get their software to configure my last mouse and it dying within 6 months.
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-Justisaur
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