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A story of two young batteries who went out to see the world.

I was visiting my ailing brother, who was in Peru with his wife, and my
mouae stopped working. A computer store only 7 blocks away sold me a
wireless mouse, Teraware brand -- Is that good? Anyone ever hear of
it?

Got back to my brother's and it wouldn't work. An, needs batteries. Wish
they'd reminded me before I left. Ah, my little LED flashlight has 3 AAA batteries. Put two in, still doesn't work.

I usually travel with a voltmeter, small combo philips and flat
screwdriver, tape measure, and something else which I guess I did not
bring.

Batteries measure low, which surprises me since the light from this 3"
long 9 LED light is so bright I can't look into it. I have several
little flashlights and I brought the brighest. Maybe my little meter is
bad, after all it's 20 years old and I've never really used it before

Come home to better meter. 1.14, 1.13, and 1.125 v. Don't know which 2
I usd but they are all low. And yet the light is so bright. This
conforms to what Jeff and Miguel told me in an earlier thread, the LEDs
take very little current (and less than the nominally required voltage).

Another interesting thing: My sil has a glass dining room table, and
the wired Dell mouse that is about 10 years old will not work on it,
because it's clear, I guess. But the wireless mouse works fine!!

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one
goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that.
Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?
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On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one
goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that. Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
ESEfc-Efc+, EUEfc-Efc|;
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one
goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that.
Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.

Mouse button switches are usually miniature alcoswitch types with
pretty good immunity to 'bounce'.

You should check your computer mouse reader software settings - they
can be adjusted to ignore clicks that repeat too quickly.

In Windows; Control panel - mouse - double-click speed (~ sliding
adjustment)

If it is the swiches and only the left one gives trouble, open
the mouse up and desolder/swap the two switches. (There is no
right mouse button double-click).

RL
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In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:27:52 -0400, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one
goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that.
Similar problem with other software too.

The store had maybe 20 models of mouse for sale, some over 100 dollars,
gaming mice. This was the cheapest, except for one wired mouse. They
had 3 or 4 hooks full of this one, and the webpage and one of the hooks promoted it. Never heard of Teraware, but they had other stuff by that
brand.

The mouse was only $7.81, actually 24.90 Sols, S/24.90. I'll have to see
what the cheapest wireless mouse costs in the US. (This makes the wired
mouse about 3 dollars!!) I had to look on my credit card statement, or
the store webpage. I couldnt' remember if it was 7.50 or 15 dollars.
Things, including restaurants and cabrides are pretty cheap in Peru, but
you can't buy a sim there now. Must have an esim or roaming and when I
bought roaming, it wouldn't work. The reason they gave is that my phone
hasn't got Band 71. It doesn't, but they use that band in the USA and
not Peru, so why should it matter if I'm in Peru. Was she just blowing
me off?

https://www.coolbox.pe/computo/accesorios-de-computo/mouse

The $7.81 wireless mouse, https://www.coolbox.pe/mouse-inalambrico-teraware-1600dpi-4w019/p
The $3.10 corded mouse, https://www.coolbox.pe/mouse-alambrico-teraware-mo-048-1000dpi-mo-048/p

See footnote for tedious story about how bad Capital One bank can be for travelers: ****

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.

Mouse button switches are usually miniature alcoswitch types with
pretty good immunity to 'bounce'.

You should check your computer mouse reader software settings - they
can be adjusted to ignore clicks that repeat too quickly.

In Windows; Control panel - mouse - double-click speed (~ sliding >adjustment)

After my mouse didnt work and I bought a new one, then the keyboard
didn't work, and I realized it's the hub that is no good, So, I have two
other USB hubs around here, and I have to find one before I can plug in
both mice. I've already looked for them, so this will take a few days.
I'll get back to you.

If it is the swiches and only the left one gives trouble, open
the mouse up and desolder/swap the two switches. (There is no
right mouse button double-click).

So, you're saying that if the switch is bad, it won't matter when it's
on the right side.

I found a screw under the batteries, to take the mouse apart, and the
switches are the same, just rotated 90^. Part of the label is in
Chinese but it seems to say BOMJS, but searching for BOMJS microswitch
finds nothing, except BONUS and BOSCH. It might say BONUS but Bonus is
just a distributor.


Anyhow those sound like good ideas, and the second one will impress you
people if it works.

RL

****
Go to PUNCH LINE if in a hurry.

I'll tell you someeting else. Capital One advertised heavily for years
that they change no foreign transaction fees. But when I had a problem
in 2019, the only way into the app or the webpage was for them to send a
code to my USA phone, my cell phone with my USA number. But I had
removed that sim and put in a local sim. So I couldn't reach them.
Don't they know that some people change sims. My other bank has 5 ways
to get a code, inclding email. They told me when I got home that the
app would have worked if I'd used it before I left, but they didn't tell
me that before I left.

Switch to 2026 and like several banks, they no longer ask you to tell
them if you're going out of the country. The night I got there I
charged a taxi, and 4 days later I get an alert from Capita One, Dark
Web activity detected. It looks like spam to me so I go via the banks
webpage and follow it along to Creditwise where it says my email
password has been seen on the darkweb. When? May of 2024, and now they
are writing me!! I think maybe they or someone wrote me in 2025 too.

Tben 2 hours later, I get an email from them saying there is a document
waiting for me. I have to log in to their site and then I have to call
an 800 number, and she sends me a link and with the phone I have to take
a picture of my driver's license. 4 times it says there was a problem
on OUR end, on the 5th try it works, but then it wants the back of the
driver's license and the first try fails and now they want me to go back
to the beginning again, the front of the drivers license. So I give up.
Sure enough, my card is blocked, the woman won't let me see my webpage
so I can tell if it's serious or not and I use another card for the
remaining 6 days.
When I get back to the US, again they want me to take pictures of the drivers license with the phone, and I say, Don't you have a backup plan?
She says, "Can I call you on this phone number?" and I say, Yes, of
course, and she calls me and I answer, and she says I'm verified. From
one extreme to the other.

PUNCH LINE:
So it turns out there was no problem except that I was makinh a
charge in Peru, after they no longer want to know if I'm leaving the
country. She said they continue to do security checks, so they knew the
charge was in Peru and that made it suspicious. So I could't use the
card for the 10 days I was there, and I'll never count on it again.

Plus I have to calculate the exthange rate from the credit card and
debit card I did use, but I think it was about the same. I'll get back
to you on that.
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On 2026-04-28 02:03, micky wrote:

...

PUNCH LINE:
So it turns out there was no problem except that I was makinh a
charge in Peru, after they no longer want to know if I'm leaving the
country. She said they continue to do security checks, so they knew the charge was in Peru and that made it suspicious. So I could't use the
card for the 10 days I was there, and I'll never count on it again.

USAians never travel abroad, they know and encourage that :-D :-P
--
Cheers, Carlos.
ESEfc-Efc+, EUEfc-Efc|;
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In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:27:52 -0400, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one
goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that.
Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.

Mouse button switches are usually miniature alcoswitch types with
pretty good immunity to 'bounce'.

You should check your computer mouse reader software settings - they
can be adjusted to ignore clicks that repeat too quickly.

I tried that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps because much of the
problem was not doing double-clicks. Instead it was doing what were seen
as double single-clicks. Opening an email and then immediately clicking
on whatever was in the email. The setting doesn't cover that.

It didn't seem to do this im Peru. Maybe it's the water.

In Windows; Control panel - mouse - double-click speed (~ sliding >adjustment)

If it is the swiches and only the left one gives trouble, open
the mouse up and desolder/swap the two switches. (There is no
right mouse button double-click).

A long term project.

The short term project was buying another mouse, Technet, for $10. Seems
to work fine.

RL

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On Mon, 11 May 2026 20:45:57 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:27:52 -0400, legg ><legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
<robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the
wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one >>>> goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that. >>>> Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.

Mouse button switches are usually miniature alcoswitch types with
pretty good immunity to 'bounce'.

You should check your computer mouse reader software settings - they
can be adjusted to ignore clicks that repeat too quickly.

I tried that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps because much of the
problem was not doing double-clicks. Instead it was doing what were seen
as double single-clicks. Opening an email and then immediately clicking
on whatever was in the email. The setting doesn't cover that.

It didn't seem to do this im Peru. Maybe it's the water.

In Windows; Control panel - mouse - double-click speed (~ sliding >>adjustment)

If it is the swiches and only the left one gives trouble, open
the mouse up and desolder/swap the two switches. (There is no
right mouse button double-click).

A long term project.

The short term project was buying another mouse, Technet, for $10. Seems
to work fine.

Save the next owner some grief by marking the bad mouse with
the appropriate lettering. NFG.

RL
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In sci.electronics.repair, on Tue, 12 May 2026 09:35:40 -0400, legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2026 20:45:57 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:

In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:27:52 -0400, legg >><legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:29:13 +0200, "Carlos E.R." >>><robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-04-26 13:52, micky wrote:

So everything is good, EXCEPT when I get back to the States, now the >>>>> wireless mouse has a hair trigger. I press the button once and two
things happen. I'm looking at photos, I click on next and the next one >>>>> goes by so fast I don't even see it, and it's on to the one after that. >>>>> Similar problem with other software too.

Any ideas on how to cure a hair trigger on a new mouse?

Depends on how it is constructed, but usually nothing you can do.

Maybe dust mites inside? But it is too young to have them.

Mouse button switches are usually miniature alcoswitch types with
pretty good immunity to 'bounce'.

You should check your computer mouse reader software settings - they
can be adjusted to ignore clicks that repeat too quickly.

I tried that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps because much of the >>problem was not doing double-clicks. Instead it was doing what were seen
as double single-clicks. Opening an email and then immediately clicking
on whatever was in the email. The setting doesn't cover that.

It didn't seem to do this im Peru. Maybe it's the water.

In Windows; Control panel - mouse - double-click speed (~ sliding >>>adjustment)

If it is the swiches and only the left one gives trouble, open
the mouse up and desolder/swap the two switches. (There is no
right mouse button double-click).

A long term project.

The short term project was buying another mouse, Technet, for $10. Seems
to work fine.

Save the next owner some grief by marking the bad mouse with
the appropriate lettering. NFG.

OKay.

RL

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