Rechargeable Batteries for LA1 keyboard and mouse

[howard23411]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good brand of charger and batteries for the LA1 wireless keyboard and mouse? The mouse gets through duracells pretty quickly. The 4 in the keyboard last quite a while but I don't want to be caught out and am looking to be able to keep 6 AAs charged in reserve at any one time.

Ta.
Howard

[Blencogo]

Hi Howard and welcome to Club Vaio.

I still have the original Alkaline batteries in my keyboard and they have lasted over a year. I don't think it will be worth keeping rechargeables in a state of readiness for the keyboard.

However, the mouse is a real gas-guzzler and I use rechargeables to avoid bankruptcy.

I just use an old set of Jessops AA2300 and a Uniross Sprint which takes about an hour to charge 2300mAh batteries. These work in the mouse for 2/3 weeks.

[howard23411]

Hi Blencogo

Thank you for that. Yes, the batteries in the keyboard are still good but I'm on the third set of batts in the mouse in less than a month. Thanks for your advice - 2 weeks is the max I've had from Duracells so far so I'll take your advice.

[floody]

You could at the last resort remove the batteries from the mouse when not in use. We had this problem at work - 2 AA batteries drained in 10 days

[howard23411]

Cheers, floody. I'm getting by with rechargeables at the moment - they're lasting about two weeks but at least I have ready replacements!
H

[kee-lo_]

Sony do rechargable batteries, so I guess they'd be suitable.