Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Fixing a Mouse Double Click Problems

By leorick  |  12/23/2008 09:00:00 PM 8 comments

Have you ever experience a bad optical mouse? It went double click action whenever you did a single click action? At first, I try to Google for answer but none of them help. I’ve tried every combination of settings but the problem doesn’t go away. I really suspected there must be something wrong with the circuit. After I made a conclusion that it is a mechanical related issue (maybe the switch it self), I replace the switch from an old mouse available.

Unfortunately the problem is still there. This is dangerous since you might drag a folder by accident and move it into another folder. This problem always happening to a first time touch-pad user with tapping function turned on.

So next I’m thinking it maybe related to a noise in the circuit. So without any calculation, I try to salvage a capacitor that l can find from an old circuit board and solder it parallel to the switch.

:-) Now it become “click and hold” for about 10 seconds. The capacitor value that I used to smooth the noise from the circuit is too big causing it to simulate “click and hold”. After measuring the capacitance it shows about 2µF. Too big maybe.

Next I try to find a capacitor with quite smaller capacitance value (~2nF). Maybe this will do. So I just replace it.

Walla! At last like a brand new mouse looks and feel. Good luck.

8 comments :

Andani said...

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Andani
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waninan said...

Nice article! I have this problem one at home. Will try it. Thanks. Err..any post regarding a loosen power port? :p

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip!

BR

Anonymous said...

Walla? It's spelled voilà!

Otherwise good tip.

leorick said...

Gee Thanks! I'll use voilà next time :-)

never in my life seen a mouse disarmed, I read the blog and I decided to repair my house, I followed the steps and guess what? GREAT

Missa said...

Very, VERY usable tip. Thanks. I tried with several capacitors and it shows difference. Can't read values, those are too small. And I do not have multimeter to measure them, so poking in the dark for now...

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