Posted: 10/4/2011 1:35:09 PM EDT
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I just noticed the red light on the bottom of my mouse no longer works but the mouse still works.
What's the deal? Time to replace it? |
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an optical mouse uses and optical sensor for tracking, with the mouse covered by the upper half of the body of the mouse and your hand there very little light that makes it through.
the LED provides a more precise tracking by making the surface bright and easy to track. you hear it referred to as DPI. high end gaming mice are usually around 2000dpi or so. without an led it drops the dpi pretty low. chances are you wont notice a difference unless your gaming or doing some precision work with your mice. |
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Quoted: I'm still rocking one of these bad boys.  I love the Logitech trackballs. |
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an optical mouse uses and optical sensor for tracking, with the mouse covered by the upper half of the body of the mouse and your hand there very little light that makes it through. the LED provides a more precise tracking by making the surface bright and easy to track. you hear it referred to as DPI. high end gaming mice are usually around 2000dpi or so. without an led it drops the dpi pretty low. chances are you wont notice a difference unless your gaming or doing some precision work with your mice. I never knew that. Thanks for posting. That is interesting. |
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I'm still rocking one of these bad boys.
I love the Logitech trackballs. Mine is slightly different and LOVE IT! I had dislocated my wrist and was the ONLY thing I could use without pain. |
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You guys are fucking funny. If it (obviously) doesn't need the light to work, why did it have the light to begin with? its so bill gates can communicate with you.. and it works so much better if you swap it out with a blue LED in place of the red.. teh red allows the flying monkies to hear you talking.. the blue is masked for them.. I know it sounds wierd but it works.. |
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an optical mouse uses and optical sensor for tracking, with the mouse covered by the upper half of the body of the mouse and your hand there very little light that makes it through. the LED provides a more precise tracking by making the surface bright and easy to track. you hear it referred to as DPI. high end gaming mice are usually around 2000dpi or so. without an led it drops the dpi pretty low. chances are you wont notice a difference unless your gaming or doing some precision work with your mice. Thank you. |
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Serious question: are you sure it was ever lit? Are you sure that there wasn't an "accent light" on the side and the mouse was always guided by an infrared laser? Yes, there used to be a beam of light coming out of the hole in the bottom, i have another computer with a similar mouse I just double checked on. |
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an optical mouse uses and optical sensor for tracking, with the mouse covered by the upper half of the body of the mouse and your hand there very little light that makes it through. the LED provides a more precise tracking by making the surface bright and easy to track. you hear it referred to as DPI. high end gaming mice are usually around 2000dpi or so. without an led it drops the dpi pretty low. chances are you wont notice a difference unless your gaming or doing some precision work with your mice. Thank you. Weak. 
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