Re: Discharging a wireless USB keyboard for long-term storage
Paul <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:01:20 -0400
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On Sat, 6/27/2026 12:21 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
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> What's the fastest way to discharge the internal rechargeable battery in a wireless USB keyboard?
>
> The white keyboard in question has a type-C USB port for connection to a PC, and a USB dongle
> of course. It also has a switch to select wired (mis-lablled as "OFF"?) and wirelss mode (mis-labelled as "ON"?).
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> BTW, the keyboard in question has LEDs under all keycaps. You can choose light shows using hot keys.
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The 3.7V single cell battery in your keyboard, loses charge with time, as others have
pointed out, and eventually it will drop to zero.
Don't worry about it.
If it bothers you, take it to an electronics recycler, they know what to do.
Paul