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I'm wondering if all mice use the same switch technology or if different mice use different ones.
Im talking about left and right clicks on the mouse and the mechanic that activates and registers the keyclick.
I've been through 3 razer deathadders already, and I found that after about 1 year, the mouse starts doubeclicking when I try to singleclick with my mouse.
I find this incredibly annoying, and I didn't have this problem with some of the older mice I had. It's making me wonder if these gaming companies make mice that have low durability on purpose just so that we'll buy more of them.
What would be the mouse equivalent of a keyboard with mechanical keyswitches?
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=p Mice use basically the same thing you'll find in arcade sticks little microswitches afaik cherry used to make of them some ppl refereed to them as cherry switches usually describing the microswitches for the stick part of the arcade sticks, although in american and european you could find them being used for buttons as well, although most buttons are now just a pushbutton variant
It's likely razers fault for w.e microswitch they are using failure rate comes too quickly, the double clicking or unable to hold a click is a sign of failure which depending on how much you click it, you have to understand you only type a letter at most like every 5th keyboard press but you click a mouse button a shit ton more.
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All mice are mechanical. Generally speaking (from the mice I've opened), they use a convex copper disk that indents inwards and closes a circuit to register a mouse click. Some may use a different style but I'm not sure of any other type of switch that has the same short travel distance and properties.
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Ball mice are more mechanical than optical mice 
In seriousness, like the above two posters said, all mice are mechanical on some level (except for stuff like the Apple mighty mouse or whatever). The difference is in the build quality. Logitechs generally outlast Razers but some Razers (the DeathAdder and Abyssus in particular) use better sensors than any Logi
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From what i can bring up razer uses these microswitches,
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/i4NQF.jpg)
if you're up to the task you can get them for less then a buck a switch or even replace them with a different one. with similar soldering points and positing which is just about any Omron D2Fxxxxx would do the job
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If your looking for a replacement for ur deathadded id recommend this mouse, sure its old but ive used it for 2 years so far i think or 1 and a half and never had any problems. I got mine relatively cheap for around 50$ on bestbuy. Mine is actually black and blue i dont think they have many of those anymore? (Not sure) but they have silver and black still i think.
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On September 10 2011 06:05 NemesysTV wrote:If your looking for a replacement for ur deathadded id recommend this mouse, sure its old but ive used it for 2 years so far i think or 1 and a half and never had any problems. I got mine relatively cheap for around 50$ on bestbuy. Mine is actually black and blue i dont think they have many of those anymore? (Not sure) but they have silver and black still i think.
My G7 started double clicking around 1.5 years on the right click. Could be a similar problem to what the OP was talking about. Dunno if the G5 does it too.
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youll chew through a mouse faster than a keyboard thats just how it is. but my deathadder died very fast too. my mx518 lasted twice as long. but i prefer the shape and sensor of the deathadder
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On September 10 2011 06:08 Sixotanaka wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2011 06:05 NemesysTV wrote:If your looking for a replacement for ur deathadded id recommend this mouse, sure its old but ive used it for 2 years so far i think or 1 and a half and never had any problems. I got mine relatively cheap for around 50$ on bestbuy. Mine is actually black and blue i dont think they have many of those anymore? (Not sure) but they have silver and black still i think. My G7 started double clicking around 1.5 years on the right click. Could be a similar problem to what the OP was talking about. Dunno if the G5 does it too.
i think the G7 that wireless mouse used a different microswitch as the G5, you can find posts about G7 users complaining how quickly the issue pooped up along with some other logitech mice usually their wireless, but seeing how cheap it is to buy a replacement switch i rather just buy replacement feet for the mice, open it up swap out the microswitches and slap new feet on the bottom then buy a new mouse for 40+ bucks.
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