How To Repair Mouse Cable

Recently a coworker of mine purchased a Logitech M500 corded mouse on Amazon. Its relatively inexpensive at $24.99 and perfect for office utilize. As you can see from the image below, its a squeamish size mouse with a few extra buttons. I believe Logitech has been selling them for years.

Now I become why amazon has frustration free packing!

The mouse came in retail packing and upon cutting open the sealed packing he accidentally cut the USB connection off the mouse. He immediately tossed the mouse in the trash and proceeded to social club a second. I saw this and said, hey don't toss the mouse, let me attempt a repair.

Easy Mouse Repair

I considered soldering the wire dorsum together, simply that would prove to exist messy and there would be a large bulge close to the base of the mouse. My 2d idea was but to supercede the unabridged USB cable from an older mouse that was sitting in my parts bin.

Step 1 – Open the mouse

The Logitech M500 has the screws hiding nether the 4 pads on the bottom of the mouse. Remove the 4 pads carefully and set aside. And so remove the 4 black screws to gain access to the mouse.

Advisedly pry the superlative of the mouse away from the base to revile the internal components .

STEP 2 – REMOVE THE CONNECTOR

To the left of the scroll wheel you will encounter the white USB connector attached to the main lath of the mouse. Remove the connector.

It is important to annotation the orientation and color of the wires on the connector!

This M500 mouse has a pin out of:
Light-green – Data
White – Data
Red – +Five
Blackness – -5
Blackness – Footing

STEP 3 -Find a suitable donor mouse

I found a really onetime Microsoft mouse in my parts bin and decided to utilize it every bit a donor for the Logitech.

Same deal hither, remove the screws on the donor mouse. Pry open the case then remove the USB cablevision from the connector.

Once again it is important to note the guild of the pins in the cable.

STEP 4 – Adjust the cable pin out as needed

In the case of this Microsoft mouse the GREEN & RED pin were REVERSED. In society for our repair to be a success we would have to bandy the pins! This could be done past cut and solder or past pulling the pins from the connector and re-inserting them.

If y'all look at the close upwardly image (I had already removed the two wires i needed to bandy. However the pins are held in by a small metal fin that bumps up against the plastic connector. Yous tin can see it in the image to the left. Use a pocket-size tool or paper prune to button down on the metal tab (or pull up on the plastic) and gently pull the wire out .

The wires will look similar this one time they are out of the connector.

Only reinsert into the connector in the proper orientation and re-attach to the mouse.

Pace 5 – Reassemble and y'all're washed!

Place the connector back on the board, route the cable through the guides on the mouse and place the embrace on tiptop. Tighten the 4 screws, stick the 4 pads over the spiral holes and yous're ready to test.

Yous should be proficient to go with a working mouse!

This may seem kind of trivial, why repair a $25 mouse? I have a few reasons for my motivation to do this. i. I relish fixing things, two. we throw away so much stuff, even saving one mouse from the trash is worth it (specially since it was new out of the box) 3. because i can!

I hope this article motivates you to repair your own electronics and see what you tin can save from the trash. However, if you lot're in need of a new mouse, Logitech has a ton to choose from and Amazon stocks most of them