Replaceable battery while travelling for wireless split keyboards?

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Replaceable battery while travelling for wireless split keyboards? - Lemmy.world

Hi folks. I’m trying to find a good way to mount the batteries for a wireless split keyboard such that battery replacements can be done easily while travelling internationally. As someone who’s now stuck with a dying LiPo battery directly soldered to my nice!nano while travelling, I’m struggling to find battery replacement options that are NOT online orders. Most local shops don’t have the 3.7V thin-ish LiPos that I often see in wireless splits, and the language barrier certainly makes finding things more difficult. So, with this in mind, I’m thinking of making a dedicated battery slot for each half that could fit a rechargeable AA or AAA-sized LiPo, which can be easily bought from shops at the airport or shopping mall. However, I’m unsure if any additional circuit or component is required for those AA/AAA-sized LiPos to work with a split keyboard (in terms of voltage). Has anyone tried to use such batteries for your split keyboards, or have seen a project that uses them? Also, if not AA/AAA-sized LiPos, what battery types would you suggest for this scenario? (Photo from: https://www.dnkpower.com/lithium-polymer-battery-guide/ [https://www.dnkpower.com/lithium-polymer-battery-guide/])

Not sure I 100% understand what you’re looking for, but for a while I used a pair of 16340 batteries with shields /charging modules. One of my installed lipo batteries had failed and at the time I didn’t know what I was doing with soldering. I attached the 16340 shields to the underside of my Corne and used them to tent the halves with ultra short USB-C cables to power my nanos. Sounds a bit hacky, and it wasn’t a pretty or permanent solution, but it actually didn’t look too shabby, and it was functional.
Ooh that was an interesting approach. Glad you got it to work. In my case, I just replaced the failed battery with a new one, then patched everything together with some rough soldering work and electrical tape.

:) At the time, I didn’t even own a soldering iron, and I wouldn’t have known what to do with it if I did!

Repairing that battery myself was later down the line was the first bit of soldering I ever did, which allowed me to then go on and build my first board.

If I’m reading you right, glad to hear you’re all sorted.

Nice job! Yeah, all is sorted out… for now xD There’s a chance something might come loose but at least I can access my tools back home soon-ish! Meanwhile, thinking how best to prevent this issue for my next build…