{"id":2130,"date":"2026-03-12T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:52:11","slug":"plugable-bt-key3-battery-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Plugable BT-KEY3 Battery Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ella&#8217;s above-referenced portable and foldable keyboard stopped charging around near its third birthday. Since its manufacturer warranty had elapsed and it was broken and the manufacturer doesn&#8217;t sell or recommend any replacement parts, I found it free game to open up and inspect. While inside, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Guide\/Plugable+BT-KEY3+Battery+Replacement\/210427\">started a guide for others<\/a>. Please help improve the guide, I didn&#8217;t take enough pictures and didn&#8217;t write enough describing what I did.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about gaining access to the inside of the keyboard is that I found a location to repurpose one of the hundred or so vape batteries I&#8217;ve accumulated over the last couple years. The vape battery I put in doesn&#8217;t use all the space that it could use, but that&#8217;s ok. It&#8217;s sort of a proof-of-concept and if it seems to work I&#8217;ll find a better matching battery later. Optimally I&#8217;ll find a 403525 (that&#8217;s 4.0 mm x 35 mm x 25 mm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ella&#8217;s above-referenced portable and foldable keyboard stopped charging around near its third birthday. Since its manufacturer warranty had elapsed and it was broken and the manufacturer doesn&#8217;t sell or recommend any replacement parts, I found it free game to open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}