Logitech G Powerplay Wireless Charging System for G703, G903 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mice, Cloth or Hard Gaming Mouse Pad

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I ordered this months ago, when the 903 was released. I was becoming more and more frustrated by the time it took to deliver on the product, but they did eventually deliver. So here goes after a weekend of using this coupled with a 903. have this setup, and coupled with a G910 Keyboard. The profiles are set up accordingly and I have more than 2 dozen games to try this out on. My first recommendation is do not allow the game to dictate the color profile. Really. There is a bug in firmware/software where games that "Flash" the keyboard lights during certain events cause the mouse(G903) stutter. This can cause you to lose the match or even worse, have to restart the computer. This is rectified by unplugging and plugging the mousepad back in. Just avoid the game controlled lighting effects and customize your own. As for the actual mouse pad. It does come with a soft and hard pad. These attach to the charging pad itself. They simply lift off, and can be replaced. The soft pad is the same quality and texture of 90% of gaming mouse pads. It feels no different, has no drag, and is really nice to use. Typical high quality soft gaming pad. The hard pad is the same. Its smooth, and is the quality you expect. The actual wireless charging system is really nice. Playing many different games, it was able to (extremely slowly) charge the mouse to 100%. I purposefully left the mouse at 20% when I hooked up this system. I then plugged it directly into a port (so the pad would shut down when the computer was turned off). Surely enough, it extremely slowly charged the mouse. It never went negative (lost battery). There is no dragging due to the wireless charging. I did use the mouse with the weight until the Powerplay System arrived just to get used to it. All in all, this is a solution that allows you to remove the wires for gaming, without giving up any performance. At 1000hz it out paces some wired mice. With a wireless charging pad the battery is a non issue. The pad itself is the same quality you get from just about any good gaming mouse pad. You can put any mouse pad you want (I tried it with two others including the Steel Series with no issues, they just happen to be smaller). I would highly recommend this setup, and couldnt be happier with it. The mouse itself should be separate review if gone in to great detail.

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To start, I will say that I have a good amount of Logitech products, from cheap keyboards and mouses I have bought for my employees, to numerous Harmony remotes I have purchased for myself and setup for relatives as gifts and customers, to the G13 and G930 that I still use to this day. I recently built a new PC to get back into gaming. I have always loved logitechs gaming hardware, and my last mouse was a G9x, so I looked for a suitable replacement. Ended up finding the G903, bought it and loved it. Saw the powerplay pad and thought it looked like an awesome idea, and ordered one even tho the price was insane IMO. It arrived and at first I was very happy, until I started to actually play games. I immediately noticed that my mouse felt like it was dragging in certain spots on the hard surface mousepad cover. Upon closer examination, there were already 2 different scuffs/uneven spots on the mousepad surface the day I unboxed it. The soft cover is flawless, but Ive always preferred hard surface pads. So, not wanting to return the entire thing (and be without a good mousepad for gaming), I decided to register my product and open a warranty claim with Logitech to see if they could just ship me a replacement hard surface cover. I have tried ALL WEEK to file a warranty claim/request, and every time I hit "Send Email" at the final step on Logitechs support website, I am greeted with an error message "Oops, we cant find requested page" or something along those lines. I saw other reviewers complaining about the durability of the mousepad surface, and other complaining about Logitechs support (or lack thereof) but I thought they were just exceptions, and that Id have better luck. WRONG! So, now it looks like I will be returning not only my Powerplay mousepad, but also my G903. No sense paying over $200 for a mouse/pad combo that I dont even enjoy using and wont be receiving warranty support for. I will try a few more times to submits warranty claim and give Logi a chance to make things right, and will update this review if they do. **UPDATE** Since my original review, Logitech has sent a replacement that is flawless, so I am adjusting my review as promised. Just an FYI: When opening a warranty claim on Logitechs website and uploading an image, make sure your image isnt too big. It doesnt specify a size limitation, but I think it is somewhere around 3-5MB apparently.

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For starters the mousepad is huge, way bigger than most mousepads which wouldnt be a problem but it only comes in one size and it is filled with circuitry so if you bend it then it will break. For people with limited space this simply isnt an option. And evidently Logitech doesnt use their own products because they thought it would be cool if it had a color changing light on it that never turns off in addition to a blinding white always on led. Maybe you can turn this off in the logitech software but I have the usb cable plugged directly into an outlet so I cant use the logitech hub to change any settings on my mouse mat. Believe it or not sometimes people use wireless technology so they can be away from their computers while they use their peripherals. So my options are to put some black tape over the lights (super ghetto) or just plug the charging cable directly into my wireless mouse (which sorta defeats the purpose) and not even use this $100 charging pad.

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I like this device a lot. I’ve got a Logitech G 703, and it really shines whom combined with the Powerplay wireless charging pad. While I’ve not yet seen my mouse charged to 100%, I rarely see it get below 85%. I’ve used only the hard mat so far. While my mouse performs well on this surface, and I prefer it over the soft surface, it scoots around on the charging surface I’ve actually had the hard pad nearly slide off the charging base and onto the floor during an intense match, which wound up costing me the match. Other than that one flaw, I really enjoy this device, and think you will too, especially gamers.

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This has to be one of the best gaming products Ive ever purchased. I have a full Razer setup but my Mamba decided to crap out on me after only a year. It also had some issues throughout so I decided to switch it up. Did my research and landed on the Logitech G703 and I couldnt be happier. Feels and tracks better than the mamba. Ive always been a fan of wireless gaming mice but my only issue was forgetting to charge it. As soon as I heard this mat was a thing I jumped on it like a kid in a trampoline park. I couldnt be happier. Its been about 8 months since I got it and it has given me 0 issues. I just put my hand on my mouse and go. I recommend this to everyone and you have the ability to switch between cloth mat and hard mat whereas with Razer Firefly I was stuck with a hard mat and I hated the sound my mouse made when it slid across. If you have a G7/903 mouse you NEED to get this, it is worth every penny and I never have to have my mouse die mid game again. I still have my Razer Kraken and Blackwidow X keyboards but I will be on the lookout for a similar feeling keyboard from Logitech and a headset. Im a G girl now.

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This literally enables the best of both worlds. You get to use a wireless mouse, and you never have to think about charging it. NOT TO MENTION that you get choices of both materials, hard and fabric. IN ADDITION to the fact that the receiver is literally right next to the mouse (no interference). IN ADDITION to the fact that the mouse can charge ANYWHERE on the mat (unlike Corsair, etc. which only have a little area that has Qi charging). While it does kind of suck you cant put your phone on this mat and hav it charge, Id much rather be able to have my mouse charging as I use it and never have to worry about it. Its especially reassuring knowing that the Logitech software (which is great) keeps the mouse only charged ~80% to preserve the battery life over the long term. Stop reading, just buy it.

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Stopped charging my G903 after about 4 months. Logitech customer support is a total joke. Set up a warranty ticket, got no response for over a week then they just closed it with an automated message. Ticket number is 07337325 if anyone at Logitech cares about their customers.

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I use this mouse pad with the G502 Logitech wireless mouse. Ive been using the wired version of the G502 for years and always loved it, so I figured the wireless and wireless charging would be great. The hardware its self is amazing. Logitech is hardware company. Logitech IS NOT a software company and theyve seriously dropped the ball with the software for this product line, so much so that Im considering not using Logitech products in the future at all. If youre used Logitech Gaming products in the past couple of years youve probably used the Logitech Gaming Software. It was far from being great, but it did function. With the Lightspeed products, the Logitech Gaming software no longer works. You have to download and use a new application called GHub. This software is terrible and single handily ruins the products that require it. Its possible to get the software to run and work with the hardware...UNTIL you need to unplug any of the hardware from the computer (mouse or mouse pad). Once youve unplugged it, it can be impossible to get the GHub software to detect ANY hardware without restarting your entire computer. Just shutting down the software and re-loading it doesnt help and neither does unplugging and re-plugging the devices back into different USB ports. You MUST restart your entire computer and re-run the software to get it to detect the mouse and (or) mouse pad again. I wish it was just me or my computer/setup, but a quick Google search will show you lots of others with the exact same issue....all based on the GHub software. Logitech Support always says the same thing...re-install the software and try again. But re-installing requires a restart, which isnt any better than just having to restart you computer anyway. Im not a gamer, I use the mouse and mouse pad for design work and work mainly on a Mac. I can tell you the GHub software is absolutely terrible for Mac. On top of that, I let a friend borrow and use both the mouse pad and mouse for gaming and he had the same issues on a modern windows gaming system. So with these products you end up with what would be amazing hardware that is TOTALLY RUINED by god awful software that wasnt even needed in the first place. The now obsolete Logitech Gaming software actually had MORE features and ran 100% better than this new GHUB pile of crap. If you want a wireless Logitech mouse just get a normal wireless mouse and stay away from the Lightspeed/PowerPlay stuff until they either fix the software or just trash altogether and go back to the previous software that worked. Im going to be getting rid of the mouse and mouse pad and going back to the wired G502 mouse for now. Not only is it less than half the price, it works so much better because it doesnt require the GHub software to function. And I"ll be looking for a replacement for Logitech in general in the future. ******** EDIT Just wanted to leave an update after finding out the GHub software is actually worse than I thought. In my review I said the software looses the connection to the Mouse/Mouse pad after unplugging either of the devices. Thats true, but Ive since found that the GHub software also looses connection when your computer goes to sleep or is locked. This means when you go to use your computer again it has to wait to try to detect the mouse and mouse pad all over again, which can take anywhere from 20 seconds to never, requiring a restart to get it to work again. So yeah, the software is terrible and even worse than I initially thought.

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TL;DR: $100 and worth it. Charges slowly, but will keep your mouse alive without plugging it in. Shame that only two mice work for it so far. When I first stumbled on this mouse pad, I scoffed and wrote it off as a gimmick. Mind you, Ive spent this kind of money before on metal mouse pads from razer. I bought this for my wife just recently to "test" it, because she just got her first gaming computer and needed a mouse/mouse pad. As an avid PC gamer, I cant sing the praises of wireless mice enough, but the worst thing about them, is that they eventually die. Naturally, youd want a rechargeable mouse so you dont have to worry about batteries, however, I always seem to forget to charge my current mouse because the charge lasts long enough that I dont think about it (roughly 3 - 5 days). Whenever my mouse does die, I get annoyed because I feel stupid for not charging it and then I have to deal with the cord. This mouse pad solves every problem with wireless mice. It continuously charges the mouse, so long as its on the mouse pad(duh) even while in use. There is no lag or latency issues because the mouse communicates directly to the mouse pad. Youll never need to plug your mouse in again. The pad itself is excellent. It comes with two types of surfaces, a hard and soft one. You can swap them out and I havent noticed a difference in charge times or connectivity with either. The pad is also huge, much bigger than I thought it would be. The charging isnt fast by any means, but its fast enough to keep your mouse from dying, even while gaming. The only negative I can see is that youll have to spend $100 on the pad and then $100 on the mouse itself, but I dont take stars off for price. Its a premium product. I picked up the g903 with the pad and couldnt be happier with it. I wish I wouldve bought one for myself, but the wife has it, and that makes me sad.

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If youre thinking about getting a mousepad that can charge your mouse while you use it, this works great. Pros: - Sufficiently charges the mouse while in use. This is pretty cool. - Acts as a wireless receiver for the mouse as well. Cons: - Some sort of interference causing strange static noises and pops when I use my headphones. It may be because its a noise cancelling headphone (sony WH1000XM2), but whenever the mousepad is charging the mouse, it starts picking up static noise and pops, which get louder and more intense if I move closer to the mousepad. At first I thought it was some sort of interference on the usb port and the audio out jack. But I unplugged the mousepad from the computer and plugged it into a completely separate usb hub that is plugged into a different wall outlet, and the static/popping still happens. All of it stops immediately if I unplug the mousepad in either scenario. -Bright LEDs that cannot be disabled. There are two lights on this mousepad, the RGB Logitech logo, and another white LED that indicates if the mouse is charging. The RGB logo can be disabled if you install logitechs gaming software and have it running (exiting the app will revert it back to on), but the charging light cannot be disabled. Both lights are pretty bright and distracting/unappealing to me. - This last complaint Im less sure of, but I definitely feel like my hand/wrist gets warmer and sweater when I use this mousepad vs the one I used to. Maybe its the material or perhaps the inductive coil itself is generating a bit of warmth. Not a deal breaker, but it is another thing I disliked about it. I could deal with the LEDs (good ol tape) and the extra warmth, but the static noise on my favorite pair of headphones was a deal breaker to me.

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