It will work. It doesn’t charge wirelessly. The charger connects to a USB port on your PC and the controller must be connected to charge. You can continue playing while it’s charging/connected. Once charged, you can obviously disconnect and play wirelessly.
If wireless at all times is a must, I suggest buying a battery/charger kit such as this one and swapping batteries as and when they discharge.
EDIT: FYI, am not using the kit myself. Just know from the research I did in my futile hunt for a PC wireless receiver for the XBox 360 controller. :frusty:
Wouldn’t regular batteries run out of juice pretty quickly? Also, he’d have to keep buying fresh ones every so often. Although of course, rechargeable AA batteries are also an option.
EDIT: The rechargeable AAs would probably be cheaper than the original battery/charger kit too.
Well these batteries are rated the same as the battery/charger kit in your original post (2100 mAh) so both would last for about the same time. From what I understand the mAh thing basically means that if the device uses 1 mA per hour, the batteries will last for 2100 hours. So all you have to do now is find out how much juice the controller needs.
However, the Xbox site mentions the controller runs about 30 hours on two alkaline batteries. So if we assume that the Kodak batteries are the average alkaline battery, then the controller will run for 30 hrs on them… per M$.
Also, the NiMH battery pack comes in higher ratings as well, such as 3600 and 4000 mAh. These will obviously last longer than the average.
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