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Battery in backwards. What can I expect?

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Yup, while in a theater I changed batteries in the dark. I thought that I was paying attention, but, when I got thome I found the battery in backwards on my Left Opn1.

what can I expect to happen?

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I put my battery in the wrong way round last year and it got stuck. I had to get some tweezers to pull it out. Luckily I didn’t damage the .

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I’m Sorry. My concern is did I damage them in some way? Should I be listening for any thing odd like static, pops, volume changes?

I had a friend who messed his up and started getting very weak sounds of words spoken in the ear.

So, I was just wondering if the Opn1 sensed the error and just shunt it out until i fixed it, or could I have damaged something.

I would say if anything it would have killed the hearing aid when you tried to power it up. I would be careful not to do it again. But if it is working okay now it should be good.

The battery is only 1.4V. That’s a very low voltage, hardly enough to cause any damage to solid state electronic circuits. Yeah, it won’t work. But it shouldn’t burn anything out.

The biggest danger would be physically damaging the casing from forcing it closed with the battery the wrong way.

Any electrical damage should be fairly obviously straight away. It would either work or it won’t. The exception there is damage due to liquids which can take a while to show up.

Sounds like you got away with it.

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