Hearing aid dryer needed?

I understand how it is tricky to use this forum. If you don’t mind me asking what screen reading / brail system are you using? I am in the market for one. I tend to favor Jaws.

This is a little off task but Jaws is good I like it a lot.

Your welcome. Hope it helps like it did for me.

The Dry-Cap UV-2 dryer for rechargeable hearing aids have a 2-hour cycle–2 min for UV-C, 116 min for dry, and 2 min for UV-C. I haven’t bought or tried this dryer but [hearingaiduser2020] pointed it out to me and it’s just what I wanted and need for my Starkey rechargeable custom hearing aids. Since the HA’s can charge at the same time, the drying cycle time doesn’t matter.

I just started a VA trial on my Starkey HA’s so I’ll wait a bit before buying the dryer. By the way, it’s dimensions are 4.7"L x 4.7"W x 4.7"H (or 120mm instead of inches). They also have a slightly smaller Dry-Cap-UV that drys for 30 mins but the charger might not fit into that one.

It depends on the version. It can be a little as 30 mins to an one hour and 30 to Two hours uv 2 the pro is a different thing it is continuous. But the cool part is you leave the charger in as it drys so you can charge as you dry. The only problem is making sure your charger fits in the dryer right you have to measure it open and at its highest point. I been using it and it does a great job just without the heat. That is important for rechargeable to avoid as it can damage the hearing aid. There is web pages for Flow med just scroll down and change it to fan dry and it can bring up the specs. Hope this is helpful.

If VA is supplying the hearing aids, I am surprised that they don’t supply the charger/dryer.

They are separate items. I am surprised too that they didn’t discuss that need too. That is why it is good to have a place to ask questions and share information.

I have that as well, and it came with a USB power supply.

Maybe an airtight container (pipe) that you could put your aids in that had a fitting you could hook a HVAC vacuum pump to would be quick enough to get that moisture out.
No temperature issue.
No UV for sanitation though.
Pretty simple.

Like a vacuum sealer?

I was researching a bit how dryers work and what causes evaporation.

Think about laundry on the rope and which days it will dry fastest.
Dry wind is the winner. But remember, it’s outside and there’s huge volume of air that can carry moisture.

Redux system uses vacuum not to vacuum water out but to reduce temperature evaporation point of the water by reducing the pressure, air is still the one doing the transfer job. Yes there’s still the air inside, since it’s heavy box, not a plastic bag. Also, vacuum means that they’re not letting outside air in. And they are heating it as well.

Since that’s expensive, for home users they just use heaters. Which now with rechargeables poses a problem.

Dessicants in a box just can’t do anything useful IMO since there’s no airflow at all.

Now the question is what dessicant with an airflow can do.

My claim is - not much. It is still the wind who does the job.

If you live in non humid climate, putting HA in a box with closed lid, that fan either circulate the air inside (even if it’s not air tight) so then dessicant should take in the moisture from the air, or they pull in the air from the outside, in that case, what’s the point of dessicant, just let the air out.

If you live in humid climate, since those boxes aren’t airtight, humidity from the air outside will probably enter more to the dessicant than moisture from your HA will go up in the humid air.

I think the best is fast wind, cold or body temperature warm, with plenty of room so air that can move around and actually bring that moisture out.

So, hairdryer on cold and blow towards HA. That would be my goto for shower like accidents. If that air cannot enter inside and take the water on a ride, nothing can.

I mean, just look how fast your hair dries, no dessicants anywhere, and each strand of hair is definitely flooded and not that it just ‘have a bit of moisture’.

For sweat and so, fan on the bottom of the box with open lid, pulling the air from the below, and doing it relatively fast should work. Since only thing that matters is airflow, and that is of the fresh not saturated air.

I think they do long cycles because speed is low so to get the enough air moving around.

I’m not happy with buyable solutions, at least from what I could read about how they’re supposed to work.

When you research air dehumidifier, the proper one not dessicant based, you’ll see completely different tech.

A dehumidifier works by drawing warm air currents into its coils via a fan. The warm air contracts as it’s fed through the refrigerated coils of the machine, and condensation is left inside the dehumidifier

That’s the way you really pull out moisture from the air that carries it.

Dessicants take days for pathetic amounts.
Dessicants for HAs, you don’t vacuum seal them after each use, so they slowly absorb everything around them anyway.

I don’t know, I just don’t see efficiency in those dryers made for HAs. Especially compared to regular but good hair dryer on cold.

I am on my second set of hearing aids in 12 years.
My first pair died on me every time I started to sweat. My audiologist gave me the Hal-Hen jar and I had much less trouble with them but, after 5 years they were going and I found a new audi who was much closer to me than my previous one so I switched and got the new aids. I am on year 6 with them and I put them in the jar every night. My audi has commented several times that they are in much better shape than most of her customers.
I think the air dryers are good if you get them really wet and you need them dried out quickly.

I fell in the river head first out of a boat several years ago. After drying the aids as best I could, one worked o.k. but the second didn’t revive until I was driving home in an air-conditioned vehicle. They are still working now, though they are my backups. They are the ones that lasted 11 years and are still going.

I trust that you refresh the desiccant beads periodically in a microwave oven.

It is more essential in higher humidity settings. The goal is to prolong the life of the aids.