I personally disagree i love my rechargeable hearing aids
You require less power and likely don’t spend 93% of your time wearing hearing aids using Bluetooth.
There are many people who can’t get through the day and shouldn’t have to limit Bluetooth to get through the day.
By the way the industry is going tho, it’s likely only rechargeable will be available to people who are profoundly deaf as well.
I only asked one question at the start and that was ONLY because I was away from my home so felt more reliant on my . At home, I wouldn’t even put them in, in an emergency.
I will say, the cheaper rechargeables aren’t doing much to help their own cause. The first pair I tried used a case that was basically a clone of the Phonak Combi. It was absurdly large! That would have been ok if it had a built-in battery to store additional charges, but it didn’t. It was just stupidly big for no obvious reason.
I didn’t always want to put them in first thing in the morning, because I don’t need them for my morning routine and commute. So I had two options: 1) take them out of the giant case, put them in a smaller case and put it in my bag, or 2) unplug the charger case and toss the whole thing into my bag. By default, they turned on when removed from the case, and there was no way to change that. So I often forgot to turn them off while moving them to a smaller case, and realized midway through the day that they’d been on for several hours already.
But the real kicker was 2). When they’re in the charger case, and the charger case gets disconnected from a power source, that registered the same as the aids being removed from the case (probably because it’s just monitoring whether the aids themselves are connected to a power source). Whenever I unplugged the case, they’d automatically turn on in the case! That was bad enough when I tried to take them to work, but at least then I’d notice before they ran out of juice. But if I unplugged the charger so that I could plug something else in at home, knowing that the aids were already fully charged, they were often dead by the time I went to take them out the next day. And if the cord accidentally got unplugged because someone tripped over it… you get the idea.
If I’d kept them, I guess I’d have bought an extra charger to keep at work, but the whole set-up was just ridiculous. My current aids have a much smaller case, just a bit bigger than airpods, and I was able to deactivate the auto-on feature. That’s made things much easier.
I have my aids connected to Bluetooth 100% of the day, my aids are connected to my Samsung phone directly, to my connect clip, which is connected to my fire tablet, and my iPad I and streaming audiobooks from one to the other all day, even when I am out hiking or walking now I am listening to audiobooks. My aids have the 105 db receivers, and my aids are not set for comfort but so I can understand what is being said around me. My aids are being pushed to the limit as for as controlling background noise and wind noise. And I have my aids on from the moment I wake up until I go to bed. So just wearing time averages 17 hours and streaming from on of my devices including a TV adapter is about half that time.
I realize that you love your rechargeables. I have no trouble understanding why some people prefer them. If no one liked rechargeables then I wouldn’t be worried that disposables will go away completely.
I am streaming at least 7 hours each day. I read and listen to books almost continuously. In fact I have already doubled my yearly goal of books read and listening to. This year so far I have read/listened to 120 books with. An average listening time of 7 hours each.
That’s really good for you but your hearing loss is not in the profound range so Altho you have 105 receivers, your gain levels won’t be as much as someone in the profound range.
Also everyone is individual. Despite you having no issues, it doesn’t dispute other people who are having issues.
Altho you feel rechargeable’s are the best thing ever, they can/could cause issues for other people.
My size 13 batteries last less than 2 days on the Bluetooth side so clearly rechargeable’s are a concern for me.
More than likely with your hearing loss you would be hard pressed to get aids that are rechargeable. But I know that the technology is improving daily. And there is change a foot that will soon outlaw disposable batteries. This change is foolish and unnecessary but what can we do when governments politicians are being paid by greedy corporations to screw the citizens.
Yep there was a time I was down on my rechargeable aids. But the and Oticon replaced the aids and I haven’t had any problems since. I have taken trips, camping, and cruises. I haven’t had any issues.
Hospital procedure. I got to stay overnight. My rechargeable ’s are Phonak Audeo Paradise P90R’s. I get 15 hours regularly…But that’s all. In at 8:30 first day. Left about 11:00 am next day.
I also couldn’t hear in the admission ward. Stretched out on my back, I could hear well behind me; couldn’t hear the doc at the foot of the bed. That was because my audiologist who dispensed them didn’t set them up right.
My preference would have been to have replaceable batteries. Mine are rechargeable.
I was admitted at 8:30 am first day. Stayed overnight. Left about 11:00 next day.
I also couldn’t hear in the admission and recovery ward the way that my Paradise P90R
s were set up.
Good memory! My audi never asked which battery source I wanted. It’s a miracle he got approval for new hearing aids for me before I was due for new in workman’s comp program. It was a disaster that he never set them up right† for 2 years.
All I’m aware of is that the Phonak Audeo Lumitys don’t have a disposable battery model. Can anybody give examples of specific brands and models that don’t offer disposable (other than Phonak Lumity)?
My Phonak Audeo Paradise P90’s were available with disposable batteries or rechargeable batteries. They were also available with a coil.
When my new-at-the-time audiologist said he would help he never discussed my preferences. I have a workman’s comp claim. i can get new ’s every 5 years. Mine were only about 2 years old.
He actually performed a miracle getting new hearing aids early for me. I plan to have the old hearing aids setup as back-ups.
My Paradise P90 R’s finally work really well. It’s taken two years and I’ve had to switch to a new hearing aid provisioner.
But the VA and Oticon replaced the aids and I haven’t had any problems since.
Here you go, not everyone is a member and certainly not everyone is able/can afford to have his/her replaced, since rechargeable HA have a high turn around at the , see Dr Cliff Hanger’s youtube video and see KS10 Costco posts.
Not saying there shouldn’t be rechargeable HA, quiet the opposite, but manufacturer should be fair and shouldn’t discriminate against having HA with disposable batteries, there is place for both and should be made available to all (looking at you Phonak/Unitron/Sonova).
For this post, not sure what the OP is trying to achieve, Naida & Xceed aren’t rechargeable so no problem on that side, luckily you can get at least 8 days from 675 batteries, so you will be out of most storms (me thinking, apart from the one that hit Noah***, I guess).
If Naida/Xceed were rechargeable, then a power-bank will certainly help, as do @markoo355 suggestion (which is a brilliant solution as well).
Not to mention that local authority (Wales/England/Scotland/NI) will certainly have an emergency plan to help people in difficult situation, like shelter everyone in library/gymnasium… with hot drink/food blankets and electric power for their portable devices.
In nutshell, there will be good people that will help others.
For this post, not sure what the OP is trying to achieve, Naida & Xceed aren’t rechargeable so no problem on that side, luckily you can get at least 8 days from 675 batteries
As stated, I said it looks like most WILL be rechargeable by the way things are going.
I also said WHAT WOULD YOU DO because most HAs seem to be going rechargeable.
Honestly it’s like Chinese Whispers even tho people are reading!
I also stated, it’s not actually about charging, my question. Power banks are extremely common these days.
I was admitted at 8:30 am first day. Stayed overnight. Left about 11:00 next day.
I also couldn’t hear in the admission and recovery ward the way that my Paradise P90R
s were set up.
You completely understand what this thread is about.
Did you find a solution to what to do in case you end up in hospital again?
(Apart from to remember to carry your charger around with you at all times.)
But when the message is “make it work and stop complaining”, that’s doing the industry’s work for them, and I don’t understand why anyone would want to do that.
I’m hardly a shill for “the industry”. Come on. I moved from replaceable battery aids to rechargeables and have been delighted. All of the trepidations that I had before have proved to be nothing to worry about. That’s all.
I admit that I find the "what if there’s a catastrophe’ arguments against rechargeable aids to be annoying. For heaven’s sake, all of the arguments against these aids in a life or death scenario could be made about cell phones. Most of us have come to accept that we have to recharge our cell phones and do so without much trouble. It’s the same with rechargeable aids. Easy peasy.
And by the way, I could imagine life or death scenarios where my disposable battery aids weren’t available because of unforeseen circumstances. A tree could fall on my car during an earthquake. That’s not a reason to not buy a car.
I think that all of us who are used to replaceable battery aids forget how we had to adjusts our habits to accommodate the need to replace batteries. It became second nature. It’s exactly the same with rechargables.
And please: stop telling me I’m a shill for the industry because I have a different opinion from you. Come on.
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