Hi-pro to Starkey Cable advice needed

Have you looked for a place on the hearing aid to plug in a cable?

Yes, I have looked. I see no external connectors, but when the battery case is open I can see copper so can only assume the cable, be it the orange or purple, will connect some how. I will know more when I get the cables. For sure, I’ll be documenting all of this to make it easier on the next guy.

Copper? You should see 4 very small pins. Look at it with a magnifying glass. Or with a macro camera. It will look like a very tiny male version of the following macro picture of the female version. Also there are red dots on each version for alignment.

Hope you can see this? The connector seems to match up with your photo of the cable.

@pvc said:

Copper? You should see 4 very small pins. Look at it with a magnifying glass. Or with a macro camera. It will look like a very tiny male version of the following macro picture of the female version. Also there are red dots on each version for alignment.

I got my purple cables today. The literature says "Starkey Audibel Hearing Aid Hi Pro Left Programming Cable Sonion P/N: 4402-3018350 (272549585983). Model CS 44 HiPro Cable; Name: 659/P14/2000 Blue MiniDIN-556 Blue-Straight-; Log No 52265282; Prod :17/13(WW/YY)

I am able to plug them directly into the Wi HA’s directly. Seems I made a mistake and do NOT need the Orange Flex things. Oh, well, an opportunity to open an account on Ebay and sell something.

Wondering if there’s a way to post a file on this WEB site to make it easier on people trying to do the same thing. Too difficult to search through all these postings for all this information. Easier if it was in one spot, in one file, for one kind of hearing aid. Something like that.

@allenmoretsky said:

-<snip>-I am able to plug them directly into the Wi HA’s directly. Seems I made a mistake and do NOT need the Orange Flex things.-<snip>-

Look at the cable guide, column RIC 312.

@pvc said:

You should recheck that, I thought is was cable (straight), not cables and orange flex strips under column RIC 312.

@allenmoretsky said:

-<snip>-Wondering if there’s a way to post a file on this WEB site to make it easier on people trying to do the same thing. Too difficult to search through all these postings for all this information. Easier if it was in one spot, in one file, for one kind of hearing aid. Something like that.

Yes, there is. Just collect all of your salient points into a document, convert that to an image or a PDF file, store that somewhere on the Internet available 24-7, and display the image here. Like this…

Sorry, picture got lost.

Or start a new thread with just that one image. Then you and the other 2 people in the world who are trying to self program this specific model Starkey legacy hearing aid can discuss it to your heart’s content.

You seem easily distracted by things like this and drift off topic. More on topic, Did you reach any conclusions about alignment. When you plug the cable into your HA how do you know that pins 1-4 of the cable are aligned with pins 1-4 on the HA?

Eatra credit if you can determine whether the pinout (pins 1-4) of the purple cable and the pinout (pins 1-4) of the standard CS44 cable are identical. The pinout of a standard CS44 cable is displayed earlier in this thread. So you would only need to test continuity on pins 1-4 on the purple cable.

Extra credit if you can determine whether a standard CS44 cable with it’s curved head can fit into the HA with the proper alignment. From your picture it can only fit one way with the cable pointing towards the battery door. I don’t know if this position will achieve the proper alignment for pins 1-4?

If this is the “non-straight” cable, it would never work as the HA receptacle is too recessed and there is too little room to accommodate the head of the cable.

@pvc said:

On the standard CS44 cable (see images below) there is a red dot for visual alignment and there is also a slot for physical alignment making the plug only able to fit one way.

@allenmoretsky said:

-<snip>-As for documenting this, I will do so. I gather from your comments that there is no way to publish and keep a paper on this forum. I would think someone who wants to self program other Starkeys might benefit as well. As I mentioned before just too hard to wade through past posts for all the info needed.

Well there’s not much to document. The only thing we discovered is that Starkey cables work with Starkey HAs. Now there’s a surprise

I suspect that the pinout of a Starkey cable is probably identical to a CS44 cable pinout. But that doesn’t help if you don’t have enough clearance to plug the CS44 cable into a Starkey HA. Doesn’t help at all!

What might work (for Starkey HAs that use flexstrips) is a CS44 cable plugged into a flexstrip, and then the flexstrip plugged into a Starkey HA. But we didn’t prove that??

Good luck with your fitting. Searching these forums for audiologyonline might provide help in the form of free training.