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Happy holidays everybody. For those of you who have a pair of backup hearing aids how often do you turn them on?

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I have backup aids and at least once a month I wear my backups so I can exercise them. I make sure they get a good drain of the batteries they recharge them and put them away. My chargers all have backup batteries in them to I rotate my chargers too. Yes I said chargers, I travel some and always have a to go pack ready to go on a moments notice. Before retiring that could be at anytime, now that I am retired ir is ready for emergency trips to a hospital or to see family or friends. We also travel to see the country. I have been caught with a single charger and had it go bad, never again.

Best thing for backup hearing aids is to use replaceable batteries. I have an identical pair and do nothing with them but leave them in a case.

Unfortunately having disposable battery aids anymore isn’t possible. Like I have said my aids are provided to me by the Veterans Administration and they are always the top tier aids. You learn to adapt to your situation.

It may be possible. I am not sure it seems that the news top tier are rechargeable. I have been wearing rechargeable for 6 years and absolutely love them. Even my backup aids are rechargeable.

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I just had a peek at the procurement summary spreadsheet. The VA is dispensing in both rechargeable and non-rechargeable for , , and Customs. Almost all of the categories have product from the 5 major brands. Specific models aren’t mentioned, except that “multiple processors” and Cros are split out to their own tabs. So that what you will from that. I know of no policy of going towards only rechargeables, only that the industry seems to be headed that way. If you have to go a generation or more older to get disposable battery models (because the makers don’t make them, not because the VA won’t dispense them) will that be acceptable? For some essential. If you want infinio, then you take rechargeable. Other brands are the same way. As far as I know, you can still get Lumity models in both BTE and RIC with disposables. That will be cut off at some point, I’m sure.

One thing I noticed is there is a category for SCIF hearing aids. I wonder if a patient can be issued a pair for working in controlled spaces in addition to a “regular” pair? I could have used that a year ago. I’m retired now, so OBE for me.

Regards,
WH

My backups use disposable batteries. They’re Rexton Trax 42s and probably close to 10 years old now. When I needed them last year, they’d been sitting for several years, but I popped new batteries in them, and off I went. The audiologist at Costco updated them to my latest hearing test for me, and they got me through the couple weeks between when I lost my last aids and when I got new ones well enough.

The new aids I got in December 2024 were Phonak Lumitys and use disposable batteries. I imagine next time I get new they will have to be rechargeables, but I’ll keep the Lumitys for backup from then on.

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