So you just acquired the latest hearing aid technology, but are disappointed with the shorter battery life? This may not be the batteries the audiologists supplied though. You may have been partying with the new technology and having fun at the battery’s expense. These hearing aid battery life extension tips may help you improve your hearing day.
Tech Tips for Extending Hearing Battery Life
Not all hearing aid battery brands are equally good. The companies that push their products hardest, quite often have inferior products. This could be because they get less repeat business from dissatisfied customers. Experiment with different brands. Keep a log and you’ll soon see why all batteries are not the same.
All batteries, regardless of their technology and brand, gradually drain their energy with the passage of time. Wise shoppers scratch through store displays, for batteries with longest sell-by-dates. This simple step could buy you an extra day’s battery life, but there’s more to know.
Removing the sticky tab from a zinc-air, hearing aid battery brings it in contact with the atmosphere with which it interacts. Therefore it follows we should only expose a new battery for a short while, before we start using it for the first time. A minute or so should be all we need to be up and running.
User-Driven Parameters to Extend Battery Life
The single life of a hearing aid battery very much depends on the use to which we put it. By way of an analogy, the range of an electric car depends on how hard we drive it. Likewise, the deafer we are in one ear, the harder that hearing aid must work. And why, incidentally, one hearing aid battery usually goes flat first.
These tips for extending hearing aid battery life close with the observation that some hearing aid apps consume more hearing aid battery energy than others. Feedback cancellation and noise reduction come in handy at a cost. Avoid using wireless streaming if you are away from base, without spare batteries with you ‘just in case’.
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