Hearing Aid Batteries Draining Too Fast? These May Be the Reasons!
Hearing the beep or “low battery” voice right into the ear is annoying for people who constantly wear hearing aids throughout the day.
Understanding the factors that are involved in draining the battery is crucially important to create a hassle-free hearing experience. The quality of your battery can affect the hearing aid’s performance, the sound quality of both- speech and streamed audio and how long they will last until needed replaced.
Therefore, to help you get the most out of your batteries, we have pulled together some valuable information that will give you an idea about what exactly drains the life of your hearing aid batteries so soon.
Your level of Hearing loss Many people are unaware of the fact that the greater the hearing loss, the more the batteries have to work, thus draining faster than usual. That’s because your level of hearing loss affects the strength of amplification that your hearing aid has to provide.
Change in Altitude Can Impact Batteries The higher your elevation above the sea level, the more it reduces the life of hearing aid batteries as the level of oxygen at higher altitudes is low. That said, hearing aid users when taking a flight or climbing the mountains, must keep some spare batteries with them, especially if they are on their last leg.
Advanced Hearing Features Can Drain Batteries With the arrival of digital hearing aids, people are able to hear much better with these latest devices than the traditional ones. Advanced features in hearing aids like noise cancellation, tinnitus relied, wireless streaming of calls, movies, music basically provide users the ability to better hear lost frequencies.
However, these advanced features are also the reasons why your hearing device battery dies so quickly.
The battery drain rate can increase by 300% when streaming using smartphone and Bluetooth. Also, using FM or looping technology can increase the drain rate by 100%.
Weather Impacts the Life of Hearing Aid Batterie The new season not only brings a change in temperature, moisture, humidity and snow but affects the functioning and performance of your hearing aids batteries as well.
The humidity and temperature can affect the life of your hearing aid batteries and here’s how:
• Batteries dry out faster when exposed to low humidity. • High humidity or moisture can cause swelling, leakage and reduced battery life of your device.
• Those who are exposed to low temperatures on a daily basis must know that the battery life of hearing aids can shorten as voltage dips and depletes.
• Battery performance can easily be affected when the temperature approaches 90-100 degrees. In fact, humidity over 50% can negatively impact the batteries.
• Besides these reasons, make sure to never
do the “freezing batteries” trick with hearing aid batteries. This trick might be useful and extend the life of other devices but doesn’t work with hearing aid batteries at all. In fact, it makes the performance even worse.
To sum up Though sooner or later your hearing aid batteries will run out and you can’t do anything particularly to save their life, with proper precautions like taking out hearing aids when not in use and keeping the spare hearing aid batteries handy can prevent you from the hassle of going to the market and make an emergency purchase.
Apart from that, you can think about rechargeable hearing aids if you are planning to buy a new set. Simply dock them on a charger every night before you go to sleep and you have the fully charged hearing aids the next day.
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