naisho

I'm curious about them. I'd like to go green instead of having all these Zinc batteries that go to waste every year or recycling center.

I saw it being offered from one of my trusted suppliers:
PowerOne Accu Rechargeable Hearing Aid batteries.

Amazon seems to have some raving reviews:

Has anyone ever tried rechargeable hearing aid batteries?

What's your experience? Does the battery give similar power as disposables?

Deafness

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coolgirlspyer90

I never seen those before! I wonder if they will work with CI disposable batteries since they're almost the same.. I use PowerOne batteries for CI's. This might be handy!! I'll have to tell my friends about it.

naisho

I messed up on the amazon link, here is 14 reviews for one of the sizes by PowerOne:

I also use PowerOne for the last four years.

About using this in CI, you will have to check with the voltage.
For hearing aids, I've seen them from run batteries from 1.1 - 1.5 volts, I don't know about CI if they use the same or higher.

DeafBadger

I would be very interested in trying these.

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coolgirlspyer90

The CI disposable batteries are about 1.45 volts. I searched for PowerOne batteries and this is what it told me: Screen Shot 2012-07-04 at 3.31.07 AM.jpg

I wonder if they do make rechargeable CI batteries like this one..

NaidaUP

They say if you don't get 10 days out of normal batteries, you won't be able to get a day out of the rechargables ones. I only get 7 days out of my 675s.

Bottesini

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This one is cheaper and is supposed to put hearing aids in reach of the very poor. They have hearing aids and chargers.

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green427

I saw them online and did a little bit of research, and I thought we had this discussion before:

For regular hearing aid users, it is cost prohibitive, as it will still be cheaper to buy regular batteries many times over many years to equal the cost of one charger and a set of rechargeables. The batteries are designed for a maximum daily charging life of 2-3 years.

For CI users (me, for example: I use about 600 batteries per year on my CI's), the charger & batteries will pay for themselves over 3 or 4 years, which is not worth it to me, as I still need to buy new rechargeables after 2-3 years.

You can do what I do: collect all the used 675 batteries in one big bucket, and drop them off at a scrapyard. There is not enough acid in the Zinc Air batteries to cause problems.

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kokonut

Hopefully one of these days we'll have a hearing aid small/thin enough with the capability to use body heat as a source of power. That'd be ubber cool.

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whatdidyousay!

I got my health department to recycle hearing aid batteries. People can now bring their dead batteries to a drug store or their audiologist .

DeafBadger

Do they pay you for the metal?

Or just accept it for recycling (which is good, too)?

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green427

They will accept any metals, but they will not pay you unless you have at least 100 pounds of scrap. The state has recycling bins in a few places and they have a bin for used batteries.

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Smithtr

That is nice expensive I wish! I figure out!

I thinks back up battery? I expect to I will find out recommend ?

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Bottesini

It costs about $58 for that solar battery charger and batteries. I wonder if it would last very long with a 675 battery.

I don't want to have to change the battery two times a day.

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Smithtr

Really, better recommend to more than high 1 or 2 weeks, I have lots long 2 weeks pretty not bad, I guess depend on battery not enough!

it is weak I guess, I thinks problem issues experience, I understand clear

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