Bought DB100 Dry Box & Hearing Aid Broke after 1st use - unlucky coincidence???

[Lucidity55]

I wear NHS Opticon Spirit Zest aids - both ears and store them in a beaker at night with drying beads. Getting bored of always having to reactivate the beads in the oven I decided to treat myself to the Amplicomms Hearing Aid Dryer I'd seen advertised on the 'Action on Hearing Loss' Site. I set it to normal humidity, removed the batteries and used the dryer for the very first time... The next morning my right hand aid had broken, making a clicking noise like a ticking bomb. My local audiology dept. were able to provide a replacement and had encountered this fault before but they didn't know the cause. The audiologist I saw hadn't even heard of electric dryers (useless!) so she couldn't comment on whether it had been the cause!
Anyway, I'm now terrified to use the dryer - I had just started a new job when I had to ask for time off to sort out my broken aid, so I really don't want to use the dryer again and find it breaks another aid meaning more time off work! But I feel like I've wasted £50!
Can anyone please reassure me that they use this model of plug-in dryer without encountering problems and that this was perhaps an unlucky coincidence??!!

 

[Oc318]

I wouldn't use a dryer... how humid does it get anyway? if you're tired of reactivating beads get ones that don't need reactivation. They're just silica gel with something that changes color when wet. They don't need reactivation much (much less that the reactivatable beads IME) and are cheap enough to not worry about the cost.