Batteries

[Guest guest]

,

The batteries wont hold a charge forever. Try it. Charge one then

leave it sit for a few days. Pop it back in the charger, it will not show a

full charge.

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I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for reading. So, I

got some flip-up contact lenses.

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Hi Evon,

I have no clue why it takes Cochlear so long to submit to Medicare.

And Medicare is the ONLY one they do submit to. Since I get such long

use on my batteries, I haven't had to buy any in more than 3 years. So I

don't know what the heck the code is, since Cochlear handled it for me

last time I bought them more than 3 years ago. I'm still trying to run

through a carton of 30 packs of batteries that I bought 3+ years

ago--some have pull dates of Dec 2005. They still work, and I'm still

getting 13 days with them, so now that I know that, I'll never buy

another carton again. Yes, I do use SPEAK, a very low draw program, and

I'm in a fairly quiet environment - not a lot of noise around here, both

of which explain the battery life. NEVER give up good hearing for

battery life.

used to know the codes, and I was hoping she would post them.

, if you (or someone else) has these codes, I'm sure that others,

as

well as myself would be very grateful to obtain those codes. My own

experience at attempts to get reimbursed for the cost of batteries is not

such a

delightful one. Last May, (2006) I celebrated my " Medicare " birthday. I

was

informed by a friend that the Cochlear Reimbursement Dept would send a

claim to

Medicare for me to be reimbursed for the cost. They had me fill out a

form

and submit to them. I did this right away. I waited. I waited some more.

Nothing....so, I wrote, I called, I wrote. Nothing. I finally talked with

a

person in the Reimbursement Dept who told me the claim was submitted to

Medicare in October. Now, why it would take five months for them to even

submit the claim to Medicare is beyond my realm of understanding. Well,

this story goes on and on....but, the final jest of it is that I still

remain without a

reimbursement. As to ever getting any sort of reimbursement for the cost

of

the upgrade to the Freedom goes, I would hope so - but, I'm not counting

on

it. I have a very good secondary insurance as well - so, it all remains

to be

seen. I've had the upgrade since December and all the paperwork I can do

myself accomplished shortly thereafter. So, good luck if you are on

Medicare

as your Primary Insurance folks.

Evon

[Guest guest]

,

Yes I can help you. I suggest the well known method, called Blood Sweat

and Tears. Clean the house. You will find the battery..and probably many

other items missing for years.

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[Guest guest]

, bring a little kid in to look for you. They live closer to the

floor and can find all sorts of things down there. lol

When these type of gizmos get dropped, them seem to take wings and fly.

They have a secret landing pad. I seriously believe that! Somehow, they fly

and then get wheels down for landing. Look UNDER nearby furniture. Hey, as

far as that goes....who knows how high and far that flight was? You may need

to get on hands/knees and overturn furniture before you locate it. If you

have floor vents....just know that they like to suck things into them that are

dropped.

Good luck! Evon

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Hi ,

Sometime what goes up does not always come back down. Do you have ceiling

light? Maybe they are hiding up there grinning and laughing at you trying to

find them.

How about open window? Maybe they flew out and now are dancing around the grass

having a ball feeling free as a bird.

Do you have a pet, maybe it ate it or picked the batteries up went outside to

bury it?

Do you have shoes on the floor? Maybe it flew into the shoes and are hiding way

down to the tip of the shoes?

Then again, maybe they are magician and disappeared to the blue yonder fore

ever.

Dolly Dolphin

[Guest guest]

,

To be safe, purchase another battery. The other one should

eventually show up, but a spare will be a great investment. Barry in

PA.

>

> Hi All,

> I was doing a typical blonde thing today, switching from the

Freedom to

> the 3G. I had my spare rechargeable battery in the case with the 3G,

and

> when I opened it up, the battery flew somewhere. With the mess around

> here, I've yet to find it. I figured it would be magnetic and

brought my

> magnet sweeper in, then discovered the rechargeable battery is NOT

> magnetic.

> Short of cleaning the entire room, does anyone have a clue how to

find

> a missing rechargeable battery?

> , the bewildered Blonde

>

[Guest guest]

,

The lost of the batteries (if rechargeable) is no joking matter. What size

number of batteries do you use? For example, size 675 is small, size 13 is

smaller. But I doubt that a CI processor would use this.

I suggest that you retrace you steps, for example, were you sitting on the

sofa when you lost the battery ? Then look in that area. If you knew the

room where the battery was lost sift the clutter around that area. If you live

in a small studio apartment there is not much to search. Also, if you have

chairs and sofa with removable pillows look under there. It may not be as

hopeless as it seems. - Gerald

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[Guest guest]

i thought of an idea!!! how about checking on the

processor itself on your head?

--- EBurk56622@... wrote:

> , bring a little kid in to look for you.

> They live closer to the

> floor and can find all sorts of things down there.

> lol

>

> When these type of gizmos get dropped, them seem to

> take wings and fly.

> They have a secret landing pad. I seriously

> believe that! Somehow, they fly

> and then get wheels down for landing. Look UNDER

> nearby furniture. Hey, as

> far as that goes....who knows how high and far that

> flight was? You may need

> to get on hands/knees and overturn furniture before

> you locate it. If you

> have floor vents....just know that they like to

> suck things into them that are

> dropped.

> Good luck! Evon

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Dolly,

Great suggestions. I once told a friend of mine who was complaining

about the amount of dust that gathers on ceiling fans that it was no use

running it backwards at high speed, because the dirt does NOT fly off no

matter how fast you run the fan. She laughed and agreed. She'd tried it

herself.

Yes I do have a pet Siberian Husky. So well trained she won't eat

when I'm in the room. And her food gets put in her dish in another room.

She's not an eater of things she sees on the floor.

Small person - probably get buried under the rubble. All good

suggestions. I even thought of dropping the other one and watching where

it went to see if they sought each other out. I may have to --Goddess

forbid -- straighten up around here.

The shoes on the floor are sandals, so I'd see them.

All good suggestions.

Thanks,

Hi ,

Sometime what goes up does not always come back down. Do you have ceiling

light? Maybe they are hiding up there grinning and laughing at you trying

to find them.

How about open window? Maybe they flew out and now are dancing around the

grass having a ball feeling free as a bird.

Do you have a pet, maybe it ate it or picked the batteries up went

outside to bury it?

Do you have shoes on the floor? Maybe it flew into the shoes and are

hiding way down to the tip of the shoes?

Then again, maybe they are magician and disappeared to the blue yonder

fore ever.

[Guest guest]

Thanks to all for your advice. Kids in the house?? Their parents would

be afraid they'd get lost in the clutter and not seen again...which is

sometimes not a bad thing. But Dolly Dolphin wins the prize for

suggesting NOT looking on the floor. So I started with the table, and

there in a box of jewelry findings, I found the missing battery. Imagine

that. It must have hit my hip, and flown into the jewelry stuff, which

was in a big yogurt container, so 8 inches off the table.

thanks for all the suggestions. The battery, she is found. Didn't

bother to send for another rechargeable, since I can also use disposable

batteries in the processor. I've been getting 13 DAYS (yes, you read

that correctly) with disposables and the 3G. 4 days with rechargeables

and the Freedom, so it's not like I'm going to run out of batteries any

time soon. STILL trying to finish off a carton of batteries I bought in

2004, which have " best used by Jan 06 " on them. I get such incredible

battery life that I will never buy 300 batteries again. And someone sent

me some Rayovac cochlear batteries, that don't have a pull date on them,

so I'm running through them now. I use SPEAK, which is a very low power

draw, and have always had incredible battery life.

Thanks, all,

[Guest guest]

Mercury-containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Mercury-containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Act (public law 104-142) was enacted by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The purpose of the law was to phase out the use of mercury in batteries and to provide for the efficient and cost-effective collection and recycling or proper disposal of used sugar cadmium batteries, small sealed lead-acid batteries, and certain other batteries.

It reduced the incidence of heavy metals in municipal waste and in streams and ground water that resulted from the disposal of:

mercury in single-use (primary cell) batteries toxic metal content such as lead from lead-acid batteries and the cadmium in rechargeable batteries, namely Ni-Cads . The sale of the first of these was banned (with the exception of the allowance of up to 25mg of mercury per button cell) and the second family of products was given specific labeling and disposal requirements.

As a result, most retailers who sell rechargeable and other special batteries will take the old ones back for free recycling and safe disposal. The not-for-profit Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) [1], used by most retailers, reclaims the metals within the old batteries to make new products such as batteries (mercury, cadmium, lead) and stainless steel (nickel).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-containing_and_Rechargeable_Battery_Management_Act

On 1/17/08 12:42 PM, " Boopercat@... " <Boopercat@...> wrote:

Saw the strangest thing. Today I took the original batteries out of a child's toy. They were regular old AA's but a brand I had never seen before called " King Ring " . On the side it said " Mercury Free " . Does this mean regular batteries have MERCURY????

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[Guest guest]

Judy,

I now use ZeniPower implant batteries for my disposables. I buy them in bulk

and get them from http://www.microbattery.com

They are much less expensive than PowerOne and they last the same amount of time

with the same sound quality for me.

In actuality, I notice no difference in sound quality between the disposables

and rechargeables. I hear equally well with either.

Happy Hearing!

Carol

Boca Raton, FL

N24C 3G left ear -12/11/01-upgraded to Freedom on 2/19/08

N Freedom- right ear- implanted 3/01/06 activated 4/6/06

Batteries

OK here is one that should get a little attention..........

1. Where do you buy your bulk batteries (I have been using powerone Implant

plus)?

2. Do you notice a volume / quality difference with disposable batteries vs

rechargables? I personally notice an improvement with the disposable batteries.

Judy

Texas

Freedom R ear May '07

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[Guest guest]

Hi Judy,

we use the Zenipower batteries from Microbattery as well. We live in South

Africa and I import them for the wearers in SA.

We find that they last the same in most instances and sometimes even

longer. You can get the PowerOne at Microbattery as well, but the Zenipower

is much easier on the pocket. Good luck, Altha

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Judy Jeffcoat <judyjeffcoat@...>

wrote:

> OK here is one that should get a little attention..........

>

> 1. Where do you buy your bulk batteries (I have been using powerone

> Implant plus)?

>

> 2. Do you notice a volume / quality difference with disposable batteries

> vs rechargables? I personally notice an improvement with the disposable

> batteries.

>

>

> Judy

> Texas

> Freedom R ear May '07

>

>

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>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks! I ordered Zenipower today, you are correct they are much more

economical.

Altha Reinecke <altha.reinecke@...> wrote:

Hi Judy,

we use the Zenipower batteries from Microbattery as well. We live in South

Africa and I import them for the wearers in SA.

We find that they last the same in most instances and sometimes even

longer. You can get the PowerOne at Microbattery as well, but the Zenipower

is much easier on the pocket. Good luck, Altha

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Judy Jeffcoat <judyjeffcoat@...>

wrote:

> OK here is one that should get a little attention..........

>

> 1. Where do you buy your bulk batteries (I have been using powerone

> Implant plus)?

>

> 2. Do you notice a volume / quality difference with disposable batteries

> vs rechargables? I personally notice an improvement with the disposable

> batteries.

>

>

> Judy

> Texas

> Freedom R ear May '07

>

>

> ---------------------------------

> Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Search.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hallo Judy,

Glad to be of any help. Hope that you find that they last longer!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Judy Jeffcoat <judyjeffcoat@...>

wrote:

> Thanks! I ordered Zenipower today, you are correct they are much more

> economical.

>

>

>

> Altha Reinecke <altha.reinecke@... <altha.reinecke%40gmail.com>>

> wrote:

> Hi Judy,

> we use the Zenipower batteries from Microbattery as well. We live in South

> Africa and I import them for the wearers in SA.

> We find that they last the same in most instances and sometimes even

> longer. You can get the PowerOne at Microbattery as well, but the

> Zenipower

> is much easier on the pocket. Good luck, Altha

>

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Judy Jeffcoat

<judyjeffcoat@...<judyjeffcoat%40>

> >

> wrote:

>

> > OK here is one that should get a little attention..........

> >

> > 1. Where do you buy your bulk batteries (I have been using powerone

> > Implant plus)?

> >

> > 2. Do you notice a volume / quality difference with disposable batteries

> > vs rechargables? I personally notice an improvement with the disposable

> > batteries.

> >

> >

> > Judy

> > Texas

> > Freedom R ear May '07

> >

> >

> > ---------------------------------

> > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with

> Search.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

It doesn't sound like the battery is working properly or getting a

proper charge. I usually walk a mile (at least) a day and the battery

only goes down maybe 2 bars. I have an invacare as well.

Amy

batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

It doesn't sound like the battery is working properly or getting a

proper charge. I usually walk a mile (at least) a day and the battery

only goes down maybe 2 bars. I have an invacare as well.

Amy

batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

It doesn't sound like the battery is working properly or getting a

proper charge. I usually walk a mile (at least) a day and the battery

only goes down maybe 2 bars. I have an invacare as well.

Amy

batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

It doesn't sound like the battery is working properly or getting a

proper charge. I usually walk a mile (at least) a day and the battery

only goes down maybe 2 bars. I have an invacare as well.

Amy

batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

It could be a connecter problem between the battery and the chair. That

happened to me recently on my invacare chair.

On 4/21/08 7:03 PM, " blueyedaze@... " <blueyedaze@...> wrote:

> It doesn't sound like the battery is working properly or getting a

> proper charge. I usually walk a mile (at least) a day and the battery

> only goes down maybe 2 bars. I have an invacare as well.

>

> Amy

>

> batteries

>

> I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

> am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

> past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

> seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

> battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

>

> Peace to You,

>

> Beth

>

>

[Guest guest]

Can you tell me if the bars on your chair showing how much battery remains, seem

to go down in equal measurement? By that I mean, I notice after mine has

dropped by 2 bars it is almost immediately after this - it continues to drop all

the way down to the blinking red light. I would expect it to go down gradually

with the yellow bars showing for a period of time. This doesn't seem to happen.

Thanks in advance for any advise.

Peace,

Beth batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

Definitely sounds like a fault, phone dealer and tell them, they should be

able to use diagnostics verbally. If not, the joystick may be by Dynamics,

they were the company who used to make the joystick, and they would know for

sure (in the UK they are really helpful), so maybe try them. Any blinking

from the 'on' (green?) light at all? I know it's a nightmare when the chair

becomes unreliable, good luck.

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Subject: Re: batteries

Can you tell me if the bars on your chair showing how much battery remains,

seem to go down in equal measurement? By that I mean, I notice after mine

has dropped by 2 bars it is almost immediately after this - it continues to

drop all the way down to the blinking red light. I would expect it to go

down gradually with the yellow bars showing for a period of time. This

doesn't seem to happen. Thanks in advance for any advise.

Peace,

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[Guest guest]

Mine usually go down in twos, but my display sounds different because

the bars are black. When it's almost dead, it reads " e recharge " .

Re: batteries

Can you tell me if the bars on your chair showing how much battery

remains, seem to go down in equal measurement? By that I mean, I

notice after mine has dropped by 2 bars it is almost immediately after

this - it continues to drop all the way down to the blinking red light.

I would expect it to go down gradually with the yellow bars showing

for a period of time. This doesn't seem to happen. Thanks in advance

for any advise.

Peace,

Beth batteries

I need advise. I have an Invacare Power Chair. It has 1 battery. I

am told the battery is good but it only lasts me half a day. In the

past I have always used mobility scooters. They have 2 batteries and

seemed to last longer. Does anyone know if there is a longer lasting

battery for an Invacare Power chair? Thanks in advance.

Peace to You,

Beth

[Guest guest]

For what it's worth - going back even before the Freedom came out and

rechargeable batteries became available for it, this is what the advice was for

the

3G. Take the disposables out of the 3G but place them in the dry and store

along with the processor. This allowed the thing to dry inside and out and for

many, extended the life of the batteries. Now with the Freedom, I've stopped

taking it apart, but I DO take the battery cage out of the processor, leaving

the batteries in the cage, but placing the cage in the dry and store with the

processor. If you don't like doing that, I might suggest you do it once a week

of so to give the full inside of the processor to really dry. Hope this

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Hi ,

If all goes well I am getting both, it depends on insurance coverage.  I wanted

the BTE but  the audi recommended trying for both.  That sounds good to me, that

way I will have a " spare "   I am anxious for the change, just hopeful that the

change works as well as the original.  After 12 years and very good results with

the first one, I have very high standards lol...

Have a wonderful day!

(in Oregon)

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the rain. "