Re: Bitter Cold and Battery ?

[Guest guest]

Hi Alice,

No, I don't take my processor off when I'm outside, ...and no, I haven't noticed

any difference in my battery life.

I am in and out a lot, due to my job (a caseworker making home visits).

S.

Clarion CII 5/01

upstate NY

where we have had a lot of snow, and a lot of below zero weather with wind chill

making it even worse!

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From: Alice

Over the past couple of weeks, many of you have been dealing with

bitter cold temperatures and high winds dropping the wind chill

factor dangerously low. I'm very curious about something and hope a

number of you will share your experiences.

Have you noticed that the draw is higher on your batteries giving

you shorter battery life because of this cold weather? Have you

been taking your processors off when you are outside?

I'm curious. Those temps have been horrible. I don't miss them

that's for sure.

Alice

[Guest guest]

This is no place for a human being to be right now. It is actually balmy

today at 31. It has been tooooooo cold that I dont even have my processors

turned on when I am in the frigid cold. I dont want to ruin my processors :-

).Because I work in a nursing home that is at 72 degrees and then stepping

out into the minus degrees with those awful wind so you can picture it. My

coworkers know that I dont have sound when I go out. so they do help me out.

:-)

My audie did think it was a good idea.

This winter truly has been brutal.

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Snoopy

left implant 3G 7/19/02

right implant 3G 5/15/03

Bilateral and loving it!!

[Guest guest]

Snoopy, I've been a CI wearer for over 7 years now (both Nucleus and Clarion),

and live in very cold/snowy upstate NY, and have never had my processors

affected by the cold.

S

who wants people to know they CAN wear their processors in cold weather! I

guess it has to be an individual choice,

but I choose to hear........(I don't really have a choice, I have to be able to

hear, to do my job, and I'd put my CI at more risk taking it off, putting it

back on, taking it off,putting it back on, when I'm out in the field doing

several home visits).

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----- Original Message -----

From: snoopy1964@...

This is no place for a human being to be right now. It is actually balmy

today at 31. It has been tooooooo cold that I dont even have my processors

turned on when I am in the frigid cold. I dont want to ruin my processors :-

).Because I work in a nursing home that is at 72 degrees and then stepping

out into the minus degrees with those awful wind so you can picture it. My

coworkers know that I dont have sound when I go out. so they do help me out.

:-)

My audie did think it was a good idea.

This winter truly has been brutal.

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[Guest guest]

Good comments. I don't ever even have to think of this living in

New Mexico (extreme heat is more the issue here) but I wondered

about this last very severe cold spell that Northeasterners have

been experiencing. I believe they are saying that this is the

coldest weather in decades so that would mean that it's probably

something that hasn't been tested by CI users. Since auto batteries

and hearing aid batteries are affected by cold, I was curious about

CI batteries.

Wish I had known ahead of time that that weather was going to happen

because it would have been interesting to do a test survey on it.

Have some members actually log the hours they get on their batteries

wearing the processors in that very frigid cold weather.

Just food for thought.

Alice

> Snoopy, I've been a CI wearer for over 7 years now (both Nucleus

and Clarion), and live in very cold/snowy upstate NY, and have never

had my processors affected by the cold.

>

> S

> who wants people to know they CAN wear their processors in cold

weather! I guess it has to be an individual choice,

> but I choose to hear........(I don't really have a choice, I have

to be able to hear, to do my job, and I'd put my CI at more risk

taking it off, putting it back on, taking it off,putting it back on,

when I'm out in the field doing several home visits).

>

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> ----- Original Message -----

[Guest guest]

Well, it's not too late to start this now, Alice!

I can tell you though that my battery life has not changed......

S.

who has Clarion rechargeables

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----- Original Message -----

From: Alice

Good comments. I don't ever even have to think of this living in

New Mexico (extreme heat is more the issue here) but I wondered

about this last very severe cold spell that Northeasterners have

been experiencing. I believe they are saying that this is the

coldest weather in decades so that would mean that it's probably

something that hasn't been tested by CI users. Since auto batteries

and hearing aid batteries are affected by cold, I was curious about

CI batteries.

Wish I had known ahead of time that that weather was going to happen

because it would have been interesting to do a test survey on it.

Have some members actually log the hours they get on their batteries

wearing the processors in that very frigid cold weather.

Just food for thought.

Alice