Hearing aids, like all complex electronic equipment, require a little bit of tender loving care in order to work reliably. You can’t simply use them over and over again without administering routine maintenance and expect them to perform as smoothly as they did on day one.

This includes keeping them dry and periodically sanitizing them. It also includes replacing the tubes when they get old and cracked and the wax guards whenever they become plugged and you need new ones.

It’s not just the hearing aids themselves that need care and attention from time to time. Hearing aid batteries also have a limited lifespan that you can impact through storage. Keep them somewhere cool and dry and protect them from humidity, and don’t remove the tabs till you are ready to use them, and they’ll last longer.

You can improve your processes by keeping a hearing aid battery tester on hand. While they’re not specifically used for hearing aid maintenance, adding one to your collection of hearing aid accessories will benefit you surprisingly well.

1.Never play the guessing game again

Hearing aid batteries are small and difficult to manipulate, and it can be tempting to pop one in the hearing aid in question to see if it works or not. However, to do so, you’ll need to remove the tab and insert it in the hearing aid. If the hearing aid squeals or buzzes faintly, the battery is probably good.

But once you do that, the battery’s lifespan is on a countdown. Using a battery tester will help prevent you from needing to do things the old-fashioned way or employing the “guessing game.”

Use a tester and you won’t need to fumble with countless little hearing aid batteries to put them one by one into a hearing aid. You can check in mere moments if the batteries are still viable, and some testers even give you a subjective assessment of how much life is left in the battery.

2.Be better prepared

Hearing aids are not like game consoles and other recreational devices that take batteries. They’re vital pieces of equipment that you use on the day-to-day and on which you rely to be able to hear and interact with the world around you.

In other words, you don’t just wait for the batteries to die and then shoulder the minor inconvenience until you can head out to the store to pick up another pack of batteries. Instead, you keep a stockpile of spares on hand for when your hearing aids die on you, unexpectedly.

Despite the fact that hearing aid batteries have decent lifespans when stored properly, there are a lot of factors that affect their longevity. Since you can’t be fully sure if batteries are viable just by looking at them, a tester can make your life a little easier and help you be better prepared.

3.Don’t waste good batteries

Have you ever been tempted to throw out an entire pack of old batteries just because they’ve been around so long you’ve assumed they’re going to be dead when you open them? Those little packs of batteries are not cheap, and it’s better to be sure than to guess and throw away good batteries.

A little piece of equipment as simple and inexpensive as a hearing aid battery tester can help prevent you from throwing away batteries that are still viable, just by making it easier to be sure which ones are good and which ones are.

4.Save money

What does this all boil down to? Well, it boils down to you have a set of hearing aid batteries when you need them, but it also means you’ll save money.

That’s because a tester will help you streamline checking and using your batteries and prevent you from throwing away good ones. That means you’ll be sure of which batteries work as well as which ones don’t and it also means you won’t need to buy a new pack when you still have a working set on the shelf.

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