Hands inserting a new battery into a hearing aid.

Change a Hearing Aid Battery

How to Change a Hearing Aid Battery – Soundwave Hearing Care

For this video, we’re going to show you how to change a battery in a hearing aid.

Now there are four different sizes of batteries for hearing aids. They are universal, so anywhere you go, you should be able to find the correct battery size for your device.

So, the first one here is a size 10 or yellow in colour. It is the smallest hearing aid battery on the market. The next size up is a size 312, or brown in colour, and then we go to a size 13, which is orange, and 675, which is blue and, as you can see, a much larger hearing aid.

The smaller the hearing aid, the more likely you are to be on the left side. As we get into more power levels, you’ll most likely be towards the right side.

Soundwave hearing aid batteries type 10, 312, 13, 675

So, for this particular hearing aid, it takes a size 312 or a brown battery.

So, what you’re going to do is you’re going to take a battery out of the case or package and what you may see is that there is a sticker in the corresponding battery colour.

Since this is a size 312, we know it will be brown. What you’re going to do is remove that sticker from the hearing aid.

Puretone Soni hearing aid with receiver unit detached

New hearing aid battery with brown tab in palm

There are little holes at the bottom, which allow air to go inside the battery. You’re then going to just let it breathe for a moment or two and take your hearing aid.

Now, depending on your hearing aid, there typically is a little bit of a lip or ridge at the bottom. To open it, you’re going to pull on the ridge. Your hearing aid battery door is now open.

On this particular hearing aid, the battery door is kind of like a cup. On one side it’s relatively open, and on the other side it is more closed.

To put the battery into the hearing aid, you’re going to put the flat side facing up in the cup, so on this side it’s a flat backside, and then there is a rounded side, which you may be able to see there.

You’re going to put the flat side facing up in the cup. As you’ll see, we can now close it with little to no resistance. Now the hearing aid will power on. If you have the battery in incorrectly, you’re more likely to feel resistance. Don’t force it. Check the battery placement and try again.

Hands connecting a tube to a hearing aid

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