Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I could find.

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Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I could find.

Hi,
Not for hearing aid but my experience is RayoVac is always not as good
as Duracell or Energizer. I know our local hospitals all use Duracell.

On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:37:43 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I could find.

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.

On 8/17/2014 7:26 PM, Oren wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.

--
..
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:25:03 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

On 8/17/2014 7:26 PM, Oren wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.

10% of doctors and lawyers graduated at the bottom of their class.

If you luck out you may find an honest ENT doctor, not worried about
promotions.

By chance, my ENT is the same as my neighbor's. We both like him but
I never asked for their advice ahead of my visit to the ENT.

Plus. I wasn't asking about batteries.

On 08/17/2014 05:25 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/17/2014 7:26 PM, Oren wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.


Still laughing.

On 8/18/2014 7:07 PM, Todd wrote:
On 08/17/2014 05:25 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/17/2014 7:26 PM, Oren wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.


Still laughing.

I've been in the doctor's waiting room when there were more salesmen
than patients.

Parking lot's always full and I suggested to one that the salesmen
should be bussed in to make room for patients' parking.

He was not amused.

On 08/18/2014 04:32 PM, Frank wrote:

I've been in the doctor's waiting room when there were more salesmen
than patients.

Were they hot chicks by any chance?

On 08/18/14 07:32 pm, Frank wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.


Still laughing.

I've been in the doctor's waiting room when there were more salesmen
than patients.

Parking lot's always full and I suggested to one that the salesmen
should be bussed in to make room for patients' parking.

He was not amused.

A few decades ago around Christmas time I was a temporary mail carrier.
One of the premises on my round was a two-doctor medical practice. You
should have seen the amount of advertising material that I had to
deliver to them -- in duplicate, of course.

Perce

On 08/18/2014 06:32 PM, Frank wrote:

[snip]

I've been in the doctor's waiting room when there were more salesmen
than patients.

Parking lot's always full and I suggested to one that the salesmen
should be bussed in to make room for patients' parking.

He was not amused.

I can remember waiting 2 hours to see a doctor. Drug salesmen never
waited more than about 5 minutes.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us

"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your Deity made
you in his own image, I reply that he must have been very ugly." [Victor
Hugo]

On 8/18/2014 7:07 PM, Todd wrote:
On 08/17/2014 05:25 PM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 8/17/2014 7:26 PM, Oren wrote:

You might ask your family ENT doctor what he/she suggests.


82% of all physicians recommend the brand that
gives the best promos and free crap to the
doctors. Stethoscopes and lighted pens with
brand advertising are desirable.


Still laughing.
My pleasure. And to save bandwidth (I know, it's
really me!):

Yes, I can easily imagine endless bags of junk mail
to doctors.

I went to a dentist one time, I'd had to park on the
grass. He said "we have to park at the far end of the
complex to leave space for our customers to park here".
Of course, the people at the far end parked here, I'd
guess. Just like trap and release Racoons or Mexicans.


Good idea to shuttle bus the salesmen in. And after the
patient hours so the doc can have a snort or two of
some thing and then catch a doctor bus (Mercedes bus)
home with a blood alcohol level.

--
..
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

On 08/17/14 06:37 pm, wrote:

Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I could find.

I buy my hearing-aid batteries at Costco -- $10 or less for 40. All
sizes the same price, I think. They are Costco branded, but I think they
might be Ray-o-Vac. My #13 batteries last about 12-14 days.

Perce

On 8/17/2014 6:37 PM, wrote:
Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries
to buy, wife has heard Eveready are not too good,
RayoVac may be better. I'm curious if any actual
data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that
I could find.

For me, I get about eight days out of either of those
brands. And about two weeks out of
https://www.ecogold.com/

Duracell, the shape of the battery doesn't make contact
in my hearing aids, they don't work dependably.

Please do not buy far in advance. The batteries go
dead in a year or so (I've not really tested this).

I'd love to have four years batteries in hand in case
I lose my job, but they go dead.

--
..
Christopher A. Young
Learn about Jesus
www.lds.org
..

" wrote in
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Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has
heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious
if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I
could find.



I have not noticed any real difference from brand to brand, with all of
them lasting roughly the same length of time for the same hearing aid at
the same settings..

I've been wearing hearing aids for 47 years. Battery sizes used have been
675, 13, and (briefly) 312. Currently I'm wearing a pair of Siemens Nitro,
which use 675.

What is far more important for battery life than brand is how much power
the hearing aid draws versus the size of the battery used. But that's a
design issue and is affected by the settings of the hearing aid.

Your hearing aid provider should give you a trial period of a couple of
weeks. Battery life will be revealed during that trial period.

The worst instance for me was a pair of Widex I-forget-whats I recently
tried that took 312s. My hearing-loss meant that the Widexes needed to be
boosted to nearly their maximum output. Battery life was FIVE DAYS. The
312s were simply too small for the power needed.

My surrent Siemens get about three weeks out of their 675s -- regardless of
brand. That's the longest of any hearing aid I've ever had.

--
Tegger

Tegger wrote in
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" wrote in
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Trying to decide what brand of hearing aid batteries to buy, wife has
heard Eveready are not too good, RayoVac may be better. I'm curious
if any actual data out there. Consumer Reports has nothing that I
could find.



I have not noticed any real difference from brand to brand, with all
of them lasting roughly the same length of time for the same hearing
aid at the same settings..




It happens that I had to see my hearing-aid specialitst today. I asked her
about battery life between brands. She said she has not noticed any
significant difference from brand to brand. However, she has had reports
from some clients that Energizers tend to have a somewhat shorter life than
other brands, but these are purely anecdotal reports.

My personal preference is for Duracell, since they have a very long pull-
tab on the oxygen-seal that greatly reduces the risk of dropping the
battery while removing the oxygen-seal. This is important when handling
tiny sizes like 13 and 312. Sometimes it is possible to use that pull-tab
to place the battery in its compartment prior to removal of the seal. That
also makes handling easier, especially if your hands are arthritic.

--
Tegger

Well, I guess the answer to my ooriginal posting is that there is no strong opinion on Eveready vs Rayovaac.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:15:38 -0700,
wrote:

Well, I guess the answer to my ooriginal posting is that there is no
strong opinion on Eveready vs Rayovaac.


Not sure what year, but we had a medical product which required C, or AA
batteries, or was that AAA? sorry can't remember which. We found the
longest lasting was Ray-O-vac, but they had a 'leakage'problem that bit us
every now and then. The second was Everaedy, lasting [from memory] around
80 to 85% as long as ray-ovac. And Duracell was a major joke! cost as much
as everready, but lasted about half as long.

I'm sure by now these companies have solved their ills, sorted out their
battery chemistry and packaging, and are all equal now.

" wrote in
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Well, I guess the answer to my ooriginal posting is that there is no
strong opinion on Eveready vs Rayovaac.



Did you read /any/ of my posts?

There is no detectable difference in hearing-aid battery life from brand to
brand, so buy whichever is
1) on sale,
2) easist to find,
3) has the most convenient oxygen-seal pull-tab.

Personally, I prefer Duracell on account of their long pull-tab making
their nbatteries the most convenient and easiest to handle.

--
Tegger