Battery Life Counseling
by Barry A. Freeman, Ph.D. Battery Life Counseling – With Consideration of Rechargeable Batteries The recent series of articles on batteries and battery life in Wayne’s World brings to light one of the least understood and, perhaps, most important patient counseling and management issues faced today by those dispensing and wearers of hearing…
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Receiver, Speaker, Output Transducer, or Driver?
Which is it? Take your pick? This is a question that has been asked of me many times over the years. Is the component that converts the hearing aid amplified signal back to an acoustic signal properly called a receiver, speaker, loudspeaker, output transducer, driver, or even other names (Figure 1)? Or, can each of…
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