{"id":309,"date":"2014-07-22T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.valleyaudiology.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2014-07-22T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:17:31","slug":"battery-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/battery-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several states in the U.S. have regulations against using mercury in batteries.\u00a0 Traditional hearing aid batteries have a small amount of mercury and manufacturers are changing their products to comply with the new regulations.<\/p>\n<p>When the mercury is removed from the batteries, the power level drops a little bit.\u00a0 For this reason, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">it is really important to remove the sticker from the back of the battery and wait for a full two minutes before putting the battery into your hearing aid<\/span>. \u00a0This way the chemical reaction in the battery can fully charge and you will maximize your battery life.<\/p>\n<p>The battery manufacturers had recommended this practice previously but we never saw much difference in battery life.\u00a0 However, now it makes a difference with the mercury free batteries and the newer hearing aids.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Hearing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several states in the U.S. have regulations against using mercury in batteries.\u00a0 Traditional hearing aid batteries have a small amount of mercury and manufacturers are changing their products to comply with the new regulations. When the mercury is removed from the batteries, the power level drops a little bit.\u00a0 For this reason, it is really&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","locid":"","rating":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyaudiology.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}