AcoSound W-IF-P Bluetooth Hearing Aid User Manual

AcoSound W-IF-P Bluetooth Hearing Aid

Daily Maintenance

Hearing aid is a kind of delicate and sensitive electronic equipment. So it is important to keep clean and dry. Please use soft dry cloth or cotton paper to clean the dust and water off the hearing aid body. If your hearing aid is often used in wet environments or contacted with sweat, please do not wear it at night and leave the battery door open. Then put the hearing aid along with ear mold or domes into the a dry box. Please read the instructions on how to use the drying agent on the drying box. Always remove Zinc-Air batteries before drying your hearing instrument with the help of a drying kit. Please pay attention to the following points for better maintain the hearing aid. Please do not expose the hearing aid in sunshine, get close to a stove or other heat sources. Please do not use the hearing aid when taking a shower, swimming, in rainy or other wet environments(such as sauna, vapour bath, etc.) Please protect your hearing aid carefully and avoid dropping it on the floor or other hard surfaces.  Please get rid of contact with chemicals or powerful cleaning agents. Please do not put the hearing aid near devices at strong electromagnetic field, such asmicrowave ovens, telephones, etc. Please do not enter a X ray room, CT scan room, MRI scanning room, etc., with the hearing aid on.

Medical Rehabilitation Suggestions

Rehabilitation Principle The wear period should be step by step, and it is better in the quiet environment in the beginning, and keep in peace and patient. Personal Plan: The first week: Use the hearing aid at home for 1 ~4 hours daily, try your best to be familiar with and differentiate all kinds of sound. Please exercise and get used to different sounds. The second week: You can walk outside, use the hearing aid in a relatively quiet environment for 4 hours daily. You can feel the different sounds, like bird singing, wind, etc. The third week: Try to go to the public places and streets without so many cars, and try to talk with unfamiliar person. Do not worry if you can not hear clearly in the beginning. Do not increase the volume to hear more clearly in public places, and it is important to exercise and get used to the hearing aid. The fourth week: After previous exercises, please be assured to use the hearing aid. If you want to answer phones with hearing aid, more exercises are needed.

Safety Guidelines

Never allow others to wear your hearing instruments, because they are adjusted for your hearing requirements and may permanently damage another person’s hearing. A slap to your ear while wearing the instrument could be harmful. Avoid wearing your hearing instrument while playing contact sports(e.g rugby, football etc.) Hearing instruments, their parts should be kept out of reach of anyone who might swallow these items or otherwise it can cause injuries. In case a battery or hearing instrument is swallowed, see a doctor immediately. Please do not go to places where coal gas and X ray exists or enter a nuclear magnetic resonance therapy room. Please switch off the hearing aid in mining area or explosive zone. An you shall use the hearing aid after confirming the environment is harmless. Clean your hearing instruments and their parts on a regular basis only with products that are recommended by your hearing care professional. Microorganisms from unclean instruments may cause skin irritations. Discard batteries out of reach of infants, small children, pets or persons with mental incapacity.

Scope of use of products:Hearing compensation for hearing loss patients

• Information on EC authorized representative is:
• Company Name: TransCom International GmbH & Co. KG
• Company Address: Herrengasse 8,90542 Eckental
• Tel: 09126 298 63 95
• Fax: 09126 298 63 96

Troubleshooting Guidance

No Sound

| Switched off| Turn on the hearing aid
Battery running out| Replace the battery or put the battery in the right position
Sound outlet blocked| Cleaning the sound outlet

Sound too light

| Volume is too low| Increase volume
Voltage of battery is too low| Use a new battery
Ear mold is loose| Wear ear mold tightly
Sound outlet partly blocked| Clean the ear mold and sound outlet
Hearing threshold changed| Inquire an audiologist
Earwax piles up| Clean ear canal or go to hospital
Noise| Battery is too low| Use a new battery
Sound not clear| Battery is too low| Use a new battery
Ear mold not suitable| Inquire an audiologist
Symptom| Possible Causes| Remedy
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Howling

| Ear mold is loose| Wear ear mold correctly
Ear mold is too Small| Make a new ear mold
Volume is too high| Decrease volume
Battery runs out quickly| Hearing aid not switched off at night| Turn off the hearing aid at night
Battery exceeds the validity| Check the validity of the batteries

If you still can’t solve the problem, please inquire an audiologist or sales agent. Hearing aid which is broken down should be repaired by professionals. Please do not disassemble and handle it by yourself. Otherwise the hearing aid will not be guaranteed. If problems occur, please contact with your audiologist or sales agent. Regular maintenance by your audiologist can decrease the possibility of breaking down. For the BTE hearing aids which maximum outputs exceed 132 B SPL, high volume output may cause damage to your residual hearing. So please use the hearing aid cautiously under your audiologist’s suggestions or adjust the volume.

Requirements for work, storage and transportation

• Normal working conditions
  • Temperature: -20°C – 40°C
  • Air pressure: 86-106 kPa
  • Humidity: 30%-90%
  • Battery voltage: 1.2V-1.4V Transportation and storage conditions
  • Transportation Condition: Quake proof, Anti Falling, Moisture Proof
  • Storage conditions: Dry, Clean and room temperature

Maintenance

If your hearing aid breaks down, please refer to the “Troubleshooting Guide” in this manual to solve the problems. If the problems still exist, please send the hearing aid to the maintenance center of AcoSound. Please describe the problems in detail when sending the hearing aid. And please write downyour address, telephone number, email address, which help us contact with you and offer better services. Hearing aid is a kind of fragile electronic product. Please properly pack the hearing aid and you can also ask the post office or EXPRESS courier to pack it for you.The address of AcoSound Maintenance center is below: Add: Room 401, No.2 Building, No.1390 Cangxing Street, Yuhang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311100,China

• Tel: +86(0)571 8102 1869
• Fax: +86(0)571 8102 1869
• Email: aco@acosound.net

Disclaimer

Because our products are updating continuously, we will not give you notice if there is a change on design or specification. All the materials are checked carefully, so we will not take any responsibility if there are any printer error; there may be some differences between printed material and material objects; All the data in grams is only for reference. Concrete data is still based on technical details.

Any Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interterence that may cause undesired operation. Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by  turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:  Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver isconnected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. This equipment complies with FCC radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. ID: DAWOI WAIF.P

Hangzhou AcoSound Technology Co.,Ltd Production Base: Hangzhou AcoSound Technology Co., Ltd Add: Room 401, No.2 Building, No.1390 Cangxing Street, Yuhang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311100, China

• Email: aco@acosound.com
• Tel: +86(0)571 81021869
• Website: www.acosound.net
• Fax: +86(0)571 81021869

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