Have you looked for a place on the hearing aid to plug in a cable?
Yes, I have looked. I see no external connectors, but when the battery case is open I can see copper so can only assume the cable, be it the orange or purple, will connect some how. I will know more when I get the cables. For sure, I’ll be documenting all of this to make it easier on the next guy.
Copper? You should see 4 very small pins. Look at it with a magnifying glass. Or with a macro camera. It will look like a very tiny male version of the following macro picture of the female version. Also there are red dots on each version for alignment.
Bingo! Now try finding the alignment/orientation markers on the hearing aids/HAs. Direct sunlight may help. The cable usually has a red dot that needs to align with a red dot on the hearing aids so that pins 1-4 on the cable align with pins 1-4 on the HA.
Not sure, but I see a kind of smily mouth on the bottom of the 4 prongs. You can see the same when you click on the photo. There’s a white arrow of sorts midway between the mouth and the 2 prongs closest to the mouth.
I got my purple cables today. The literature says "Starkey Audibel Hearing Aid Hi Pro Left Programming Cable Sonion P/N: 4402-3018350 (272549585983). Model CS 44 HiPro Cable; Name: 659/P14/2000 Blue MiniDIN-556 Blue-Straight-; Log No 52265282; Prod :17/13(WW/YY)
I am able to plug them directly into the Wi HA’s directly. Seems I made a mistake and do NOT need the Orange Flex things. Oh, well, an opportunity to open an account on Ebay and sell something.
Wondering if there’s a way to post a file on this WEB site to make it easier on people trying to do the same thing. Too difficult to search through all these postings for all this information. Easier if it was in one spot, in one file, for one kind of hearing aid. Something like that.
Look at the cable guide, column RIC 312.
Yes, there is. Just collect all of your salient points into a document, convert that to an image or a PDF file, store that somewhere on the Internet available 24-7, and display the image here. Like this…
Sorry, picture got lost.
Or start a new thread with just that one image. Then you and the other 2 people in the world who are trying to self program this specific model Starkey legacy hearing aid can discuss it to your heart’s content.
You seem easily distracted by things like this and drift off topic. More on topic, Did you reach any conclusions about alignment. When you plug the cable into your HA how do you know that pins 1-4 of the cable are aligned with pins 1-4 on the HA?
Eatra credit if you can determine whether the pinout (pins 1-4) of the purple cable and the pinout (pins 1-4) of the standard CS44 cable are identical. The pinout of a standard CS44 cable is displayed earlier in this thread. So you would only need to test continuity on pins 1-4 on the purple cable.
Extra credit if you can determine whether a standard CS44 cable with it’s curved head can fit into the HA with the proper alignment. From your picture it can only fit one way with the cable pointing towards the battery door. I don’t know if this position will achieve the proper alignment for pins 1-4?
On the standard CS44 cable (see images below) there is a red dot for visual alignment and there is also a slot for physical alignment making the plug only able to fit one way.
I am easily distracted. I’m a retired guy whom no one listens to. This is my opportunity to extemporize. So as to not upset you, I’ll try to stay more to the point. Your time is probably more valuable.
The alignment issue was solved by just trying to plug the Purple Cables to the HA. Only seems to work one way. I think the red dot on the cable lines up with the triangle on the HA. I doubt any other cable would work as there was just enough room with the battery door open to align the cable with the HA. I’m not going to touch the continuity thing. Just not worth it. Cable aligns, that’s really all I need.
As for documenting this, I will do so. I gather from your comments that there is no way to publish and keep a paper on this forum. I would think someone who wants to self program other Starkeys might benefit as well. As I mentioned before just too hard to wade through past posts for all the info needed.
If this is the “non-straight” cable, it would never work as the HA receptacle is too recessed and there is too little room to accommodate the head of the cable.
Well there’s not much to document. The only thing we discovered is that Starkey cables work with Starkey HAs. Now there’s a surprise 
I suspect that the pinout of a Starkey cable is probably identical to a CS44 cable pinout. But that doesn’t help if you don’t have enough clearance to plug the CS44 cable into a Starkey HA. Doesn’t help at all!
What might work (for Starkey HAs that use flexstrips) is a CS44 cable plugged into a flexstrip, and then the flexstrip plugged into a Starkey HA. But we didn’t prove that??
Good luck with your fitting. Searching these forums for audiologyonline might provide help in the form of free training.