So I tried removing the receivers today. Before that I inspected the two holes nearby. No pin visible but something what could be filter for the microphones.
So I tried to hold the receiver at the HA insertion with my nails to pull it out. Didn’t succeed!
Pulled harder, didn’t succeed, nail broke.
So I tried using a sharp thin knife instead of my nail and that initially did not succeed either. Wasn’t sure about cutting some thin wires in this way so stopped that.
Than I tried to pull the wire instead. My experience now don’t do that either. In my case the wire’s life ended. Something I felt broke.
So again with the knife. And this time I was lucky, could wring the receiver out.
So I wonder Phonak why was the pin version to remove the receiver not good enough. I don’t understand. But maybe the wire has to break as why else would you try to remove the receiver if it still functions?
Well in my case I wanted to try out different moulds… and I could change those things with the pin in my other Phonak HA’s ver easy all the time.
Anyhow at the cost of a few $ it seems possible to get the receivers out. The other side I could manage with the learned knife trick. Didn’t got it out by pulling either. To me it seems as if the black ring, probably for tight fitting, makes the exchange dificult. And that’s why the pins in the previous versions weren’t good enough anymore.
Maybe one of the pro’ s can give better advice how to change the receiver SDS6 in an easy way.
Picture of the inside connection on the HA and one of the thinned unlucky SDS connection.
