Yeah, with my conservative assumption of 7 cycles of fully charging HAs from near depletion, the Oticon fib is already not very good for their optics. But with your more realistic assumption that most HAs don’t get anywhere near depletion by the end of a long day (as you’ve experienced on your own), that makes the fib even more outlandish.
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Oh, I think you guys might be on to something. I had never thought about it in those terms. I was just approaching it from the point of view that ‘I’ve worn them all day and now need to charge them’ as one charge. But you are correct, they are not dead at this point, so it is not a ‘true’ full charge.
I wear my HAs for an average of about 15 - 16 hours a day, although I don’t do a lot of streaming (usually less than an hour a day, a couple of hours on a heavier day). I gave up tracking my battery usage, but I did track it for a few weeks and I was averaging about 25% battery remaining when I took them out. So even if we assume that my average ‘charge’ is only actually 75% of a charge, I’m getting over 5 full HA charges from the smart charger. Still pretty good.
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@Chirp: My arithmetic says that equivalent to 4 full charges from zero. I think I got the arithmetic right (… didn’t I?).
[Addendum: I’m not so p1$$ed at Oticon for “fibbing”, if that’s the case. Three charges is just being conservative.]
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I was just taking 7 nights x 0.75 charge = 5.25. But either way, it is more than the promised 3. And I agree, I have no problem with them being conservative. I much prefer that to them advertising 3 but not quite living up to it!
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@Chirp: Your numbers are right, of course. I don’t know where mine came from, actually (Well - actually , I do: I took)
[{(3 advertised charges from 0) /(0.75 actually used)} = 4]
@Volusiano is good at 'ryhmutic …
Sorry for my mixup.
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I have to confess that my new Oticon®️ brand SmartCharger has just about completely alleviated my fear of being caught with dead HAs. If I had had my SmartCharger when I had to attend the ER on account of heart arrhythmia, I could have popped my Oticon®️ brand More1s into my nifty SmartCharger™️, put the whole thing into my pocket, and been good to go by the time I hit the hospital.
If I had run low while I was there, a quick charge while snoozing under my cozy hospital bankie would have allowed me to hear and understand Dr DahliWahl while he asked me questions pertaining to my scary episode.
So - that aspect of my anti-rechargeable rationale seems to now be defunct.🫤
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A hidden feature of the SmartCharger is it’s use as a Defibrillator!
Get one implanted and it’s a Pacemaker!
Anything to keep the Spudster’s heart in the right place! Eh?
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Did you read that thread where a SmartCharger owner (I forgot who it was) went on travel with his SmartCharger and it died on him, but luckily he found a local HCP who was willing to rent one out to him temporarily?
An anti-rechargeable die-hard would use this example to try to convert you back again, Jim… 
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I for the one never travel without backups. For all my have to have. Backup aids backup chargers, etc.
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@Volusiano: Aha, MrV! Traveling is another story - I am in Chuck’s @cvkemp camp - I would never pack without 2 chargers … desk and SmartCharger®️.
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Yeah, that’s true. You have time to make plan for travel. Emergency hospital visit, on the other hand, it’s grab-and-go. So it’s true that the Smart Charger would be a very good grab-and-go item that can carry/hold and charge your HAs at the same time → double duty.
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@Volusiano: I’ve been a pretty hard sell since my disastrous ER visit last year when I was obliged to wear my old Unitron North Moxi Fit 800s when my Mores were run down and had just been put into my desk charger … I’ll admit it, but the Oticon™️ brand SmartCharger®️ is pretty slick. Granted, it’s a bit heavy for pocket carry, but that said, it does a creditable job as a “grab-and-go” item. And you’re correct - it provides a very safe and secure place to stow your Oticon™️ brand More1 hearing aids when they wheel you into the X-ray suite. So, yeah - double duty.
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May I ask which battery pack make and model you are using successfully? Another thread mentions that many brands don’t work because the charger load is so small they shut off because they can’t detect it.
@piques46 : stupid minimum characters
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I returned my first SmartCharger for replacement due to an intermittent problem that sees the charge lights flash randomly a couple of times when the flap is opened, only to reveal that the RHS aid is yellow, while the other is plain green. The RHS aid LED will switch to green if one jiggles the aid in its cup, but it seems to deplete henceforth with greater velocity than the LHS device.