I have a simple question. I have the Phonak M50R, and I just noticed the charging ports are color coded. As a matter of habit I have been putting them in correctly, right on the right anyway, and wondered what would happen if they were put in opposite by mistake.
I am new to this forum, but have been devouring previous posts for the last few days and learned a lot!
Thanks
Bob
From what I have read getting the aids in the correct spot is very important. Seems I remember a member having to send their aids in for repair or replacement from putting them in the charger wrong.
Doesn’t make a bit of differance…NONE.
The hearing aids can be swapped via programming - right for left, the color code tabs can be swapped, and the receivers can be swapped… the sockets in the charger are the same… A right and left socket would require left and right housings…that drives up expense…people would put them in wrong and break things which would drive up expense. NOPE…swap all you like.
This is the case for Phonak Marvels and for Resound Quattro.
The only way to cause damage is to put them in the charger physically 180 degrees out…rotated backwards…NOT swapping right for left
Thanks, that’s what I was hoping to hear. I never noticed the color circles in the charger because I set it up in the bedroom and put the aids in with only a night light on.
Yep…bet you that this is common among us.
My wife put the right in the left and the left in the right several times.
They charged because she had the charging pins correct even though they were in the opposite ports.
If you put the pins opposite they do not charge and they show red.
The charging pins are going to be oriented correctly… HOW would you get them backwards. There are no right hearing aids and left hearing aids in the BTE/RIC categories. Two of say…the M90R are sent to your audiologist. The audiologist randomly picks which one is right…he or she sticks the indicator on there and same for the left.
Further more BOTH hearing aids orient in the same plane…so HOW would you get the pins backwards???
I tried inserting mine 180 degrees backwards and they WILL slide into the charger. But of course nothing will happen because there are no charging pins to connect backwards. You would just end up with an uncharged battery in the morning. 
OH Hell!!! But dang, Gary…you were determined!!!
Yes you can put them in backwards they just don’t charge.
I’ll support other contributors and say, placing the aids in the “wrong” slot makes no difference to the charging. They still charge and they suffer no harm.
I told Phonak I had swapped them from one charging slot to the other, as a test when trying to find out why one would not charge. Phonak Tech people told me how to cure the charging problem (but that is a different story - some readers may know the “12-second trick”). Anyway, Phonak Tech people did not pass any adverse comment about me swapping the aids between slots, so I deduce it does no harm.
As for inserting them back-to-front within their slots - I can’t comment.