Siemens Motion BTE User manual

Motion BTE
User Guide

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Introduction
Dear customer,
Congratulations! You have selected a hearing instrument
from Siemens. This hearing instrument was individually
designed for your hearing impairment and is fitted
specially to your personal hearing profile.
These instructions, together with guidance from your
Hearing Care Professional, will help you understand how
your new hearing instrument works.
If you have any further questions, please contact your
Hearing Care Professional.
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Your Motion hearing instrument 6
-Motion S
-Motion M VC
-Motion M
-Motion MX
-Motion P
Intended use 8
General notes on safety 9
Handling of standard and rechargeable batteries 12
-Low battery indicator
-Inserting the battery
-Removing the battery
-Battery compartment lock
Inserting and removing your hearing instrument 16
-Inserting your hearing instrument
-Removing your hearing instrument
Turning your hearing instrument on and off 17
-Via battery compartment:
-Via push button
-Via remote control
-Power-on delay
Changing the hearing program 18
-Via push button
-Via remote control
Contents
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Changing the volume 19
-Via volume control
-Via remote control
Audio input 20
-Attaching the audio shoe:
-Removing the audio shoe:
Telephoning 22
e2e wireless 2.0 24
Maintenance and care 25
Accessories 26
-Charger
-Remote control
-Tek wireless enhancement
Troubleshooting tips 29
Technical information 30
Disposal information 32
Your hearing instrument configuration 33
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3Your Motion hearing instrument
Motion M/ DM
optional with S-LifeTube
(battery type: 13)
Motion S
optional with LifeTube
(battery type: 13)
Features:
① Earhook
② Battery compartment
③ Charging contacts
④ Microphone openings
⑤ Audio input
⑥ Volume control
①
②
③
④
⑦
⑨
①
②
③
⑨
④
⑤
⑦
⑧
⑦ Program button
⑧ Cover for program-
ming socket
⑨ Typeplate
red = right hearing
instrument
blue = left hearing
instrument
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Your Motion hearing instrument
Motion M VC/ DM VC
optional with S-LifeTube
(battery type: 13)
Motion P/ DP
(battery type: 13)
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②
⑤
⑧
⑥
④
⑨
③
①
②
③
④
⑥
⑦
⑤
⑧
⑨
Features:
① Earhook
② Battery compartment
③ Charging contacts
④ Microphone openings
⑤ Audio input
⑥ Volume control
⑦ Program button
⑧ Cover for program-
ming socket
⑨ Typeplate
red = right hearing
instrument
blue = left hearing
instrument
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4Intended use
Hearing instruments are intended to improve the hearing
of hearing impaired persons. Diagnosis and prescription
of a hearing instrument must be performed by hearing
health specialists, e.g. ENT doctors, audiologists or acou-
sticians.
Read and follow the instructions of this user guide to
avoid injuries or damage to the hearing instruments.
Symbols:
Be aware of information marked with the warning sym-
bol WARNING, CAUTION or NOTICE!
WARNING points out a situation that could
lead to serious injuries,
CAUTION indicates a situation that could
lead to minor and moderate injuries.
NOTICE NOTICE indicates possible property
damage.
Advice and tips on how to handle your
hearing instruments better.
Instruction. Indicates that something has
to be done.
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General notes on safety
NOTICE
Your hearing instruments are sensitive to extreme heat,
high humidity, strong magnetic fields (> 0.1T), X-rays and
mechanical stress.
Do not expose your hearing instruments to extreme
temperature or high humidity.
Do not leave them in direct sunlight.
Do not wear your hearing instruments in the shower or
when you apply make-up, perfume, aftershave, hair-
spray or suntan lotion.
Do not wear your hearing instruments when you are
exposed to short-waves, a strong magnetic field, a high
frequency field or X-rays.
Do not place your hearing instruments in a microwave
oven.
WARNING
Choking hazard posed by small parts.
Keep hearing instruments, batteries and accessories
out of children‘s reach.
If swallowed consult a physician or hospital immedi-
ately.
This hearing instrument is not designed for children
under the age of 36 months or mentally disabled per-
sons. For suitable products please refer to your Hearing
Care Professional.
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5General notes on safety
WARNING
Hazard of explosion!
Do not use your hearing instruments in areas where
there is a danger of explosions (e.g. mining).
NOTICE
Leaking batteries damage the hearing instruments.
Remove batteries when the hearing instruments are
not in use for a prolonged period of time.
Turn your hearing instruments off when not in use to
preserve the battery.
In some countries restrictions for the usage of wireless
equipment exist.
Refer to local authorities for further information.
Siemens offers special hearing instruments for the fit-
ting of infants and small children.
Ask your Hearing Care Professional for further infor-
mation.
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General notes on safety
CAUTION
Risk of injury caused by incorrect use of LifeTip.
Always wear the LifeTube with the LifeTip.
Make sure that the LifeTip is completely attached to the
LifeTip adapter.
Change the LifeTube or LifeTip when they are cracked.
Put the LifeTube with the LifeTip carefully and not too
deep into the ear.
If the LifeTip remains in the ear, have it removed by a
medical professional.
Use the LifeTube and LifeTip only in the way described
in this user guide.
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Handling of standard and rechargeable batteries
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Remove the tab on your
batteries only when you
are ready to use them.
The positive (+) side of the batteries is always the
smooth side.
Always keep spare batteries with you.
Low battery indicator
Your Hearing Care Professional can activate an acoustic
signal to inform you when the battery is nearly empty.
If you hear an acoustic signal or experience low amplifica-
tion power, replace the battery.
original size
Use standard batteries or rechargeable
batteries in your hearing instruments.
Always use the right size batteries.
Charge the rechargeable batteries before
first use.
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Handling of standard and rechargeable batteries 6
Inserting the battery
Open the battery compartment
completely using your fingernail as
shown in the illustration.
Insert the proper size battery so that
the "+" symbol on the battery aligns
with the "+" marked on the battery
compartment.
Close the battery compartment by
gently pressing the bottom of the door
upward with your finger tip.
Do not force the door shut. If it does not
close easily, check to see if the battery
was inserted properly.
When the battery door is completely
closed, your hearing instrument is ready
for use.
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Handling of standard and rechargeable batteries
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Removing the battery
Open the battery compartment com-
pletely.
Normally the battery drops out when
the compartment is completely open.
If the battery does not come out,
lightly tap the instrument or push the
battery out with a pencil as shown.
Batteries contain harmful substances that pollute the
environment.
Do not throw used batteries into household trash.
Dispose batteries according to national regulations
or return them to your Hearing Care Professional.
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Handling of standard and rechargeable batteries
Battery compartment lock
Your hearing instruments are equipped with a battery
compartment lock. This prevents the unintentional remo-
val of the batteries from their compartment.
Lock
Open the battery compartment to the first stop.
Push the small slide to the right.
The battery compartment can now only be opened up to
the first stop.
Unlock
Open the battery compartment to the first stop.
Push the small slide to the left.
The battery compartment can now be opened
completely.
Ask your Hearing Care Professional if you need assistance.
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7Inserting and removing your hearing instrument
Inserting your hearing instrument
Turn your hearing instrument off.
Hold the earmold /LifeTip between
your thumb and index finger and
insert it carefully into the ear canal.
You may find it helpful to pull your
ear slightly upward or to the back.
Place your hearing instrument be-
hind your ear.
Turn your hearing instrument on.
Removing your hearing instrument
Hold the earmold /LifeTube bet-
ween your thumb and index finger
and carefully pull it out.
You may find it helpful to lightly
push your ear from the back.
Ask your Hearing Care Professional to apply colored
typeplates for side recognition. If the typeplate of your
hearing instrument is red, the hearing instrument is
intended for the right ear. If the typeplate is blue, the
hearing instrument is for the left ear.
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Turning your hearing instrument
on and off 8
Via battery compartment:
Fully close the battery compartment to turn the hea-
ring instrument on.
Press the battery compartment downward to the first
stop to turn the hearing instrument off.
Via push button
Press the push button for about 2 seconds to turn the
hearing instrument to stand-by.
Press the push button for about 2 seconds to turn the
hearing instrument back on.
Via remote control
(not for Motion 100 series)
Refer to the remote control user guide.
Power-on delay
Your hearing instrument is equipped with a "power-on
delay" feature which can be activated by your Hearing
Care Professional. This allows you to turn the hearing
instrument on with an automatic delay of 6, 12 or 18
seconds, so that you may insert the hearing instrument
into your ear without experiencing unpleasant feedback
(whistling).
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Changing the hearing program
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Via push button
Your hearing instruments offer up to 5
hearing programs for specific listening envi-
ronments.
Each time you press the program button,
your hearing instruments switch to the next
program, confirming each change with an
acoustic signal.
Example
Turn your hearing instruments on.
It is automatically in program 1. You want to change to
program 2.
Press the program button once.
You hear the acoustic signal for program 2.
You are now in program 2.
Via remote control
(not for Motion 100 series)
Refer to the remote control user guide.
Your Hearing Care Professional can write down the per-
sonal program configuration of your hearing instrument
on page 33.Your Hearing Care Professional can activate
or deactivate the acoustic signals in your hearing instru-
ments.
Press the program button shortly to change the
program. Pressing the program button too long will
switch off the hearing instruments.
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Changing the volume 10
The volume of your hearing instruments is controlled au-
tomatically and there is no need to manually adjust it.
Via volume control
Should you prefer manual volume control, your Hearing
Care Professional can program the hearing instrument for
manual adjustment.
Rotate the volume control with
your index finger to select the
desired listening volume.
Via remote control
(not for Motion 100 series)
Refer to the remote control user guide.
louder
softer
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11 Audio input
Your hearing instrument is equipped with an audio input.
Together with an audio shoe it enables the connection
between the hearing instrument and e.g. an FM system,
tape recorder, television or an infrared device. This way
the sound is coming directly from the sound source. That
can be useful for adults in difficult listening situations and
for children in classrooms.
With the audio shoe L5 attached, the battery compart-
ment switch is disabled and the hearing system can only
be switched off via push button or remote control.
With the audio shoe F5 attached, the battery compart-
ment switch can still be used for the ON/OFF
function.
NOTICE
Use only the F5 or L5 audio shoes (labelled inside the
audio shoe). They are designed exclusively for the your
hearing instruments.
WARNING
Risk of injuries caused by electric shock!
Connect audio input only to device conform to
IEC 60065. (IEC-Norm for audio, video and other elec-
tronic devices.)
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