Siemens Nitro BTE User manual

Nitro BTE
User Guide

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Content
Content
Your Nitro hearing instrument 4
Intended use 5
General notes on safety 6
Handling batteries 9
Inserting and removing your hearing instrument 12
Turning your hearing instrument on and off 13
Changing the hearing program 15
Changing the volume 16
Audio input 17
Telephoning 19
e2e wireless 2.0 21
Maintenance and care 22
Accessories 23
Troubleshooting tips 25
Technical information 26
Disposal information 28
Your hearing instrument configuration 29

Introduction
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Dear customer,
Congratulations! You have selected a hearing instrument
from Siemens. This hearing instrument was individually
designed for your hearing impairment and is fitted spe-
cially 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 further questions, please contact your Hearing
Care Professional.
Introduction

Your Nitro hearing instrument
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Nitro SP
(battery type: 675)
① Earhook
② Microphone openings
③ Volume control with
on/off function
④ LED
⑤ Cover for program-
ming socket
⑥ Program button with on/off
function
⑦ Audio input
⑧ Battery compartment
⑨ Typeplates
red = right hearing instru-
ment
blue = left hearing instrument
Your Nitro hearing instrument

Intended use
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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
acousticians.
Read and follow the instructions of this user guide to
avoid injuries and to protect the hearing instruments from
damage.
Symbols:
Be aware of information marked with the warning symbol
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 device
better.
Instruction. Indicates that something has to be
done.
Indicates an option that not every hearing
instrument has. Ask your Hearing Care Profes-
sional to check off the relevant information.
Intended use

General notes on safety
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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 them in the shower or when you
apply make-up, perfume, aftershave, hairspray
or suntan lotion.
Do not wear your hearing instruments when
you are exposed to short-waves, a strong mag-
netic field, a high frequency field or X-rays.
Do not place your hearing instruments in a
microwave oven.
General notes on safety

General notes on safety
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WARNING
Choking hazard posed by small parts.
If infants, small children or mentally disabled
persons need to wear hearing instruments
ensure adequate supervision.
Check the integrity of the hearing instruments
regularly.
Ensure that your child does not detach the hear-
ing instrument from the earmold.
Consult your Hearing Care Professional if the
housing is deformed.
Keep the battery compartment locked. Verify
the proper function of the locking mechanism.
Keep batteries and accessories out of children's
reach.
If swallowed consult a physician or a hospital
immediately.
In some countries restrictions for the usage of
wireless equipment exist.
Refer to local authorities for further informa-
tion.

General notes on safety
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NOTICE
Batteries contain harmful substances that pollute
the environment.
Do not throw used batteries into household
trash.
Dispose batteries according to national regu-
lations or return them to your Hearing Care
Professional.
NOTICE
Leaking batteries damage the hearing instruments.
Turn the hearing instruments off when not in
use to preserve the battery.
Remove batteries when the instruments are not
in use for a prolonged period of time.
WARNING
Hazard of explosion in explosive atmospheres!
Do not use your hearing instruments in areas
where there is a danger of explosions
(e.g. mining area).

Handling batteries
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Always use the right size batteries.
Remove the tab on your batteries
only when you are ready to use
them.
The positive (+) side of the batter-
ies is always the smooth side.
Always keep spare batteries with
you.
original size
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.
Handling batteries

Handling batteries
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Inserting the battery
Open the battery compartment com-
pletely using your fingernail as shown in
the illustration.
Insert the proper size battery.
Make sure that the "+" symbol on the
battery points up as shown in the
picture.
Close the battery compartment.
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.

Handling 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 use the magnet
stick available as accessory to remove the battery.

Inserting and removing your hearing instrument
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Ask your Hearing Care Professional to apply
colored typeplates for side recognition. If the
typeplate of your hearing instrument is in red, the
hearing instrument is intended for the right ear. If
the typeplate is in blue, the hearing instrument is
for the left ear.
Inserting your hearing instrument
Turn your hearing instrument off.
Hold the earmold 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 behind your ear.
Turn your hearing instrument on.
Removing your hearing instrument
Hold the earmold between your
thumb and index finger and
carefully pull it out.
You may find it helpful to lightly
push your ear from the back.
Inserting and removing your
hearing instrument

Inserting and removing your hearing instrument
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Via battery compartment
Close the battery compartment completely to turn the
hearing instrument on.
Open the battery compartment downward to the first
stop to turn the hearing instrument off.
Via program button
Press the program button for about 2 seconds to turn
the hearing instrument to stand-by.
Press the program button for about 2 seconds to turn
the hearing instrument back on.
Via volume control
Rotate the volume control upwards to turn the hearing
instrument on.
Rotate the volume control completely down to turn the
hearing instrument off.
Via remote control
Refer to the remote control user guide.
Power-on delay
Your hearing instrument is equipped with a "power-on de-
lay" feature which can be activated by your Hearing Care
Professional. This allows you to turn the hearing instru-
ment on with an automatic delay of 6/12/18 seconds, so
that you may insert the hearing instrument into your ear
without experiencing unpleasant feedback (whistling).
Turning your hearing instrument
on and off

Inserting and removing your hearing instrument
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Checking the hearing instrument's performance
The LED shows whether the hearing instruments work
properly.
The LED shines constantly.
The hearing instruments are switched on and
sufficient battery power is available.
The LED ist off.
The hearing instruments are switched off or
the battery must be replaced.
To check if sufficient battery power is available
use a battery tester or place the switched-on
hearing instruments in your closed hand and
listen if it responds with feedback whistling.
Check the instrument sound regularly with a
stethoclip, particularly if your child is not able to
express verbally if something is wrong with the
hearing instruments.

Changing the hearing program
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Via program button
Your hearing instruments offer up to
5 hearing programs for specific listening
environments.
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.
Press the program button shortly to change the
program. Pressing the program button too long
will switch off the hearing instruments.
Via remote control
Refer to the remote control user guide.
Your Hearing Care Professional can write down the per-
sonal program configuration of your hearing instrument.
See the table on last page.
Your Hearing Care Professional can activate or deactivate
the acoustic signals in your hearing instruments.
Changing the hearing program

Changing the volume
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The volume of your hearing instruments is controlled
automatically and there is no need to manually adjust it.
Should you prefer manual volume control, your Hearing
Care Professional can program the hearing instrument for
manual adjustment.
Via volume control
louder
softer
Rotate the volume
control with your index
finger to select the de-
sired listening volume.
For easier handling your Hearing Care Professional may
have activated the volume control only on one side.
With e2e wireless the second hearing instrument is auto-
matically adjusted.
Via remote control
Refer to the remote control user guide.
When using a remote control the volume control is
deactivated.
Changing the volume

Audio input
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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,
mp3 player, 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.
NOTICE
Use only the M5 audio shoe (labelled inside the
audio shoe). They are designed exclusively for
your hearing instruments.
With the audio shoe M5 attached, the battery compart-
ment switch is disabled and the hearing system can only
be switched off via program button or remote control.
WARNING
Risk of injuries caused by electric shock!
Connect audio input only to a device conform-
ing to IEC 60065 (IEC-Norm for audio, video and
other electronic devices).
Audio input

Audio input
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Attaching the audio shoe
Open the battery compartment ①.
Open the audio shoe cover ②.
Close the battery compartment.
Align the contacts of the audio shoe
with the contacts of the hearing
instrument.
Slide the audio shoe over the
hearing instrument until it
snaps into the end position.
Your Hearing Care Professional
can program your hearing
instruments so that they switch
automatically to the audio shoe
program if an audio shoe has
been attached.
Removing the audio shoe
Slide the audio shoe in the oppo-
site direction to that for attach-
ment and take it off.
Close the audio shoe cover.

Telephoning
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Hold a telephone near your hearing instrument (*).
The hearing instrument automatically switches to the
telephone program.
Move the telephone away from your hearing instru-
ment.
The hearing instrument switches back to the previously
used program.
You can also select the telephone program manually by
using the program button.
When operating the hearing instrument in telecoil
mode, the wireless function may cause a pulsing
noise. This is due to the pick-up of the transmis-
sion signal. When your hearing instrument is in
telecoil mode please use the remote control only
with a distance greater than 10 cm (4 inches).
(*) AutoPhone magnet accessory
Not all telephones produce a magnetic field strong
enough to activate the AutoPhone function. In this case,
use the AutoPhone magnet, available as an accessory,
and attach it to the telephone receiver to activate the
Auto-Phone function.
Telephoning

Telephoning
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See the AutoPhone magnet user guide for
instructions on how to position the magnet.
Use only the Siemens magnet. Ask your Hearing
Care Professional for this accessory.
WARNING
Magnets may interfere with the operation of life
supporting systems (e. g. pacemakers, magnetic
valves).
Use a magnet only if not in doubt about the
safe distance. The safe distance between pace-
maker and magnet should be at least 10 cm
(4 inches).
NOTICE
Magnets can disturb electrical devices and delete
stored data.
Keep magnets away from computers, color
monitors, television sets, floppy discs, video-
and audio discs and other electronic equipment/
devices.