Described herein is technology relevant to the field of implantable electrical neurostimulators. For example, embodiments include but are not limited to cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids, deep brain stimulators and pain control devices, as well as constituent components of such devices, methods for their manufacture, and methods for their use. For the present purposes, embodiments are described particularly by reference to exemplary cochlear implants, although that should not be regarded as necessarily limiting on the underlying concepts.