23 Jan
2012
23 Jan
'12
7:27 p.m.
From: jim s
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:17 AM
On 1/21/2012 3:11 AM, Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
[quoting Dave McGuire --rma]
>> Eeeeeek! I am on CPAP as well; power
failures are VERY
>> disconcerting. I run mine on a small UPS now. I strongly recommend
>> it. In the event of a power failure, the beeping of the UPS will
>> likely wake you up, but without that oh-so-wonderful suffocating
>> feeling.
> Shoudn't these toys be battery-backed from
factory? :oO
I've never seen one that is. I have two bipap
machines, one which runs
a compression fan continuously, and one when you breath. Neither would
probably run long on batteries, they use a lot of power.
the newer machines are a lot like my second machine,
but still probably
draw enough to need a pretty substantial supply to run for very long.
A good friend of mine built his own UPS for his CPAP using a deep-cycle
marine battery. Plenty of power, long run time on one battery, and he
keeps a spare battery for longer outages. He also has a generator at
his house, but this means he doesn't have to get up in the middle of the
night to kick it into life.
My wife has a blind spot WRT these things: "Why don't you just sleep
without it for a night?" She doesn't understand that breathing is worse
than rock cocaine as an addiction: Since I became able to sleep through
the night, I can't go back. :-)
Rich