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From: BleepingBeauty on 6 Jun 2008 14:59

"BleepingBeauty" <BleepingBeauty(a)comm*speed.net> wrote in message
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I had my follow-up visit with the doctor, and I'm happy to report that I
don't have diabetes. I haven't experienced skewed a.m. vision since I've
been using the eye drops, so I'm pretty sure that dry eye was/is my issue
there. I've also stopped utilizing my ceiling fan during the night, and I
think that's helping also.

With regard to battery backup, my machine is a Remstar Plus M Series with
C-Flex, and my pressure setting is 12cm. My DME wants $112 *just* for the
DC cable I would need (cpap.com sells the same thing for $25), and he said I
don't even want to know what they'd charge me for a deep-cycle marine
battery, so he suggested I buy the equipment online.

Although I want battery backup primarily for occasional in-home use here in
Arizona, I'd prefer a lightweight system in case I do travel and want to
take it along. To that end, I found a couple of lithium ion battery pack
options on www.cpap.com that I'm considering. I think this one will work
well enough for my purposes, with about 9 hours of usage time from a single
charge:
http://www.cpap.com/cpap-machine/CPAP.com-Lithium-Ion-Battery-Pack-with-Respironics-12v-DC-Cable.html.
This battery pack weighs just 2.5 lbs. (which makes it extremely appealing),
and the cost is $280. There's another battery system available that offers
about 3x the usage time at a cost of $450:
http://www.cpap.com/cpap-machine/c222_super_cpap_battery_pack_lithium_%20ion.html.
This one weighs less than 5 lbs. (The usage times apply to my machine and
my pressure setting. There's a chart on each of the web pages where you can
input your machine type and pressure setting to determine usage times for
your individual needs.) Has anyone used either of these batteries? If so,
opinions will be appreciated.

I also looked into an Uninterrupted Power Supply unit, but all of the units
I see online concern backup power for computers. Since I'm not technically
savvy, I don't know how a CPAP machine compares with the power needs of a
PC. All of the technical info I'm reading is just confusing me, and I think
I'd be better off with a simple solution like the all-inclusive battery
options available through cpap.com. I also looked into a jump-start car
battery and, although the cost is appealing, the size and weight of the
battery is a negative factor. At this point, I'm not as concerned with the
cost as I was initially. It's more important that I be able to sleep when I
want and need to (and as easily as possible). Now I just have to decide
which of the two units mentioned above I want to buy.

Again, thanks for all the input. I hope some of the info I've included in
this post is helpful to others.


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