Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by Pugsy » Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:38 pm

Tango wrote:Anyway, I don't see any events flagged?
Do you not have any?
In this situation the leak is so massive and so prolonged that the machine is pretty much clueless as to what is going on.
It can't sense well enough to know if anything is happening...hence nothing gets reported. When leaks are this bad the data (or lack of) is meaningless.

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by palerider » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:44 pm

zoocrewphoto wrote:
palerider wrote:
zoocrewphoto wrote:I don't understand why there are two lines like that, but I suspect that is what is being reported.
read the post above yours
If you will look at the posting times, you will see that mine posted right after yours. It wasn't there when I started typing. And when I post from my iPod, I don't see posts that are new since I started to type a reply until I go to read the thread again.
this doesn't change the fact that the answer to the situation you said you didn't understand was right above yours, and pointing you to that post was more efficient than posting the same information again.

sorry if you didn't like it.

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by jedimark » Mon Sep 22, 2014 10:49 pm

Large Leak flagging on PRS1 is done by the machine... if your seeing them, the machine definitely saw large leaks..

Any unwanted leak plot traces and lines can be turned off in the next version, so hopefully some will find that side of it less confusing..

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by zoocrewphoto » Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:12 am

palerider wrote:
zoocrewphoto wrote:
palerider wrote:
zoocrewphoto wrote:I don't understand why there are two lines like that, but I suspect that is what is being reported.
read the post above yours
If you will look at the posting times, you will see that mine posted right after yours. It wasn't there when I started typing. And when I post from my iPod, I don't see posts that are new since I started to type a reply until I go to read the thread again.
this doesn't change the fact that the answer to the situation you said you didn't understand was right above yours, and pointing you to that post was more efficient than posting the same information again.

sorry if you didn't like it.

But as I pointed out - that message WAS NOT THERE when I posted my statement and question. You act like it was, and it was NOT. We were probably both typing our posts at the same time. Yours happened to hit the list just before mine, but I could not see it. On my laptop, when I click on submit, it will show any new posts that have been added since I started typing. It does not do that on my ipod.

So, I would have seen your post the next time I went to the thread. I would have seen it on my own. I don't need a sarcastic comment telling me to go read your post. I have no idea why you seem to enjoy being rude to certain people, me being one of them. You have some great posts sometimes, but it is difficult to appreciate you when you act superior.

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by palerider » Tue Sep 23, 2014 11:01 am

zoocrewphoto wrote:But as I pointed out - that message WAS NOT THERE when I posted my statement and question. You act like it was, and it was NOT. We were probably both typing our posts at the same time. Yours happened to hit the list just before mine, but I could not see it. On my laptop, when I click on submit, it will show any new posts that have been added since I started typing. It does not do that on my ipod.

So, I would have seen your post the next time I went to the thread. I would have seen it on my own. I don't need a sarcastic comment telling me to go read your post. I have no idea why you seem to enjoy being rude to certain people, me being one of them. You have some great posts sometimes, but it is difficult to appreciate you when you act superior.
we all have perceptions of things, I cannot change yours, no matter how much I may think they're in error.

that was not sarcasm. it was a very direct point to address the compleatly reasonable assumption that you could very well start reading the thread at the post you'd made, and going forward, given that if one clicks the little read marker on the thread from the front page, it goes to posts NEWER than the last post you saw, which, by definition, would be your own post.

now that you've made this all about you, have you learned anything useful about leak lines on PRS1 machines, or, do you (as I suspect) simply not care? (now, that, one might argue, IS sarcasm)

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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by JSG » Tue Sep 23, 2014 8:44 pm

Sigh. Thanks for your help. I've got a fourth mask fitting on Thursday, so hopefully I'll find a mask that works, at that point. Sleep apnea, !@#$ you!
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Re: Large leak reported even though leak rate is small. (Huh??)

Post by library lady » Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:11 am

If you continue to have large leaks, you might try mask liners... http://www.padacheek.com or https://www.cpap.com. At the latter, look for RemZzzs, which you might also be able to get when you go to your fitting on Thursday. I could not contain my leaks, which kept me awake all night... until I learned about liners. Some people love them, others hate them or haven't needed to try them, but they were a game changer for me.

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