I bought the power cord especially for the 60 series machine because the original cord that came with the battery kit fit the 50 series machine and wouldn't fit the 60 series...physically fit the little thing (sorry don't know what it is called) where we plug the power supply into the machine itself. That little round thing on the back of the machine in the hole..MikeInPA wrote:In that thread it appeared that you tried to power up your 60 Series with a CPAP.com battery and you received "a service required notice flash on the screen". Were you not using the DC power cord described above when you got the error message?
Anyway..I bought that cord to try and was using that when I got the service error.
Now I don't know why the battery would not work. I was using the correct cord as it is the only one that would fit.
I didn't pursue any other batteries to try because it wasn't that important to me at the time. My understanding was that I simply had a battery that wasn't compatible and left it at that. It was given to me by someone who also went from a 50 series machine to a 60 series (I forget why but she no longer had her 50 series machine) and she got the right 60 series cord and it wouldn't work for her either. It had worked in the past though with her 50 series machine.
The idea was for me to test it on my 50 series machine just to make sure it wasn't something in the battery as she had no way to test it.
So it worked fine with my 50 series machine as far as it went which wasn't far using the humidifier (and I won't go without my humidifier) and it not going long didn't come as a big surprise there either.
She had been told that it SHOULD work with her 60 series machine by forum members here...so she wondered is it the battery or is it the machine.
Since it worked with my 50 series machine...it wasn't the battery.
A few months later I got my 60 series machine and then ordered that special cord so I could connect battery to the machine and I got the same service error she got...so it was definitely the battery having a problem with the 60 series machine.
When she got the battery originally there weren't any 60 series machines. She used it a couple of times I think.
Now as for cpap.com packaging the same battery saying it will work with a different cord...I don't know anything about that.
I am by batteries like I am by any other electric...I turn on the switch and lights come on and that's all I care to know.
I know nothing about various specs on this or that battery. I just can't wrap my brain around it enough for it to stick so I don't even try.
So if the batteries are indeed the same in my mind I don't see how it would be expected to work...since I have one that I know won't work. But again, I don't do electric stuff at all.
Though I didn't expect it to work because I knew it was an "older" model battery. I don't remember when the "not compatible with 60 series" was added to product description. When it was added I assumed it was battery issue and not because of power cord or they would just say.."won't work unless you have this power cord to hook it up to your machine".
I wish you good luck in your hunt for a battery that works that Quantas likes.