Machine malfunction? or "I hate my DME"

DB wrote:Your leak rates for these 2 nights are way too high with the first night showing a leak rate of over 60%. You started the night with several snores which also would have driven up pressure but the pressure stayed high due to the high leak rate.

No..there were no large leaks...at it's not 60 %...it's 60 L/min for a Respironics machine and total leak reporting...actually not a much excess leak at all at those really high pressures. Large leak territory for a Respironics machine at those 18 cm pressure...probably up around 90 to 100 L/min total leak.
Go back and look at the Events graph...see the LL..that's Large Leak...if there had been any large leaks there would be flags on that LL line and there are none.
You may be comparing the Repironics total leak number to the way the ResMed machines report leak and they aren't the same so you can't use the same guidelines.

Nothing needs to be changed. Things are fine like they are now that the machine is functioning like it is supposed to.

xxyzx wrote: true but wouldn't an ASV force breathing if it though there were centrals
that could be a question as to whether we are really asleep or awake in a transition zone
but i have been aware of centrals as i tried to go to sleep
could i have been asleep and still aware

Huh????....where did you come up with ASV???...OP isn't using an ASV machine....not even using a bilevel machine.
It's an APAP machine...appears to be the PR S1 model 560.

If you want to discuss your specific issues....create a thread of your own and quit muddying up the waters on other peoples' threads with your ramblings about yourself...it's too confusing and doesn't help the OP who started the thread at all.

Pugsy wrote:

xxyzx wrote: true but wouldn't an ASV force breathing if it though there were centrals
that could be a question as to whether we are really asleep or awake in a transition zone
but i have been aware of centrals as i tried to go to sleep
could i have been asleep and still aware

Huh????....where did you come up with ASV???...

plucked it out of the potty, where all his posts come from.