Dreamstation GO - need help with set up

Just received my Dreamstation GO with battery. I have the clinician manual, and got it 99% set up. There is a setting that I don't understand. It is MASK TYPE System One Resistance Control, and it is a setting from 1 to 5. I believe this is similar to Resmed mask type, but the Resmed choice is clear as it states the mask style. All this machine states is pick a number 1 through 5, and it has to be a Phillips mask.
So, I called Phillips, no help, but to tell me to buy their mask.
I use a Resmed Swift FX Nano nasal mask. What setting should I use?

That's not the same as the ResMed mask selection.
Do you have a setting for 0 or off? That's what we normally use with the Respironics machines when using a non Respironics mask. Just turn it off.

This is NOT a critical setting and does nothing in terms of impacting leak calculations or anything like that.

I believe this is the information you might be looking for. http://incenter.medical.philips.com/doc ... ernum%3d-2

Pugsy, Thank you. Yes, there is an OFF setting option. I'll just turn it off.

KBH- yes, that is the info, but it only lists Phillips brand masks. Mine is Resmed brand. Thanks.

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Pugsy wrote:That's not the same as the ResMed mask selection.
Do you have a setting for 0 or off? That's what we normally use with the Respironics machines when using a non Respironics mask. Just turn it off.

This is NOT a critical setting and does nothing in terms of impacting leak calculations or anything like that.

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how does the machine know how to deliver the right pressure without knowing the resistance/loss due to the mask type ?

If you bought a real XPAP, it wouldn't matter. The sensors would do their job and control the XPAP, no games required. Jim

I have long suspected that the Respironics mask numbers are a crock.

I set mask type at zero. I used it last night 7.5 hours, with an AHI of 1.0. Which is what my AHI is normally. So I think that mask type didn't make much difference in my case.

I tried all the various Resistance Settings, including OFF which is what Respironics advises for non Respironics masks, over a period of several nights and I couldn't spot any difference in anything. Not how it felt or my usual results.
If there was any difference in the pressure it was so tiny that I couldn't feel it and it sure didn't impact the data anywhere that I could spot.