Resmed heated hose on Respironics RemStar Auto

I an getting my equipment tomorrow and have had too much time to think (-: Has anyone besides me given any thought to what it would take to adapt and power a Climateline hose to a Respironics Auto? We keep our bedroom at 62° at night and reading a lot lately I see a lot of discussion about condensation in the hose when the BR is cool. It would seem like a small freestanding powersupply and controller would do the trick. It would be easy to check the power draw and voltage of the hose with it connected to a Resmed and duplicate the power from a independant source.

Jim

Search the forum for "reptile heater". They are about $12 and work quite nicely.

And, the "Aussie Heated Hose" has been available on the market for years.

You may actually find out that the heated humidity exacerbates claustrophobia and contributes to more nasal congestion than cooler (aka "passover") humidification.


Den

I have a Philips Respironics System One machine and we don't heat our house at night, so it sometimes gets down into the low 50's, but I've never had so much as ONE drop of water in the hose! The PR machines do a great job of preventing rainout. I run the humidifier in "classic" mode during the winter because the vent outflow is slightly less cold by doing that, and in the summer I use the default mode--not one drop.

I wouldn't worry about it. If in practice you do find rainout to be an issue, the first line of defense is a hose cover, and if that doesn't work, then consider a hose heater. But my guess is that you won't need it at all. And Wolfman is correct that you may not be as comfortable as you think with over-heated humdification anyway.

I DO get rainout in the nasal pillows, but I don't think that's anything a hose heater would help anyway.