Ok. I've used the battery back for two nights now with complete success. After charging the battery (115 amp hour battery) to full capacity and leaving it on the maintain mode in the charger, I disconnected the battery and let it rest for a few hours to get rid of the surface charge. I took a voltag...

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Thanks again to all who have offered their time and help. I do indeed tent camp. Park the Jeep and I'm no more than 50' to camp. No hiking. No Class A camper. I spend anywhere from 2 to 4 nights camping at a time. Today I took back the jumper battery and grabbed a 115 aH deep cycle battery from wall...

Derek, I'm glad to hear that the RemStar pulls less than 1 amp DC. I've emailed the company to find out exactly how much power it uses based on my power setting of 8, but I haven't heard back from them yet. My power source (for now) is one of those emergency jump boxes from wal-mart. It's a 22 aH AG...

thanks again Jeff for the reply! could you tell me, given the cpaps stated amp draws (which are the max case), how long i could expect my machine to run using the direct DC power? my battery pack is only rated at 22 aH. using the AC I would expect the cpap to use about 8 aH for a nights sleep (16 aH...

Thanks for the reply Jeff.

I still have one additional question, which power source AC with inverter or DC is the most effecient use of my battery pack?

Greetings everyone. I have a question about camping with my CPAP that I didn't find directly answered when searching. I have a REMstar Plus CPAP. The back of the CPAP states that it uses AC 1 amp max and DC 3 amps max. I have a pressure setting of 8 by the way. I just went to Wal-Mart and picked up ...