DiverCTHunter: [quote=On a more serious note, if someone DOES have one of these (or better yet the DB9 RS232 serial dongle), I'd like to work with you on creating a makerbot-ready 3D model of the plastic pieces.[/quote] I just ordered the Respironics Bluetooth accessory module #100200B. Background I...

rg: Thanks for your reply: I really hated walking in the door of their office -- before the changes, they were a bunch of lumps. The only time they showed life, sometimes, was when I asked them to do something beyond the bare minimum --which is all they thought they should do. Then, at least sometim...

ozij : Thanks for your response to my post: Makes a lot of sense: Suppose you had a Rolls Royce with one flat tire -- how smooth would it move? The noise in your machine was caused by a faulty moving part; the air you breathe is supplied by a moving part that may have depended on the faulty one -- s...

Folks: I posted recently about figuring out that there was a bad bearing --or something-- causing a disturbing whine in my Respironics M Series BIPAP Auto with Bi-Flex machine. As a result, I was exiled to the couch by my wife. The story had a happy ending. My formerly unresponsive DME vendor has be...

Folks: I went to my HMO today. Since my last interaction, they suddenly have established a modest-sized outpatient respiratory therapy clinic. The RT checked my machine, heard the high-pitched whine, read my data, and gave me a thumbs up. She told me that the numbers are helpful, but what really mat...

BlackSpinner: Thanks for your response: In the USA you have the right to ask for a copy of your prescription for the cpap machine. Most of the time these just say "CPAP machine presure xx" and that is all cpap.com needs to fill it. I may have that right, but when I tried this with respect to my HMO'...

tommy t: Thanks for your post on this thread: How many hours are on your machine? I have found thast the remstar starts giving problems at the 10000 to 11000 hrs I am on my third one. whem the machine starts to give me problems I take to my supplier, they give me a loaner and send it in for my. I ha...

timballonguy: Thanks for your response on this thread: Some of the problems with dust that gets inside xPAP machines may happen when water gets mixed with it. This could create conductive goo that shorts out PWA's. Especially modern ones with lots of surface mount parts. But I think manufacturers ar...

Ian: Thanks for your generous and not-at-all condescending response. Actually I wasn't asking you to produce reliability data. If the data is good, it should be freely available from the manufacturers. To us cynics, lack of availability implies that the data isn't favorable. It seems strange to me t...

Really: Thanks for your response: You seem to be avoiding answering the questions in your original thread regarding how you handled this piece of equipment. That void leaves some reason to suspect you know what happened. Really!! Hmmm, I don't think so. In my original thread I was trying to diagnose...

accurate-Ian: Thanks for your very informative post. It seems that xxPAP therapy occupies a kind of grey area in the minds of many health-care professionals: It's important but not important enough to provide more than minimal contingency planning with respect to equipment failure. My introduction w...

sleepycarol: Good point about a back-up plan. In theory, living in a massive urban area (San Francisco Bay) not far from the HMO and DME, I should be able to depend on the DME stock to get immediate replacement. (I've also wondered about problems while traveling, especially to 2nd or 3rd world count...

Thanks for your responses. To repeat, I don't want to make this a gripe session. I just heard from an assistant in the office of my primary care physician. Based on her questions, I think I'm beginning to grasp the root of the problem: My HMO in general --and my primary care physician specifically--...

Folks: My Respironics REMSTAR -- BiPap Auto 500M is about 30 months old --6 months out of warranty I believe-- and it is now emitting a loud high-pitched whine, loud enough to be heard over the "covering noise" of a box-fan running at medium at the foot of our bed. My wife can't sleep through this a...

Babette: Thanks for your information and encouragement. Yes, it happens that I took the machine on an airplane trip about a month ago. I cannot imagine how air travel would have an effect, how that effect would be delayed for weeks in my case, or how the problem would correct itself. I did some more...