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by stripboat99
Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:31 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Longer lasting power for tent camping
Replies: 31
Views: 8221

Re: Longer lasting power for tent camping

Real life updates on the battery. I used it for two weeks straight camping, charging it during the day while riding the motorcycle. I could never get it to charge over 66% off the bike charging system, but that was enough for two full nights of sleep. The wall charger provides 20V vs the approx. 16V...
by stripboat99
Tue May 26, 2015 5:02 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Longer lasting power for tent camping
Replies: 31
Views: 8221

Re: Longer lasting power for tent camping

Thanks to the information in this thread, I picked up the same Q-Infinity battery that raftergirl had success with and guess what, it worked well for me too. Three full nights on my S9 set at 11, and still some charge left. Thank you! Much lighter to haul around than a motorcycle battery!
by stripboat99
Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:36 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: single people using cpap
Replies: 15
Views: 2872

Re: single people using cpap

Before I met my significant other I would just ask them if they wanted to get any sleep or would they rather listen to me snore all night. And if they said that my snoring couldn't be that bad - I would tell them that it's so bad I don't sleep without the snorkel. Feel free to go home, but I'm sleep...
by stripboat99
Mon May 16, 2011 12:53 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: need recommendation on Battery pack for CPAP
Replies: 20
Views: 8082

Re: need recommendation on Battery pack for CPAP

Look for an AGM type motorcycle battery! Much smaller than a car battery, a 22AH battery will run my Resmed for three nights with no problemo!
by stripboat99
Tue May 03, 2011 6:41 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Motorcycle Riders and CPAP usage
Replies: 13
Views: 6016

Re: Motorcycle Riders and CPAP usage

Okay, I'm avatared!

It's a picture of mt R1150RT, taken near Glacier National Park coming home from Sturgis last summer!

I felt like a fish out of water with my horizonally opposed two cylinder engine amongst all those big v-twins
by stripboat99
Mon May 02, 2011 11:06 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Motorcycle Riders and CPAP usage
Replies: 13
Views: 6016

Re: Motorcycle Riders and CPAP usage

Howdy, I like to ride and don't always stay in motels. I ride about 20,000 miles a year and need something that will work off 12volts so I can charge it during the ride. Battery: I needed a new motorcycle battery and unfortunately what I ordered did not fit in the battery carrier, it was 1/16" too w...
by stripboat99
Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:23 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: DME actively discourages use of software?!
Replies: 49
Views: 10081

Re: DME actively discourages use of software?!

I don't want to purchase the software until the CPAP is fully paid for. In any event, to avoid any complications, I don't plan on purchasing the software until the machine is paid for; I don't want the DME telling my insurance that I was "noncompliant" on that basis and socking me with the other hal...
by stripboat99
Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:55 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Highest AHI,Longest Apnea,Lowest Desat
Replies: 30
Views: 11267

Re: Highest AHI,Longest Apnea,Lowest Desat

AHI of 117 for me. I was a walking zombie before I finally went in for my sleep study and left the study with a script in my hand. With my treatment I average somewhere between 1.2 and 2.5 AHI. I feel soooooooo much better!
Mark
by stripboat99
Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:51 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: How am I supposed to feel?
Replies: 10
Views: 2944

Re: How am I supposed to feel?

Makes sense to me! I'm feeling better every day - and I've been hosed for three months. I felt like you after the first week and it keeps going the right way for me. More energy, easier to get up in the morning and the lethargy is gone!
by stripboat99
Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:39 am
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Problems with ResMed humidifier tank on new machines?
Replies: 12
Views: 4220

Re: Problems with ResMed humidifier tank on new machines?

I tried 'em both, I started with a Resmed S9 Escape and had it for the month that it took to get back in to the sleep Dr. for a script for a data capable machine. The only data capable machine that the DME would then give me was the Respironics Remstar Pro Cflex+. The Respironics felt like it was "h...
by stripboat99
Wed Jan 19, 2011 11:22 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: Have you felt a rebirth since cpap?
Replies: 25
Views: 5450

Re: Have you felt a rebirth since cpap?

I've been on the hose for almost three months now and I feel twenty years younger. My API in my study was 117 and they wasted no time in my split study getting me on a machine. I'm much more active than I was, morning headaches are gone and projects/things that went dormant are getting completed. Ge...
by stripboat99
Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:23 pm
Forum: CPAP and Sleep Apnea Message Board
Topic: What do you call yours?
Replies: 71
Views: 11191

Re: What do you call yours?

Puff the Magic Dragon seems to work for me!