How can I remove water from O2 tubing?

[palerider]

We are talking about O2 at very small volumes (under 10 LPM, usually 2 or 3 LPM), at very low pressures. Many times O2 must have water bubbled thru it for adding moisture. If your O2 unit is pumping water you have it in a poor air source. I wouldn't count on all O2 compressors to have working HEPA filters, mine only requires to have the outer filters washed out every few months, the inter filter might get changed at overhaul. Jim

Fact check. Concentrators operate at relatively high pressures (20-30PSI), not "very low pressures".

Also, if you don't have a functioning hepa fiter, it'll destroy your sieve beds in short order and you won't be getting any oxygen.

The normal life on the HEPA filters is in the tens of thousands of hours.

The comment about needing added humiidifcation is spot on, because the output of a concentrator tends to be very dry, and irritating when used with a canula.

[Goofproof]

My Lincare Invcare Platinum XL, only has 25,464 hours on it, it's number 5, first one dr removed after a year and half, later he ordered one again. Lincare brought a never one, very noisy, got a new one out of the truck, it wouldn't run, got this old Hog, still noisy but works. I run it in the living room on 50 foot green hose, into the bed room with a window a/c, and t.v. running all night with the bedroom door closed. I don't care about the noise, I don't want it heating up the bedroom. I don't think I need it, but like XPAP, it not going to hurt anything. I couldn't sleep without XPAP, but the O2 wouldn't be missed.

Iincare does check the % when ever they do come one time they went 6 years without checking it. Jim

If the INS would buy it outright they could cut the cost by 75%, ans still replace it every 5 years.

[dojiscalper]

True that it won't be much air. The question was how to get water out of the line, in winch case cpap would provide some air movement through the small line and would eventually dry out the tubing. It was just a suggestion to solve a current problem using what is readily available.

[wellshooter]

Sounds like condensation to me. My FIL had over a 100 ft of line on his concentrator and it happened often in winter, especially since he didn't have central heat and let the temperature in the house fall down to the dew point at night. The solution is a much shorter oxygen line, or a warmer house at night, both would be better. Canned air can be used to blow out the line, or a medical inhaler compressor, canned air is dryer.

[bwexler]

I do have a Respironics everflow Q model.
I might have exagerated slightly on the noise level, but it is too noisy for me.

[palerider]

I do have a Respironics everflow Q model.
I might have exagerated slightly on the noise level, but it is too noisy for me.

The everflow Q is even quieter than the Everflow.

If it's noisy, it may be defective.

I can't even hear the compressor in my brothers unit when I'm standing next to it. (it does have the hush hood on the intake.) all i can hear is the pfft pfft it makes (we nicknamed it 'windy').

[bwexler]

I bought it new a couple years ago to replace my old failing Everflow.
It is a bit quieter than the old machine, but I like a quiet sleep environment.