I thought it was car a stuck in the snow

[Stairgod]

Last night was the first night with my REMstar Auto A-Flex system one 60 Series. For myself I can handle the sound but my wife thought my exhale and inhaling sounded like a car stuck in the snow
rocking back and forth.

My question is: 1: Is this normal or do I have to change the settings?
2: Has anyone built a cabinet that allows air to cool the machine so it doesn't burn out I am a carpenter and can build anything.

Thanks for any input

[purple]

uh, do you have the machine stuck in a drawer? I have mine sitting on top of a small bedside stand, so it is open all around. I guess the humidifier can get warm. If a machine is open all around, at room temps, I can not see it overheating, but I do not know everything. In reality, these machines are quite sturdy and rarely fail without physical damage. When they fail, they usually fail catastrophically, not by little margins.

I say that because when I first started, it seemed like I was breathing with a Hurricane blowing on my face. After a few weeks, it seemed like the machine was hardly blowing at all, and I felt sure it was broken.

If you like to make things, you might first think of making a hose hanger, at least tie the hose somewhere solid, like to the headboard, so you do not drag the machine off onto the floor during the night. Getting water into a machine is one way to ruin them. Let me state the obvious again, never move the machine while it has water in it.

[howkim]

The set-up menu has a setting for a quiet mode. I forget what it's called, off the top of my head. It's engaged on my machine. I can hardly hear it.

[jdm2857]

Quiet mode?

Why would anyone run an XPAP in noisy mode?

[knightlite]

I believe quiet mode refers to not sounding an audible alarm for some problems. Most people run in quiet mode.
I found that using a hose cover quiets the breathing sounds . Putting the machine below mattress level can help and helps with rainout problems. My 560 runs real quiet.

[SeekSleep]

My wife thinks my 60 series bipap pro is the greatest thing in the world. I'm told I snore loudly, which is evidently quite bad in itself and made worse by the "not breathing" thing. She finds the relative quiet, and steady breathing rhythm I now have to be a blessing.

After just over a month on the machine now, I am finding the noise to be a slight problem, as is the mask pulsing on my face like something out of an alien movie. That's only because I'm no longer so tired I could sleep through anything though. Despite the annoyance of the machine, I'm sleeping and feeling better than I have for years, and the noise is slowly becoming almost soothing now.

[123.Shawn T.W.]

Let me state the obvious again, never move the machine while it has water in it.

I've been leaving 1/4 to 1/2 a tank of water in mine since I got it last summer ... It bounces down the road in my semi everyday ... Has close to 100,000 miles on it! Still works just fine ...

[Stairgod]

Thanks everyone,

I will try the hose cover. I think you are right also as I use it more my breathing is steady. I have set the exhale mode differently also.

[chunkyfrog]

Having a hard surface under the machine or facing it from another direction, like in a drawer,
may create a sound box effect, amplifying sounds coming from the machine.
A bit of porous drawer liner under the machine will help deaden sounds.
My machine is low enough that I can't see it while lying down, and much sound is absorbed by the mattress edge in the way.

[archangle]

Putting it in a box won't cause problems as long as there is enough of an opening in the box something like twice the size of the hose. The air going out of the hose will carry away the heat the machine generates. You need a hole for the hose, so just make it enough bigger that the machine can "breathe." If it can push air through 6 feet of 1 inch hose, it can "breathe" through another one square inch hole in the box.

Put some rubber or something similar on the bottom of the box for the machine to rest on to keep it from resonating. Don't get anything so soft the machine will sink in and can't get airflow on the bottom.

[Stairgod]

Thanks again.

I never knew the noise was coming from the bottom. When I was away last weekend I had it on a hard kitchen chair with a bum profile and it seemed quieter. I will try elevating the unit so that it has less sound to resonate and using the rubber
mat under the frame that I build.