Rainout with heated tube

[Emmet]

My first night with the Resmed heated tube and P10 nasal pillows. 'Climate Control' set to 'Auto'. The air felt warm (warmer than ambient; 60°F), so I assume it's working. Around 0400, awoke to a freshwater sinus rinse from condensation in the hose. Woke up, field-stripped the P10 and shook everything out, laid the hose so the excess hose formed a water trap, and went back to bed. My sinuses do feel better from the humidified air than they usually do from the central heating.
Also discovered that the higher I place the strap, the more comfortable the nasal pillows, but the more likely I am to rub the whole thing off on the pillow. Lower on the head is more secure, but rotates the pillows just enough to place obnoxious upward pressure on my nose.
9.31 hours; leakage 4 L/min, AHI 6.3, MyAir score: 95

[Pugsy]

You need to take it off "Auto" and set the hose air temp warmer than what "auto" gives you if you are getting condensation.
Your ambient bedroom temperature is causing the auto part of things to not do a good job.
I have had to do this myself this winter because my bedroom ambient temp gets a bit cold.

The "Auto" thing works pretty good when the ambient bedroom temps are in the 65 to 70 degree range but below that and it doesn't work so great sometimes.

Now if the water was just in the pillows themselves...adding a hose cozy over the short hose on the P10 might be enough to prevent the condensation or even adding a barrel cozy might be enough especially if going from "auto" to "manual" ends up causing the air to be warmer than you want comfort wise.

While that water won't hurt you...it sure is highly annoying to snort it or listen to all the racket it makes.
You have several options for dealing with it though...see this thread posts #2 and 3 for various options.
Me...I just crank up the hose air temp because my nose doesn't like less moisture so I don't want to reduce the humidity setting and besides that doesn't always prevent the condensation from happening if it's from the moisture in our own exhaled breath.

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[D.H.]

First, you want to make sure that the heated hose is working and it's set to the max. It should be slightly warmer than room temperature after it's been running a while.

Next, you need to make sure that you have an automatic humidification setting. The manual settings can create mare humidity than the air in the hose can handle. While you might want to consider lowering the humidifier setting, do not lower the hose temperature!

Lastly, please make sure that the unit is lower than your head! In many cases, this will be enough to allow the water to drain downwards (back into the tank), rather than into your mask.