Intellipap arrived. Smooth sailing with your help

[HerbyPeg]

Miracles do happen. My MD's office got the paperwork to the online vendor in a timely fashion and my machine arrived today. Thanks to the support I've received in the past and any and all anticipated help I've set it up the way I need it. (Yes, I did)

I'll tackle the software tomorrow. After I return the RemStar to the DME.

Six weeks since diagnosis and I still don't have a copy of my prescription. Ah, that's another story.

I wish everyone blissful sleep

[LarryD]

I hope you enjoy your Intellipap as much as I do. I got mine on Feb 22 and the software on the 26th. I'm still learning about the software, but it's been fun. I've also had very good input from other members of this forum.

Good luck

Larry

[Slartybartfast]

Good on you! That's a great machine. I have one at my wife's place. It's very customizable. Factory setup is a little Darth Vaderish, though. At the end of your exhalation, there's a little bump up in pressure that I found annoying. Fortunately you can tweak that away with one of the settings. It might be on the CFLEX menu; don't recall right now. My machine's 1000 miles away, and so's the manual, so I can't be more specific right now. Perhaps someone else will be along who knows what I mean. I found a setting of 4 or 5 on the humidifier was about as high as I could go without generating rainout.

When I'm using it, I sleep just as well as I do using my S9 Autoset that cost about twice as much.

[Emilia]

Welcome to the Intellipap group! I love my machine, and I have had excellent therapy from it. If you need the clinician's manual, just PM me with your email address and I'll be happy to email it back to you.

Best of luck... if you have problems, just holler!

[jimnsc]

Hi and welcome to the Intellipap group. The nice lady in the post above can help you a bunch with your machine. I've had mine since March 20th and had my best AHI just last night - 2.0. Hope you get to objective even quicker than I did. You'll love perusing your reports. Intellipap also will provide users with a 1 day through a 90 days report just by putting smart codes from the machine into an online generator furnished by DeVilbiss. It can be saved as a .pdf file and emailed to your doctor if he/she is into that sort of thing. I just sent him one - last night's!

Let me just add that finding the right mask/interface for you will be a major part of your success!

Good luck to you! I'm so new at this I couldn't possibly give you much advice but I can still listen.

Pulling for you - Jim

[the veteran]

I got a new intellipap recently. It is quality built but I found it noisy - whisles and humming at the begining of every intake. Do you have the same problem?? I am used to Purittan Bennet 420E small and quite.

[HerbyPeg]

I saw other posts with complaints about noise and paid attention to the 'Pap last night. There was a squeeck and whoosh on inhale but it was very,very faint. I pushed the side table further away from me and wasn't bothered. I do have a tinnitus which may mask some of it.

i don't have much to compare to this experience. I used a remStar for three weeks with the pressure too high and was bothered more by just getting used to the mask, etc.

Good luck.

[jimnsc]

Just have to wonder if some of those noise reports aren't "mask related" rather than from the machine itself. Mine has been on a wooden lamp stand since day 1 and no noise. I've read posts from folks complaining about noises the air escaping the exhaust of the masks sometime make and that they even whistle if they get the least stopped up. There are definite changes in the noises air makes in the mask when it goes from inhale to exhale but still, that's in the mask - and more noticeable the better the mask is sealed around your face. Leaks make all kinds of noises (ff's, whistles, etc.). Since this has come up recently I got my wife to don my mask while I listened for noises. I couldn't even hear what I described above without placing my ear directly against the mask. There will never be complete silence regardless of the machine you use IMHO. The power of suggestion tends to worsen things.

If in fact the machine does make some noise due to being on a wood surface, place it on a nice thick mouse pad. If you hear a noise your significant other doesn't, it seems it would be your mask. Just an opinion. This is funny. I saw a review written on the IntelliPap that gave it three Stars (as I recall) and the reviewer stated it blew air directly onto his spouse. Couldn't have been the machine, right?

P.S. If it is the machine - aren't you glad you have a three year warranty (the best in the industry)?

[reitzell]

I just got an Intellipap too and I really like it.

On my pap when multi-source power with both AC and DC power it using the DC power. The documentation says it should pull from AC power when both are available and I’m sure that is what is intended. So, when you have house power it uses that and if the power goes out it pulls from an attached battery rather then using the battery every-night.

I wrote the manufacture a note to let them know...

[yrnkrn]

On my pap when multi-source power with both AC and DC power it using the DC power. The documentation says it should pull from AC power when both are available and I’m sure that is what is intended. So, when you have house power it uses that and if the power goes out it pulls from an attached battery rather then using the battery every-night.

I have also seen this happen, the IntelliPAP will draw some current from a battery even if AC is connected. I suspect there is no switching circuit but the two power sources are merged with diodes so the higher voltage will win. If this is the case, another diode connected in series with the battery will drop the voltage and may fix the problem. I have not tried. Instead I keep the battery disconnected until needed.

[Bobby269]

What battery are you using with your unit?

[yrnkrn]

What battery are you using with your unit?

I purchased two 12V 7AH gel-cell batteries since they were very cheap and use them in parallel. They should last at least one night, probably two nights of use. The electricity supply is very stable, I don't recall any blackout longer than few hours, so other than for testing, I didn't actually use the batteries. With a longer blackout we'll have other troubles such as food to deal with.

[veteran]

congrats to YNKRN and thanks for the help. As a veteran of course I checked that the noise is coming from the machine. The noise from the mask vent is virtually nonexistence much better than the PB (lower flow??) I liked the term swoosh , a quit high pitch noise (parallel to hiss at lower frequencies) very low whistle that drives me nuts. I can take the humming but not the high pitch. By the way I have adjusted the parameters in the Smartflex menue and lower the noise to really low but the swoosh remains. Any suggestions??? If this is not typical I may return the unit - Thanks.

[yrnkrn]

congrats to YNKRN and thanks for the help. As a veteran of course I checked that the noise is coming from the machine. The noise from the mask vent is virtually nonexistence much better than the PB (lower flow??) I liked the term swoosh , a quit high pitch noise (parallel to hiss at lower frequencies) very low whistle that drives me nuts. I can take the humming but not the high pitch. By the way I have adjusted the parameters in the Smartflex menue and lower the noise to really low but the swoosh remains. Any suggestions??? If this is not typical I may return the unit - Thanks.

In the SmartFlex menu try to set the SmartFlex lower and/or the IRnd/ERnd higher.