palerider wrote:given the proven fact that ozone is harmful to metals and plastics, it's interesting to note that there's *nothing* to prevent backdraft into the blower unit as the ozone allegedly circulates through the humidifier and hose...
so, either it does nothing of note (most likely) or it's slowly destroying the cpap...
There's a level of ozone that wouldn't damage CPAP equipment. Maybe they've found a level of ozone that does useful germ killing, but doesn't damage the equipment.
They may also control the pressures and such so that the level of ozone that backflows through the blower unit is low. They could do this fairly easily by having a slight amount of airflow out of the closed system.
i.e. they claim to have found the happy medium in terms of ozone concentration. I'm skeptical, but it's possible.
chunkyfrog wrote:And if your pet should take a nap nearby--
This could end very badly.
The machine depends on recirculating the air in a closed loop to generate a high amount of ozone "inside the box." If it was leaking ozone, it's unlikely to produce it fast enough have a large health effect when mixed with room air. Even fairly bad ozone emitting devices have fairly minor health effects, and only then over a long period of time.
The ozone generator is designed to ozonate about 1 cubic foot of air. It's not going to do much ozonation of a room with 1000 cubic feet of air.
