Water droplets in bleep mask

[mets123]

I have been using the bleep mask for over three months now. It is the best mask I have used and really love it. I have been having a problem recently with water droplets in the dreamway section of the tubing. No actual rainout hitting my face just noticing water droplets. The tubing seems dry though. I use a humidifier in the room and my room temperature is about 70 degrees. Nothing has changed recently. I do tape my mouth but I do have some dryness in the morning probably from air escaping my lips. I almost always show a leak value of zero. I have my humidity set at 4 and tube temperature at 84 degrees. I raised the tube temperature to try and deal with the dry mouth in the morning rather than raising the humidity. I have tried chin straps in the past and I use a soft cervical collar at night.
Thanks for any help.

[Pugsy]

Your options...

1....turn up the hose air temp
2....turn up the house furnace temp
3....add a short hose cozy to the hose from the heated hose to the mask at the face.

Most likely it's the moisture in your own exhale breath that is condensing in that area of the mask. It has no where to go due to the way the mask is made and worn. I have this happen myself.
It doesn't really hurt anything as long as it doesn't wake you up or you get in a position where the moisture gets up next to the adhesive and cause the adhesive on the ports to come loose.

[mets123]

Thanks Pugsy for your response. I do have a cover for the hose and I have even turned up the tube temperature to max of 86 degrees. Good to know you have also experienced this. Do you think it makes sense to raise the humidity to 5? If I do would I then lower the tube temperature?

[mets123]

Pugsy, did you mean to get a cover for the short tube that connects to the dreamway?

[Pugsy]

Pugsy, did you mean to get a cover for the short tube that connects to the dreamway?

Yes.
Hose cover on the short hose, after the heated hose, will help maintain the warmer hose air temps longer so greater chance for the area of the Dreamway connection to keep a higher maintained temp.

Warm air holds more moisture than cooler air.

Condensation anywhere is just Physics in action. If you want to reduce condensation then you warm up the air if you can and if you can't you try to at least maintain the warmer air with some sort of short hose cozy because as soon as the air in the short hose starts to cool a bit then you have a chance for condensation. The longer the short hose the greater chance for the air in that hose to cool off to a point where condensation happens.

Do you think it makes sense to raise the humidity to 5? If I do would I then lower the tube temperature?

I don't know if you need more humidity or not but I guarantee you that an increase in humidity level and a decrease in hose air temp is going to greatly increase the chance of condensation happening.
Warm air holds onto moisture a lot better than cool air. It's physics.

If you increase the humidity setting you need to increase the hose air temp in some way or fashion if you don't want to increase the chance of condensation.

[mets123]

Thanks so much Pugsy for all your advice.