Length of Resmed Slimline Tube

ekaren · Post by **ekaren** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:31 am

I have a 6 foot Resmed Slimline Tube (not the special heated kind). Are longer ones available? If not, is there some type of connector available to use 2 of them.

(The guy at my DME is useless and can't answer a simple question.)

xenablue · Post by **xenablue** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:38 am

No, the climateline and slimline tubes only come in that length as far as I'm aware. I asked my DME a few months ago and this is what they told me, plus I didn't find anything online regarding longer tubing.

cheers,
xena

raptor5150 · Post by **raptor5150** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:51 am

You can buy a hose connector at cpap.com, look under hose section. Then you can connect 2 hoses.

wardmiller · Post by **wardmiller** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:56 am

Ekaren, get a short piece (say, 3/4" to 1") of 3/4"copper pipe, the kind the plumbers use for water. You can use it as a coupler, to join two lengths of the Slimline Tube.

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 12:08 pm

Bear in mind that additional tubing length may slightly impact your therapy pressure (or so they say)
Naturally, they will not share any statistics with us.

Denial Dave · Post by **Denial Dave** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:18 pm

For some strange reason the climate line hose is 6 inches longer than the standard slimline hose.

Dave

chunkyfrog · Post by **chunkyfrog** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:49 pm

Actually, the regular hose is about a half foot shorter than the heated hose.

hobbs · Post by **hobbs** » Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:02 pm

Two meter = 78.7402 inches. Most cpap hoses are 72" long. I have only found one light weight hose that is 2 meters long, besides what shipped with my Resmed S8.

sol · Post by **sol** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 4:38 am

you can use the 10 feet hose ... just change hose type to standard

ekaren · Post by **ekaren** » Wed Dec 12, 2012 9:38 pm

Thank you everyone. I found where I can change from slimline to normal diameter--something that the guy at Apria was clueless about.

A regular hose might not be as light, but I would rather have it heavy and not accidentally pull a Resmed s9 off the night stand.

Denial Dave · Post by **Denial Dave** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:23 am

Consider yourself lucky that your Apria rep even knew there is a hose on the machine.

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