The newer S9 machines seem to do a lot better job of autostart than older S9 machines. My S9 machines are inconsistent on this. Sometimes, the start every time with a FFM, sometimes they won't start at all.
Yes that is exactly whats happening with mine. Sometimes it automatically turns on and other times it doesn't. There is no way of predicting whether it will or won't.
Thanks for i didn't know that until Guest mentioned it earlier in the thread.
If you had knocked the plug out or done anything to shut it off, it should have shown up in the graph and it doesn't, except for one time at 00:20 where it was apparently turned off and back on. A pressure loss would show up. If the hose was blocked, the mask pressure line wouldn't have that fuzzy appearance.
Thanks for confirming that for me.
The night before that it happened twice.
The first time the machine suddenly turned off. Fortunately it had never happened before so it did wake me up immediately out of a deep sleep.
I had done something, perhaps moved quickly, I am not sure and I almost pulled it off the shelf it was sitting on.
Got up, placed it back on the shelf properly, made sure i hadn't hooked the hose up somehow sorted it out and turned it back on and went to sleep.
It happened a second time, hours later but that time i did not wake up.
It happened again last night.
This time I got up and took the plug out of the extension cord it was in, put it on the other side, moved my bed 2 inches and got the machine plugged in directly into the plug and it worked perfectly after that.
I understand you say that you can't see anything and that i can't seen to understand.
I think there was a problem with the extension cord.
I am familiar with the feeling of no air and i always pull my mask away from my face to make sure its still going but the air DID STOP.
It just shut down. The air DID stop. Theres no doubt of that. It suddenly stopped. Thats why you see that spike there at 12:20.
The air stopped abruptly. It woke me up immediately. With the air off I took off the mask. I then put the mask back on a few second later and the air started up again.
My feeling even if these charts aren't showing it, was that the extension cord wasn't good but I am not an expert on the subject of electricity.
When I got up this morning, i took that extension and I plugged a huge fan I have into it and ran the fan. About an hour in, the fan shut down and stopped.
There must have been something wrong with the extension cord.
In any event, once I moved the bed, took out the extension cord and plugged the machine directly into the wall, it didn't happen again.
But when you are so deep in sleep and these things happen, Im finding that i am never sure the next day if i dreamed it, or if it did happen.
The odd thing about the apneas is that any other night, I have had apneas in the early part but the 2 nights I have had the air shut off and the machine shut down, neither evening has had any events before the shutdown but other nights it has.
The overall lesson I am learning from this whole experience, which I am not happy to report is that one MUST live a VERY regimented routine at least an hour before bedtime and once in bed.
Any deviation from ones routine seems to end up creating problems with ones CPAP and I find that the nights that i do deviate, are the nights something goes wrong and I get a terrible sleep.
As long as i stick to routine and don't break from it one bit, everything goes well.
Thanks for your help.
My confusion was/is as to why if I KNOW it stopped, it isn't showing up in my charts. Unless its an electrical short and its happening so quickly the machine isn't registering it?
I think it might suddenly stop and then restart again within a couple of seconds. At least that is how it appears. I don't know if the machines are sensitive enough to record a quick break like that