Has anyone got the ZZZ-Pap Silent Traveler Machine?

I'm looking at this machine as a back-up and also for travel. I would also get the humidifier and maybe the Battery kit.

Anyone have this?
Are you happy with it?

Machine is small and only about &180.00.
Humidifier $80.00
Battery Kit 348.99
About $600.00 for it all

Any advise?

Susan

I have the Everest 3 with humidifier and integrated battery pack. The battery pack was not available for some time but they now have it in stock. I believe it all costs around $540 on cpap.com. Great little machine, although it is not data capable. But it is good as a back-up machine and easy to pack for traveling. I haven't tried the zzz-pap.

Ms. S
Thanks for your reply. I will look at the Everest. I have an S9, so I don't care if the back up one is data capable or not.

I have the Zzz-PAP and, while I haven't used it a lot, I rather like it as a CPAP machine in and of itself.

My requirements were a bit different from you in that I did not have the battery power requirement. On the other hand, the Zzz-PAP is great to pack and travel with since it doesn't have the separate power brick that the Everest and my main Respironics machine has. It just uses a standard 2 wire mains power cord direct into the back of it (which has already saved me on an international trip when I forgot the cord at home; could just go to a local Radio Shack equivalent and buy a generic one). While I haven't firsthand experience with the Everest, your battery power requirement actually does tend to point toward either the Everest OR some other machine that uses the external power brick to step down to 12VDC.

While there is a battery pack available that will convert the DC power of the battery to AC, there is typically significant inefficiency in this exchange unless some pretty nice componentry is used. In a quick look at what is available, I don't see enough difference between an pack that can provide 110VAC and a straight 12VDC pack in cost to indicate a really good inverter supplied with it. As such, for a given amount of battery power, you would likely get significantly less available power time than you would with one of the machines that can take their DC current straight.

The Everest is really neat with its proprietary and very neat battery pack but any of the little machines that use 12VDC would also work well. If your requirement was potentially for more than one night between charges, even with the Everest, I would tend to lean toward one of the external battery packs with their larger batteries than what is in the small Everest proprietary set.

One other advantage to the machines, in your case it seems, that use 12VDC is nice neat auto plugin cords without needing a sometimes rather poor 110VAC inverter.

I have loved my Everest for travel & backup. But Jazzer4, be aware that the factory sadly burned down in July, and when I called them last week, was told they had no plans to re-build. So at this point, supplies are mostly exhausted, and in the probably near-future, will not be available at all. Really sad, as this is a great little machine & integrated battery system.