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I have a feeling that the very few people for which just a hose cover stops rainout, they must sleep in a very warm bedroom, which probably counters any "energy saving" over a heated hose.

But if you run the room warm enough to avoid rainout, you probably also don't get your nose chilled by the cold air blasting down that tube all night.

So in that case, you probably don't need a heated hose. Although I wouldn't want to pay your energy bill or live in a place that is already that hot in WINTER.

Actually, breathing the warm air from the heated hose is about the only thing I can think of that I MISS since getting off CPAP. Sometimes on a cold winter evening I consider cranking up the CPAP and heated hose and just tossing the blankets over my head with the warm hose blasting under the covers.

snork1 wrote:I have a feeling that the very few people for which just a hose cover stops rainout, they must sleep in a very warm bedroom, which probably counters any "energy saving" over a heated hose.

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Thanks for everyone's comments so far. We have a computer on the gas furnace which turns it off about an hour before bedtime and turns it back on ten minutes before the alarm clock sounds. So in the winter months it gets as cold as 60 Fahrenheit in the bedroom and with the hose cover I still get no rainout. The air from the mask has never felt cold to my nostrils, probably because my heated humidifier is set on the next-to-highest setting.

What about in the summer? Here it is very hot and humid and my wife will only let me turn the air conditioning thermostat down so far. I turn the heated humidifier to a middle setting but it still makes my side of the bed much warmer than my wife's and this is not good for my sleeping. If I add a heated hose, won't the heat in my bed only get worse in the summer?

Sign me, "still not convinced about the heated hose"

I hang my hose. I have a hook off to the side of the bed. The hybrid works just fine that way, and no extra heat in the bed. Added bonus, no hose to tangle up in!

Brenda

Rooster, I don't think you are a prime candidate for a heated hose. ..

I agree that you obviously do not have a need for a heated hose. It appears that you run your hose in the bed with you. That may be the reason why you do not get rainout...your body helps heat the moist air.

I too set the night time room temp to 60 degrees F. and do need a heated hose, otherwise I would have to set my humidifier to zero to prevent rainout. My hose is not under the covers.

Since it is hot and humid in the summer, why not just turn the humidifier off?

[quote="ColoradoDreamer"]I agree that you obviously do not have a need for a heated hose. It appears that you run your hose in the bed with you. That may be the reason why you do not get rainout...your body helps heat the moist air.

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The heated hose continues to be a subject of varying opinions:

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Rooster,
You know you want one....

oldgearhead wrote:Rooster,
You know you want one....

oldgearhead,

You figured me out. I would love to try one out.

There are two problems with this in my household. My wife and I must each have some Scotch blood (I hope that's not a politically incorrect description) and hate spending good money on something we end up not using.

The second problem is my hen is a hoarder - we can't give away, sell or throw away anything. Every closet, dresser, cupboard and chest in the house is full plus 900 sq. ft. of walk-in attic space.

Regards,

rooster

Hoarding should not be an issue with the Aussie hose, since you should have a back up hose anyway.

I do not know many people no matter what their back ground who want to waste money.

rooster wrote:

oldgearhead wrote:Rooster,
You know you want one....

oldgearhead,

You figured me out. I would love to try one out.

There are two problems with this in my household. My wife and I must each have some Scotch blood (I hope that's not a politically incorrect description) and hate spending good money on something we end up not using.

The second problem is my hen is a hoarder - we can't give away, sell or throw away anything. Every closet, dresser, cupboard and chest in the house is full plus 900 sq. ft. of walk-in attic space.

Regards,

rooster

SelfSeeker wrote:I do not know many people no matter what their back ground who want to waste money.

You don't work in "government", do you......

Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.

Best wishes,

Den

LOL Den,

That is not their own money, that is our money they are wasting.

Wulfman wrote:

SelfSeeker wrote:I do not know many people no matter what their back ground who want to waste money.

You don't work in "government", do you......

Sorry, couldn't pass that one up.

Best wishes,

Den

This is the final word on this subject.

rooster and I sleep in the loft above the cows. There is plenty of heat rising from the cows on the coldest of nights. He does not need to waste our money on an Aussie hose. After all, our salary is only chicken feed.

BTW, since rooster started cpap and stopped snoring, Farmer Brown says milk and egg production have doubled.

Hen

Hen,

I am truly glad you are all benefitting from Rooster's CPAP treatment.

By no way, are we saying for Rooster to spend money on an Aussie hose.

We are just countering his arguments of why the rest of us should not like to try one.

Hen wrote:This is the final word on this subject.

rooster and I sleep in the loft above the cows. There is plenty of heat rising from the cows on the coldest of nights. He does not need to waste our money on an Aussie hose. After all, our salary is only chicken feed.

BTW, since rooster started cpap and stopped snoring, Farmer Brown says milk and egg production have doubled.

Hen

to use the heated hose or not use the heated hose....

Geeze I realize that is way too difficult a decision for some to make on their own

maybe you should start a POLL and list out the top 10 reasons NOT to use the heated hose?

I'm sure that the responses you get will help greatly in making that tough decision, even though 10 out of 10 past posts already exist on the subject have all been positive. I agree it needs more debate.

Don't you have one of those egg embryo checker boxes with a light? Couldn't you just pipe in that warm air from the light box to the inlet on your cpap and pre-heat the incoming air?