Distilled water
Distilled water
If I change water every night, do I need to use distilled?
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Re: Distilled water
No.
The worst that will happen is gradually you might get some mineral scale build up on the inside of the water chamber. How much and how fast depends on how "hard" your water is.
It's easily removed with a vinegar or lemon juice soak.
The worst that will happen is gradually you might get some mineral scale build up on the inside of the water chamber. How much and how fast depends on how "hard" your water is.
It's easily removed with a vinegar or lemon juice soak.
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Re: Distilled water
What have you been doing the past 8 years???
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Re: Distilled water
Personally, I prefer to use distilled water. Sometimes, we find drinking water that has a slightly off smell when we travel. I would not want to smell that all night long. When we travel, we just pick up a gallon of distilled at the nearest store that has it.
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Re: Distilled water
Fun Fact: in other countries, the users manual just says "Use water".... not "use distilled water"... the distilled water thing is just for convenience.
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Re: Distilled water
And the two years before that. Must be a newcomer to the forum. Jim
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Re: Distilled water
Nobody "has" to use distilled water, as long as you don't mind slightly more frequent cleaning.
Even exclusive use of DW will not mean you never need to wash the tank.
Do what makes you happy--outside of quitting cpap, that is.
Even exclusive use of DW will not mean you never need to wash the tank.
Do what makes you happy--outside of quitting cpap, that is.
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Re: Distilled water
Yep. Letting the APAP take care of the night shift. Haven't even looked at my numbers as long as I feel OK.
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Unlike his passengers who died screaming as the car went over the cliff...
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Re: Distilled water
Based on a recent post I got some distilled water from the supermarket very cheap! It doesn't seem to leave any deposits so, being the lazy arse that I am I don't have to worry about cleaning the tank every month.
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Re: Distilled water
Glad to hear from you!
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Re: Distilled water
I've been using deionized water from the pharma lab where I worked for 30 years in my H5i reservoir. Company got bought and I found myself on early retirement. So I no longer had access to free DI water. So I picked up a bottle of Arrowhead Distilled Water at the supermarket.
After about half the bottle was used, I cleaned out the humidifier reservoir and found it was coated with mineral scale. Either the bottle was mislabeled or, well, something.
After about half the bottle was used, I cleaned out the humidifier reservoir and found it was coated with mineral scale. Either the bottle was mislabeled or, well, something.
Re: Distilled water
Tell them to stop washing their Arrowheads in the distilled water. JimSlartybartfast wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:04 pmI've been using deionized water from the pharma lab where I worked for 30 years in my H5i reservoir. Company got bought and I found myself on early retirement. So I no longer had access to free DI water. So I picked up a bottle of Arrowhead Distilled Water at the supermarket.
After about half the bottle was used, I cleaned out the humidifier reservoir and found it was coated with mineral scale. Either the bottle was mislabeled or, well, something.
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Re: Distilled water
I thought having to work in a small cubicle was bad, but that must have been horrible.Slartybartfast wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:04 pmI've been using deionized water from the pharma lab where I worked for 30 years in my H5i reservoir.
Re: Distilled water
That sounds kind of suspicious. Seems like the water wouldn't pass even the most basic electrical resistance QA test if the mineral content is that high, by which I mean it sounds negligent on the part of the bottler if your experience wasn't some weird outlier.Slartybartfast wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:04 pmAfter about half the bottle was used, I cleaned out the humidifier reservoir and found it was coated with mineral scale. Either the bottle was mislabeled or, well, something.
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Re: Distilled water
Yeah, I seem to have left out a couple of commas there . . .ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:00 amI thought having to work in a small cubicle was bad, but that must have been horrible.Slartybartfast wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:04 pmI've been using deionized water from the pharma lab where I worked for 30 years in my H5i reservoir.