Climate Control / Tube Temp -

hello , I am up North and its getting cold and dry... wanted to get some feedback on what these settings should be for this time of year and a colder dryer climate .. right now my tube temp is set to 73 and I have climate control set to AUTO -- my nasal passages or mostly stuffy .. and I do have a dev. septum .. what settings do you all use for this climate or someone who has nasal stuffiness or blockages .. tx

What is your bedroom temp?
What is the ambient humidity in your bedroom?
Do you use any wood heat?

Pugsy wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:16 pm

What is your bedroom temp?
What is the ambient humidity in your bedroom?
Do you use any wood heat?

Bedroom temp @ night approx. 67-70 this time of year .

Not sure on humidity .. would guess its pretty low. pretty dry this time of year , northeast .

No wood heat .

If you are comfortable with things like they are in terms of temp and humidity then there is probably no urgent need to change unless you start getting some condensation in the mask or hose but you may not get it with your bedroom temps where they are now.

The stuffy nose...may or may not be related to the humidity setting. Some people find that they need less humidity and the nose is clearer and some people find they need more moisture to keep the nose clear.
And of course nasal congestion might be totally unrelated to the humidity in the cpap air.
Generally if you have a stuffy nose during the day...then something else is the cause but if the congestion gets worse with cpap use then you might think about using less of a setting or a higher setting. Auto setting for humidity on the AirSense is equal to about a setting of 4 if you were going manual. Not a very high setting at all...sort of middle of the road.

My bedroom gets really cold when the temps drop because it is poorly insulated and also I have windows facing north. I like cooler air in the summer but I don't really care for it in the winter. Makes my nose hurt when it gets cold. So when my bedroom gets below 62 degrees I will turn the hose air up to around 80 degrees...for comfort and also condensation prevention because I tend to need and use a higher humidity setting.

So really it's all about what is comfortable for YOU....you are the only person you have to make happy with the settings and what I like to use you may not like at all.

Typically in the winter even without wood heat (which really dries out the air) the ambient humidity is a bit lower with the use of a furnace unless a person has a fancy furnace that also adds moisture. Mine doesn't do that. It's doing good to just heat.
So you may use more water in the winter than you do at other times even if you don't change any settings.

Thanks Pugsy, I am having a hard time understanding the "climate control" right now it is set on auto .. and I had the temp at 73, … does climate control, control the humidity? i think it ranges up to 8 on the resmed, should i jus leave it set on auto? and aJUDST THE TEMP?

Climate control on auto will give you around what would be a setting of 4 for humidity if you were doing a manual humidity selection.
On "auto" the humidity doesn't vary though. It doesn't roam around during the night from 3 to 8 at all.
It will auto adjust a bit in terms of taking the ambient humidity and doing what is needed to give you a consistent humidity delivery that is equal to whatever your selected humidity selection might be.

https://www.resmed.com/us/dam/documents ... sa_eng.pdf

The hose air temp has 2 functions....one being your personal choice and the other prevent condensation in the hose.

Hose temp on "auto" will try really hard to prevent condensation but it doesn't always work optimally if the bedroom is on the cold side.
I can't use auto for hose temp in the winter because I keep the bedroom too cold most of the time. I have to sometimes use almost max hose air temp to prevent condensation.