Heated hose: how to order

1. Which is more reliable, a heated hose or a hose cover?
2. How do I order each?

Thank you, Andy

Polar fleece cover ($3) is cheaper in the long run. Doesn't use any electricity.

my Aussie hose emits an electrical smell to it, but it does a nice job of
getting toasty humid air going all night with no rainout. The covered hose worked fine with FF mask, but not so well with Swift, since Swift has its own 12 inch pipe that wasn't covered.

Keeping the hose under the covers (especially with electric blanket) seemed to work just as well.

Heated hose:

http://www.sleepzone.com.au/


Snuggle hose:

https://www.cpap.com/productpage/512

I don't think there's any comparison between the Aussie heated hose and just a hose cover. Aussie heated hose is better hands down.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe Meister got a different DC converter than what most use with the heated hose, possibly leading to overheating of the wire and the subsequent lingering electrical odor. I've never noticed the slightest electrical smell from my heated hose - been using it every night since last October.

The 12V 1 amp DC converter I use to plug in the heated hose is the Radio Shack part# 273-1776 and an "M" adapter plug. No odor of anything at all. The heated hose comes with its own very thin flannel cover. The outside of the heated hose feels barely warm to the touch. The inside of the heated hose stays just warm enough to enable warmed humidified air to make that long journey and hold its moisture perfectly all the way.

Of course, when the warmed air leaves the heated hose and finishes the last bit of the trip through the unheated short connector hose that comes with some masks, there might be some condensation in the cold shorter hose. It would probably help to cover the little connector hose to masks like the Activa, Aura, Breeze, Swift, etc.

For a non-heated main hose, perhaps a hose cover helps a leeeetle bit. It would probably be about as much help as the way a cold water humidifier helps humidify a little bit (very little!!) but nothing like what a heated humidifier can do. Of course it all depends on how cool one likes to keep the bedroom, and just how much heated humidification the humidifier can put out.

But in general, hose covers can't do anything even remotely close to what the Aussie heated hose can do in controlling rainout. If it were me, I'd just make a temporary hose cover out of stuff laying around at home - old wool socks, old flannel, whatever... while I saved my money up to buy something really effective - the heated hose.

If it is too hot for you, you can use a lower voltage than 12v for the heated hose. I use a 9v 1amp instead of the 12v and it works well.