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Sorry Gumby, Wab is correct, you can use your current power supply minus the section that goes to the old humidifier. You would simply plug the end currently plugged into your cpap/bipap, into the humidifier.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry Gumby, Wab is correct, you can use your current power supply minus the section that goes to the old humidifier. You would simply plug the end currently plugged into your cpap/bipap, into the humidifier.

Isn't that the part that is hard wired into the HH? That should be pretty!

The hard wired part was just another baaad idea.

You can remove the cap end from the power supply. It simply pulls off. (It is not hard wired) Under the cap you will find a socket that you can plug the 110v ac line back into your current power supply which minus the cap will now look like this....



You then simply plug the 12v coaxial plug into the humidifier, and then plug the coaxial plug coming from the humidifier in to the cpap.

You simply now have a humidifier that runs off of 12V dc as opposed to 110v ac.

NICE UPGRADE if you don't have 110v ac available.

Maybe the next revision will include a switch for pre-heat to satisfy all you TANK fans.

Correct Wab, however you will have to purchase a 12v cable to run it off a 12v power outlet like the ones in your vehicle.

It does infact work, I just got in from testing it in my truck. The humidifier did heat up and it SEEMED to be around the same temp as with 110v. On a setting of 5 the heater plate was too hot to hold your hand on. I took pictures, will post them on photobucket when I get home.

After lookiing at it.... I figued it would work on 12v dc.

Glad to hear it really does work.

I may do this upgrade soon... just in case of a power failure.

I could run it from my truck in through a small hole in the wall. My truck sets in the garage which is next the bedroom.


As a last resort.... I would sleep in the truck.

Pictures of it connected up in my truck on up on my photobucket. You can see the blue light is on in one of the pictures indicating that the heater is on. Yeah yeah I know that doesn't always mean it's on with an M series!!! Anyway like I said it does heat up, so from what I can tell it does work as intended.

To be clear - You're exactly right, the hard wired part goes to the HH. Which means that YOU will have to purchase the new HH or am I just not understanding how this works?

The "cap" is hardwired to the humidifier. SO... yes if you want to benefit of having DC powered humidifier.... you must buy the new rev3 humidifier. (The new humidifer will not come with a differant power supply. You must reuse the CPAP supply and disconnect the cap from it. )

Btw, all that cap is doing is providing a 110v connection from the 110v line running from the 110 line going into the adapter to the CPAP adapter.

It is in effect it is the same as plugging it into the wall socket.

Why they made it like that is most confusing.

[quote="akcpapguy"]I do however feel that this is a good change, if it does in-fact work. They have change the power connection so that it connects the same way the old Legacy series humidifiers connected. So the power connector plugs into the humidifier and than from the humidifier into the cpap/bipap.

Here is the big change, according to the tech at Respironics (who I spoke with this morning), the humidifier will operate off 12v power along with the cpap/bipap. I am going to take it out to my truck at lunch and see it it actually heats up. I will post pictures on my photobucket when I get home from work.

Sleepngo,

Sorry that is not the new part number for the humidifier, still researching it.

I got the first of these 12v compatible humidifiers 2 1/2 weeks ago, and every xPAP machine I have recieved since that time has included the new humidifier.

I don't know why CPAP.COM doesn't know anything about the new humidifier, but prompted by your comment I called a couple of other online vendors and they told me the same thing. One could draw a couple of different conclusions from that, but i will let you decide for yourself.

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Mseries Heated Humidifier part# 1049109

This is the part number we use when ordering the new heated 12v Mseries humidifier. I confirmed that that number is infact the part number for the new humidifier.

[quote="Anonymous"]Mseries Heated Humidifier part# 1049109

This is the part number we use when ordering the new heated 12v Mseries humidifier. I confirmed that that number is infact the part number for the new humidifier.

So... can anyone measure the current consumption of the new DC humidifier... the only reason I would have any interest in one would be for when I was away from power... and knowing how much current it will consume would help in determining just how big of a battery it would take to use this new humidifier while on battery...

Also... has anyone had any luck finding one for sale?

google "m series humidifier r3" .... you will find another xpap seller tht has them .

Wab,

The R3 is not the 12v version, it only has the newer interior design it is still 110v. I corrected this mistake in an earlier post, I was looking at an old shipping receipt and thought I was seeing the new 12v humidifiers.