Rainout with the Swift LT - need coldness!

I could not tell the difference between the heated and non-heated air. The hose itself does not feel warm either.

I set the humidity of "3" which felt comfortable.

The hose is 6 feet long and is covered with fabric.

Last night I tried the previous night's fix (machine on floor, passover humidity, hose run up behind bed) but instead of running the big hose alongside my pillow and attaching it to the small hose that hung down from my face, I ran the smaller hose from the mask up over my head (there's a clip there to hold it) and then attached to the big hose. I got big time rainout. Why is there such a difference?? The water in the big hose should be running back down to the machine and the only thing running downhill to my nose is the 10 inches of the smaller tube so I would have thought that I would only have the condensation of my breath to deal with inside the pillows like the night before.

Will putting that hose above my head continue to give me huge rainout, and if so, why?

Mom....

You might want to take a look at the thread by "codorner" and his wick that he uses to catch the big drops that form in the nose-piece from breath condensation.

It only takes two or three big drops of moisture....that form from the combination of a whole bunch of small droplets (caused by breath condensation).....to make you want to say cuss words.

Just remember....you're fighting two problems......hose condensation (moisture forms inside your hose....just like the drops that form on the outside of a glass filled with ice-water).....and breath condensation inside the nose-piece (caused by exhaled breath moisture). Both problems require somewhat different measures to conquer them.

Keep whacking away at both problems......and you'll finally achieve that balance......of all the little adjustments necessary to keep the water from going up your nose......along with the comfort of a cool bedroom. You'll get there.

Gerald