Resmed S9 with H5i.

I have been reading threads on how when people get up from a sleep the water is cold. I have been playing with my S9 and would like to know if anything knows how to get It working better. I have it set to climate control and auto, no manual settings. Could really use some suggestions, the water level was basically the same Wnen I got up.
Would love to keep using auto settings but if I have to go manual then I will
I am also using nasal pillows.

Thanks,
Steve

sjm1027 wrote:I have been reading threads on how when people get up from a sleep the water is cold. I have been playing with my S9 and would like to know if anything knows how to get It working better. I have it set to climate control and auto, no manual settings. Could really use some suggestions, the water level was basically the same Wnen I got up.
Would love to keep using auto settings but if I have to go manual then I will
I am also using nasal pillows.

Thanks,
Steve

First, you need to correct your references to your machine. In the text above you say S9 which is a Resmed machine. Your equipment photos link to Remstar Pro 2. Which is it? And please put your equipment in the list in text form. This really is one case where a picture is not worth a thousand words. Thanks.

Hows that?

Try setting it manually. You will have better control. I set mine to temperature of 80 and humidity level 5. Works great for me. I fill my humidifier the line BELOW the MAX FILL LINE. In an 8-9hr sleep it will use most of that water.

A lot of it depends on the ambient humidity. For me, I fill mine about 1/2 way each night (I have the same as yours) and set the level to either 1 or 1.5 - depending on if the air is dry that night.

When I get up in the AM, sometimes the tank is slightly warm, sometimes it's cold. The system only adds heat if the internal sensors see the humidity go below a certain level. With ClimateLine, you get a heated hose and a second humidity sensor at the point where the host connects to the mask, but the H5i still does check humidity at the outlet, even without CL hoses.

Thanks for the help. Last evening the water heated just fine. But yet another problem, mask leaked a bit i went from a pressure of 7 to 10 and it wasn't a very good nights sleep. I tried to tork it down to tight and it didn't help.
So tonight will be another adventure.
One more question, the power button has 3 settings off, blue light, green light. When my Cpap goes off into a cool down mode it stays into the green light mode. Is this typical or is it better to turn it off.

Thanks
Steve

sjm1027 wrote:Hows that?

Much better, but we still prefer the text entries in a member's equipment list, not the photos. There are so many same looking variations of the various mfr's machines that it's impossible to discern from the photos which machine a member has. And most of us don't, or won't, bother to click on the photo to go to CPAP.com to see which machine you linked to.

sjm1027 wrote:One more question, the power button has 3 settings off, blue light, green light. When my Cpap goes off into a cool down mode it stays into the green light mode. Is this typical or is it better to turn it off.

I leave mine powered on all the time. If you turn it off completely at the end of therapy you run some risk, probably not very high, of losing a little bit of data. The S9 takes a few seconds, maybe even a minute or so, before all the data is written to the SD card.

How did you find out the software version on your cpap?

sjm1027 wrote:How did you find out the software version on your cpap?

The software you see in the profiles is actually the PC software that person uses to read the data on their computer. It's not the software version *on* the CPAP machine itself.

As for how to go about getting the software for your machine, a quick search of the forum (search bar is under the logo for the site in the upper-left) will get you to the latest version. I'm not trying to be snarky or anything, I recommend the search because software changes, and searching the forum will get you both the links to the software and guidance on use =)

Thanks Talon,

I will check it out... I have a Mac, Maybe they have something for a Mac too

ResScan doesn't have a Mac version though it will run on a Mac if you set up a Windows environment with something like Bootcamp or Parallels.

SleepyHead does have a Mac version and it will work with ResMed S9 machines and PR S1 machines.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sleepyhead/

Also, Sleepyhead (Search the forums, and be ready for the occasional bug) does work great for the S9 on a mac.

Thanks for the software but I downloaded it and get the following message
Couldn't Find any Machine Data at this location:
/Volumes/NO NAME/DATALOG

Can't select anything past DATALOG... Instructions sort of stink

Sorry, I don't have a Mac so I can't help and don't use ResMed either.

With the Windows version the most common error is people going to the actual folder and not the root drive where the SD is located. If we go into the folder we have gone too far. I haven't seen Mac SH version to know how it directs to the drive where the SD card is located. For me the "Folder" to be selected is actually the drive with SD card. You might try that approach. Don't try to go into the Folder on the SD card. Whether this works the same on Macs I don't know.

Don't know if you read that you should switch the SD card to "read only". I think Macs try to write some little file to the SD card and then the ResMed machine squawks about it.

There are several ResMed Mac users that will be along to help you.

SleepyHead is still in development. Originally written for PR S1 machine users and hasn't been all that long ago when ResMed support was added. It is pre Beta software and author hasn't had the time to develop an extensive user guide until the software changes had slowed down. He is working on User Guides now.