Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:41 pm
Hi Bill:
To answer your question, No none of them failed! Just tried to keep up with the new tech. and products. I still had the that cpap (res-med) sullivan lightweight up until last year - just keep it around until I donated it to the Katrina relief fund. It still worked great after all those years although much louder than the present machines. I had another one before that but don't remember the model. Started reading on the cpap.com web site a few years ago (before cpaptalk.com) and liked the small PB420G as it seemed to be a good travel machine as well as quiet although it was a fixed pressure unit. It proved to be a great machine and very quiet and easy to travel with, but still a fixed pressure at 18cm H2O! I still use it for travel etc. Then about 2 years later after reading much info on cpaptalk.com which was up and running I came to be more aware of the autos and many of the forum members had and praised the respironics auto w/ c/flex, the PB420 auto and others. I went for the remstar auto by respironics in july of last year I beleive and it proved to be an excellent machine and with some advice by Den (Wulfman) one of our great forum members I was able to set the auto much lower than I thought -13 to 18 cm H2O which made my therapy a joy compared to the fixed high pressure of 18cm H2O all those years even though i had some trouble with the c/flex which can be read in another post I wrote today to Antonio's thread, and had it turned off for the last 6 months or so of it's use. Had the reader, software etc. Then a couple of months ago I went for the Res-med S8 Vantage w/HH. As explained in my other post of Antonio's thread I got some advice from Doug (DSM) another great forum member to help me interpert some conflicting info I was getting between the various machines, and I was able to get some answers that were confusing me. The res-med S8 Vantage has proven to be the best machine I have had, gives the best therapy for me, best (Alogrithim) and is well built and very quiet, even though I've only had it several months I believe it is the gold standard for autos at this point IMO!
Well I hope this info is of help to you and others and of course these are MY opinions only!
Best to all,
Steve,
ufo13
To answer your question, No none of them failed! Just tried to keep up with the new tech. and products. I still had the that cpap (res-med) sullivan lightweight up until last year - just keep it around until I donated it to the Katrina relief fund. It still worked great after all those years although much louder than the present machines. I had another one before that but don't remember the model. Started reading on the cpap.com web site a few years ago (before cpaptalk.com) and liked the small PB420G as it seemed to be a good travel machine as well as quiet although it was a fixed pressure unit. It proved to be a great machine and very quiet and easy to travel with, but still a fixed pressure at 18cm H2O! I still use it for travel etc. Then about 2 years later after reading much info on cpaptalk.com which was up and running I came to be more aware of the autos and many of the forum members had and praised the respironics auto w/ c/flex, the PB420 auto and others. I went for the remstar auto by respironics in july of last year I beleive and it proved to be an excellent machine and with some advice by Den (Wulfman) one of our great forum members I was able to set the auto much lower than I thought -13 to 18 cm H2O which made my therapy a joy compared to the fixed high pressure of 18cm H2O all those years even though i had some trouble with the c/flex which can be read in another post I wrote today to Antonio's thread, and had it turned off for the last 6 months or so of it's use. Had the reader, software etc. Then a couple of months ago I went for the Res-med S8 Vantage w/HH. As explained in my other post of Antonio's thread I got some advice from Doug (DSM) another great forum member to help me interpert some conflicting info I was getting between the various machines, and I was able to get some answers that were confusing me. The res-med S8 Vantage has proven to be the best machine I have had, gives the best therapy for me, best (Alogrithim) and is well built and very quiet, even though I've only had it several months I believe it is the gold standard for autos at this point IMO!
Well I hope this info is of help to you and others and of course these are MY opinions only!
Best to all,
Steve,
ufo13