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jfmusil
Posts: 50 Threads: 8 Joined: Jul 2012
Machine: REMstar Auto A-flex 560P
08-13-2012, 07:22 AM
CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
I was wondering if I should leave my CPAP unit plugged in 24/7 or should I unplug it each morning. Don't like the idea of hte little transformer running all the time. Thanks.
Dreamcatcher
Posts: 941 Threads: 118 Joined: Mar 2012
Machine: Resmed Autoset Spirit II with Quattro F/F & FX Masks
08-13-2012, 07:29 AM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
(08-13-2012, 07:22 AM)jfmusil Wrote: I was wondering if I should leave my CPAP unit plugged in 24/7 or should I unplug it each morning. Don't like the idea of hte little transformer running all the time. Thanks. Thats your choice. Mine is on all the time unless Im cleaning up and I need to move my machine. So the choice is yours, your machine should have a battery back-up inside so you wont lose any data if you decide to unplug 
zimlich
Posts: 393 Threads: 12 Joined: Feb 2012
Machine: Respironics PR System One BiPap Auto SV Advanced
mjbearit
Posts: 609 Threads: 24 Joined: May 2012
Machine: REMstar Auto AFlex DS550
08-13-2012, 07:41 AM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
I leave mine plugged in. The transformer is not going to do anything if there is no current draw.
As always, YMMV! You do not have to agree or disagree, I am not a professional so my mental meanderings are simply recollections of things from my own life.
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JudgeMental
Posts: 325 Threads: 2 Joined: Feb 2012
Machine: ResMed Autoset 11
08-13-2012, 11:33 AM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
Been using a CPAP for over 7 years and have never turned mine off xcpt to travel with. My thoughts are that if its like most items, it takes an extra jolt (maybe very small) to give it a start. Even that probably doesn't hurt it, but I just leave it on. Theres nothing moving in it so it stays on.
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Itsadryheat
Posts: 57 Threads: 3 Joined: May 2012
Machine: S9 autoset
08-13-2012, 12:27 PM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
Am too lazy to even consider turning it off...
PaulaO2
Posts: 10,031 Threads: 236 Joined: Feb 2012
Machine: A10 Autoset
08-13-2012, 12:33 PM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
Leave it on.
Mine gets accidentally unplugged quite often. Not from the wall but the cord from the stupid brick.
PaulaO
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trish6hundred
Posts: 8,263 Threads: 6 Joined: May 2012
Machine: Resmed AirSense 10 AutoSet For Her
08-13-2012, 01:05 PM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
Hi jfmusil, I always leave mine plugged in but I have it plugged into a powerstrip with serge-protection just for protecting the switching power supply, (brick.) It doesn't hurt them to be plugged in all the time.
trish6hundred
southernlady
Posts: 44 Threads: 1 Joined: Mar 2012
Machine: None
08-13-2012, 03:20 PM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
My husband always leaves his plugged in...unless we are traveling.
Liz
big_dave
Posts: 474 Threads: 14 Joined: Apr 2012
Machine: AirSense 10 Autoset
08-13-2012, 03:31 PM
RE: CPAP unit always plugged in or turn it off?
I keep mine plugged in, except when reassembling everything after cleaning it. The blower has an annoying habit of starting by itself at unwanted times since autostart is turned on.
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