Do VAutos have any firmware or electronics changes to consider before buying new?

[2SleepBetta]

I want to order a new AirCurve10 VAuto, from one of our AB listed vendors within hours, and would appreciate word on any device or firmware changes and, if any, their significance.

[Crimson Nape]

The nice thing about the AC10 VAuto is that it has been out long enough that it is considered a stable device. They are the cat's meow.

[2SleepBetta]

Thank you CN and a hearty second from me, but don't want to forfeit any significant VAuto improvements that are known here. 

So used to my Vauto's great results the past couple years--long freed of lethe-sunken Autoset great-FL-escapes-- I'm close to being lulled into experimenting one night. Use only my c-collar, supinity block, pulse oximeter and, maybe, my accelerometer to record how it goes. If I awaken with that old dry lizard back in my mouth a time or two, maybe don my usual Silipos mouth seal--if hosing up doesn't seem necessary. But my wife long ago fled our bed for another across the hall: too much noise, airflow. So there will be no elbow nor "Roll over". One thinks back to Justice Scalia's end with his mask off (if that explains his death and our country's loss).

It would scratch my itches to see the most declarative quantitative data and graphics a mere patient like me could gather from such home experiments.

All this gadgetry we can fiddle with. Aren't there user friendly rental or consumer level pneumotachometer setups, too?   ('Got to read at that link more closely. Great stuff about nasal and upper airways.)

I've been going more nearly bare back with just a hose, always the c-collar, often the oximeter, and sometimes the Dreem 2 (which can't distinguish WAKE from REM very well--the main reason I bought and gave it a try, foolishly hoping to get a better grip on what arousals look like exactly). 

My VAuto's OSCAR montages of the sleep metrics are ho-hum thanks to its way-back settings from SR . The whole sleep topic is fascinating, but my VAuto curves no longer are.  'Am fortunate to have only OA and FL that are largely positional and highly suppressed by VAuto and c-collar.

I have, here and there, done your check of synch between my CMS50I and the VAuto clock at startup, but have only once remembered to do it at the end of sleep. That hand of mine hits the VAuto button reflexively as I rise and unmask. If it would be of any value, I could lay out more of what data I have and try again. The most practical approach for me is to periodically note Fast and Slow for each device according to my old Blackberry's analog clock. Then, occasionally, reconcile those for use in other graphs so as to have all synchronized. Fortunately, the Dreem 2 is fixed on local GMT, best I can tell--one thing accurate in it. Its time agrees with the Blackberry's.

[SarcasticDave94]

Probably not much firmware or software updates on their to-do list. ResMed 10 with Winders 10 perhaps.

To enter Clinical Menu push home, dial, and power. As in control+alt+delete.

To stop therapy, push the start button.

Only to be topped by the display; red screen of ghoul.

[cathyf]

Are you meaning that you are going to order a new vauto 10 to replace the vauto 10 that you already have?

I think that the real question is when does the AirCurve vauto 11 come out, and what goodies will it have? RERA detection? Some "for her" variation? EasyBreathe?

The Autoset 10 came out in summer/fall 2014 -- when did the vauto 10 come out?

The Autoset 10 version that added RERA detection was like 2016? 2017?

Given the current state of supplies (the worldwide chip shortage and PR recall are pretty much a perfect storm) I would imagine that the vauto 11 is going to be quite some time in coming.

[2SleepBetta]

@cathyf:

I can only respond to your first and last items. Else? No idea.

The new VAuto is to be at hand or in use if the older one with higher hours should fail. 

The older one, with high hours I purchased used (with low "Run hr"), might have been refurbished. I don't know if the "odometer" was reset nor what the expected remaining run  time to failure is. 

I see there are comparably priced units, sold as refurbished, which are clearly identified as such. That  may or may not be because  of  a "Run hr" reset to zero. From a marketing point of view it seems a reset would be done. Who wants to knowingly buy a $1200 refurbished unit showing  high hours?

What's high? We see mentions of devices running still after 20,000 hours. What's refurbished? New motor or not or maybe?

Again, I don't have any idea about when a VAuto 11 will be available. Seems it could be either later or sooner than would be expected absent the PR recall. Later if it is innovative, I expect, though.

Re my recent thread about buying the new unit for $1225, I commented about having to "go by the numbers" less than how I felt. I'd be interested in comments from your experience.