external humidifiers

[cexer]

are there external humidifiers which work with the resmed 10 series and the climate line air tubing
(i've been searching, but i wasn't so lucky) ?

they may have bigger tanks than the internal one,
so this could be another idea for preventing dry-outs in the middle of the night.

[G. Szabo]

Homemade humidifier enlargements are published on this forum; you need to search a bit. 
You can also purchase expensive external chambers with circulators on Amazon for CPAP.

[SarcasticDave94]

External transfer pump style, there's a CSpring brand.

External CPAP and ventilator humidifier, look up Fisher and Paykel.

[cexer]

i've seen people attaching like bottles,
but this would also enhance the dead space and i don't know how much it matters.

actually i came from there but opened a new threat to not go further offtopic.


@dave:
i've seen the cspring stuff. its expensive for just a container with a pump.
it would not be too hard to thinker that oneself, but the pump would probably be to loud.

i've also seen a youtube video where someone did this,
but can't find it anymore.

a check valve could prevent the dead space issue if they seal good.
also with the bottles.


then there is the question of a external humidifier with the climate line connected to a separate power supply.
the resmed 10 series has a menu option "external humidifier". what is it doing, exactly ? is it about dead space ?

i've seen a youtube video about the fisher & paykel hc 150, probably from the same guy like the other video.
that's a volume of water which i could work with, and the baseplate whare the device can be fixated on is also looking good, but much clutter anyway.

will see. thank you.

[meraa]

Seems like I am not the only one with my water tank running dry after 5 hrs.  Resmed AirCurve 11 with humidity level 7 and temp 86F, P supt 10 to address CA & H clusters, manually counting lots of additional RERAs.  The high pressure means more airflow, so more water needed. Better results now on side sleep.  I wake up at night 2x, and I can then refill the water tank.

[cexer]

you don't have rain-out ?

with the room on 60% relative humidity temp-level 5 and 30° (86F), i have.

with the room on 40% relative humidity
i seem to be able to go down with the tube-temp a little (or up with the humidity level).
29° feels much colder, but to dry for forest smell of course.

even if 5 still feels dry, i will try going down to 4 for saving water
and see if i can live with it.

my pressure is more in direction of 20, here.

how do you mean manual counting ?
i count leftover-events with a game controller.
unfortunately i can not import it into oscar.

[DancesWithCats]

Put a room humidifier near the intake of the machine. No need to mess with the machine itself directly, then. If the air going into it is more humid, it doesn't need to add as much water from its own tank.

[cexer]

one would have to be very careful with this,
cause leftover water droplets could hit the filter and the motor.

[DancesWithCats]

Not a problem if you use an evaporative humidifier (which only blows out humid air, no droplets) rather than an ultrasonic mist-blowing humidifier.