Battery-Operated CPAP?

I want to buy a second CPAP just for travel. My RemStar does O.K. on the road, but some of my trips are long airline flights and I want to be able to hose myself up on an airplane. (Without carrying a Diehard auto battery on board, thank you very much!)
Does anyone here use a machine that is battery operated?

Doug

I have the AEIOmed Everest 2. It has changed names a few times. I love this little machine. It has a battery and humidifier that you can get in a bundle from our hosts.
It runs about 6 - 6 1/2 hours with the heated humidifier on. With the humidifier in passover mode I get about 12 hours. I used to just plug it in when we were expecting a storm. Now I leave it plugged in all the time and use it once every week or two. It has no data or any other bells or whistles. It is a straight cpap. It seems to me to have a slightly higher pitched sound than my regular machine. This may be a problem for some, but it doesn't bother me(or my husband). If you leave it plugged in it trickle charges the battery.
I have used it for travel(car trips only) and it packs up well in its bag with plenty of room for hose, mask, and spare parts.
Here is a link to it;

http://tinyurl.com/2othod


Brenda

Thanks, Brenda, I'll check it out.
CPAP Man also sells a battery pack that apparently turns any CPAP into a portable.
DVEjr

I often use my CPAP machine on an airplane. Mine is a Respironics M series with a battery from CPAP.com.

The machine is reasonably compact, and with the battery I can get better than one night of use plus a few extra hours here and there. One often overlooked feature of the M series machines is that the air inlet, and the hose connection are both on the back of the machine. What this means to me is that I can leave the machine connected in the bag at my feet, I just reach down unzip the bag, grab the mask and start using it. My machine has both auto on and auto off. In the cramped quarters of coach class on a full monday morning flight I don't need to pull the machine out to use it. To me this is a big help since I am a big guy, and not needing to fiddle with the machine makes a difference.

Make sure that you check with the flight attendants before you start using the machine. Some airlines simply don't allow you to use CPAP during a flight while others do allow it, but an uninformed flight attendant might awaken you to make sure that you are not using compressed oxygen.

good luck

Roadie

dvejr wrote:Thanks, Brenda, I'll check it out.
CPAP Man also sells a battery pack that apparently turns any CPAP into a portable.
DVEjr

cpap.com sells excellent battery packs:

https://www.cpap.com/simple-find-cpap-p ... tery-cable

I have the same super little machine that Brenda mentioned. The Aeiomed Everest 2. Very handy, with its own battery option.