Dh needs to use a CPAP machine at night. He didn't come on our last trip as there was no EHU and tbh we didn't know if the CPAP was suitable for EHU. I believe a leisure battey would only last for 6-7 hours and a super-CPAP battery is very expensive.
Anyone any experience of this?
I am a CPAP user and yes you can use them on a EHU. Is it your own machine or supplied by the NHS? Mine is NHS and I can get a battery from the machine supplier.
I seem to remember there was only a small charge but a fairly hefty deposit.
Chipmonkey, a decent leisure battery would run it for A LOT more than 6-7 hours. I did actually know the exact time I worked out for somebody.
If you post the power details of the machine then I will work it out. Watts/Kws/amps or whatever you can find. It will be on a sticker on the machine somewhere.
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I use cPAP, and whilst I have used a leisure battery (for a week) without problem, I tend not to take it with me as there is no room in the car for it, so always use sites with EHU,
My Sleep clinic doesn't supply Battery packs, and when I last looked into buying one it was about £300. At the time I dismissed it as too expensive, but now reconsidering as I would like to do some Backpacking/Kayak Camping, and Carrying a Leisure battery is not feasible
Aw, that's great, maybe we can bring him camping then! Might get the tent up a bit quicker!
We are in Ireland and we don't have the equivalent of the NHS that you have. I'm not sure that anyone here would get a CPAP unless you were very poor indeed. We have to buy the CPAP's and anything else that goes with them.
Damian, which leisure battery did you use when you had one.
Our car is fairly packed but we would make room for it if we had to.
A lot of the sites here don't seem to have EHU or they get booked up very quickly if they do.
This leisure battery would be perfectly suitable to run it for an extended period. I would estimate some 80 hours of use would discharge the battery down to about 35-40% which realistically unless you have a very good charger is the most you'd want to discharge such a large leisure battery.
Using that battery with this inverter would be a good combination and would give you a fair bit of power left over to use an extension lead/trailer socket and charge your phone or something. That inverter is also sold in Go Outdoors at £39.99 so you could get them to price match it and save some money.
If money isn't much of an object for you then I would recommend this leisure/car battery charger. It is brilliant and with that charger you could discharge the battery even more down to about 20% or so safely. I accidentally discharged mine fully and it managed to restore it and I didn't lose any capacity but I wouldn't advise doing that regularly.
I understand together that the combination I have shown does work out quite expensive but that would give you absolutely optimum performance.
If money is tight/you want to save I would recommend this battery, the same inverter as above because with GO Outdoors price matching, or even Amazons price it is excellent value for money and then this charger would do okay, although I always recommend CTEK as they are brilliant chargers.
So, if you want performance and can afford it, then the first options are definitely the way to go and they are what I have, if money is a little tight or whatever, the second options saves you around £50 or so, but at the loss of performance.
Hope this helps
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Outfits:
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Vango Icarus 500 (Plus enclosed front canopy)
Hi Gear Solus Horizon 4
Vango Banshee 200
Vango Dart DLX 350
Vango Alpha 250
Yellowstone Alpine 2
Yes, I honestly thought dh would not be able to come.
Mind you, he is more a five-star-hotel kinda guy so maybe he won't be best pleased at me finding all these camping solutions!
A continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine was initially used mainly by patients for the treatment of sleep apnea at home, but now is in widespread use across intensive care units as a form of ventilation. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the upper airway becomes narrow as the muscles relax naturally during sleep. This reduces oxygen in the blood and causes arousal from sleep. The CPAP machine stops this phenomenon by delivering a stream of compressed air via a hose to a nasal pillow, nose mask, full-face mask, or hybrid, splinting the airway (keeping it open under air pressure) so that unobstructed breathing becomes possible, therefore reducing and/or preventing apneas and hypopneas. It is important to understand, however, that it is the air pressure, and not the movement of the air, that prevents the apneas. When the machine is turned on, but prior to the mask being placed on the head, a flow of air comes through the mask. After the mask is placed on the head, it is sealed to the face and the air stops flowing. At this point, it is only the air pressure that accomplishes the desired result. This has the additional benefit of reducing or eliminating the extremely loud snoring that sometimes accompanies sleep apnea
------------- There is a place to hide, it's in our minds.
Outfits:
Hi Gear Kalahari 8 (Plus porch)
Vango Icarus 500 (Plus enclosed front canopy)
Hi Gear Solus Horizon 4
Vango Banshee 200
Vango Dart DLX 350
Vango Alpha 250
Yellowstone Alpine 2
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Topic: Anyone use a CPAP?
