- G'day guys,
Nick here from CPAP reviews again.
Thanks for joining me. Today
we're taking a look at the brand new Lunar G3 machine
just arrived in Australia, not too long ago,
a couple of months,
and I'm super excited to have it with me today.
Now, just for your information,
I've been reviewing these machines for over nine years now,
since 2011.
So I do know my stuff when it comes to the BMC machines.
So in this video,
I'm gonna be doing a little bit of an unbaging
show you what the new machine looks like.
What's included.
And I'm going to talk about the key features of this machine
anyway, enough of me, gas bagging,
let's have a look at what's in the bag.
- Now you might not believe it,
but this is actually the first time
I've ever opened one of these machines.
So you're getting to see it firsthand,
just like me.
- Standard manual power supply, spare filter.
This is the new integrated, hidden achieving.
So you can see this little cord in here now that actually
going to plug into the machine,
but I'll show you this a bit later on.
AC DC power adapter.
This is the new PM. 2.5 filtration, I should say.
So this is going to go on the back of the machine
and sort of like an ultra high density filtration.
So say you might be pretty susceptible to hay fever,
you know, allergens and things like that.
This is gonna be a really good filter for you.
- Here is the heater resistance.
- Oh, it looks good.
Look at that screen, how nice is that?
Hey, nice big screen.
A little click wheel.
And then I noticed a big button on the top here.
That's cool.
It must be on off button.
So you've got no trouble finding that.
Just bang, bang on off.
All right.
So let's have a quick pan around.
So you can really get to say how she looks up front.
It's the humidifier on the side.
So it is an all in one machine and humidifier.
What that means is, you can't sort of separate it
and turn it into just the machine part.
You always will have that humidify section with it there.
Some people like that when you can separate it
so that you can take that off and just carry this part.
If you're traveling just to make it a bit smaller,
a bit lighter, but majority of the manufacturers
are sort of going with this all in one right now.
And the back here, this is where that big filter
is gonna connect to.
So you're gonna take that screen off and put that on.
Then you're gonna have your power cord going in there.
You heated tubing in there and that's for an oximetry.
So if you're one of those people who needs
to measure their oxygen levels in their blood,
you can get an additional oximeter that'll measure that.
And then you heat it to just gonna connect there.
- Pretty damn cool.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
- So here's a new screen.
How beautiful is that?
So it's a whole new user interface,
but really I'm really loving all these icons
and this quick wheel just feels absolutely beautiful.
So I'm just going to press it in and see what we got there.
Yeah, really, really nice.
Easy to choose your mask there,
I'll go through all this sort of stuff in my next tutorial
and had all the patient settings
and how to do the clinical settings.
But it's just good for you to see
that's a really nice screen.
I'm loving that.
Made it really easy for you guys to change
the settings that's for sure and see your data
and all that sort of thing.
So that screen is definitely a nice big improvement.
I do enjoy that.
Alright, so we're gonna have a look now at this section,
which is the humidifier section.
So it has sort of like a new push release.
So you sort of push it down and it sort of clicks up
and then it's just a matter of opening it up.
See there are nice big humidifier base.
It'd be that middle is means a water's
gonna heat up nice and quickly.
You're gonna get instant humidification.
Believe this machine has a preheat function as well.
So you can preheat that humidifier.
So as soon as you go to bed,
you're going to get instant humidification.
You get a little max level on the side.
This is a really good shame, but look, it's nice and open,
very easy to get in there and clean it,
which is really important there.
Super easy to feel, super easy to empty.
And then just literally click that down like, so,
and then this is my first time guys remember,
so just bear with me.
Oh, push it down.
Beautiful.
That's literally gonna be that.
You're just gonna fill it up to the line there,
put your tubing on and then just hit this button on the top
there and away you go.
Alright.
Let's talk about some of the features.
Alright, so it's pretty cool.
So this is the first I've ever done a video
where I'm seeing it for the first time.
Just like you're seeing it.
So I'm going to be winging it a little bit more
than I normally do, but at the same time,
it's something new for me and it's a little bit exciting,
so I'm enjoying it.
So from what I can gather,
some of the main improvements have definitely
been in the humidification side of things
and we'll talk about them.
So it's the first time ever that BMC has included
an integrated heated tube system.
So heated tube system is a copper core
that runs through the tubing.
And that copper coil heats up and it reduces things like
rain out or condensation from happening in the tube
on those colder months.
But it also improves the delivery of the humidity to you.
So it's gonna be a better humidity system
to stop you're drying out through the night,
keep your airway nice and lubricated.
So being integrated,
it draws its power from the actual machine itself,
but also this heated tube system then can monitor the actual
ambient humidity and temperature in the air.
And that machine, if you send it to auto,
it will self regulate the delivery of humidification.
So that through the night,
the humidity levels for the machines producing is actually
changing instead of being a static,
one setting set next night, one sitting set.
So the machine will basically automatically
do all that stuff.
Now I'm a massive fan of that word, automatic,
anytime that it's less for you,
let's say it for me and other C-PAP clinicians.
So great having that feature there.
So that's really cool.
They've also made improvements here
with this humidification chamber.
I love that you can just go push it down.
It's nice and easy pop straight up.
It's got a nice big heater base.
So it's going to warm up really quickly.
They've also done a preheat function with this one.
And what that means is before you go to bed,
you can fill up the water chamber,
hit this little pre heat button
so that when you do go to bed, say 30 minutes later,
you're gonna be getting humidity straight away.
If you don't have that pre-heat function
what will happen is you put your water in.
And by the time that heat applied heats up,
it's like heating up sort of a really slow kettle,
heats up that water starts to vaporize the water.
The water starts to go.
You can be with your machine getting that dry,
non moist air for 30 minutes or so
before the humidity kicks in.
And by then, there's a chance that
you've already got that sort of
raw raspy voice that can sometimes happen with some of you.
Smart auto adjusting pressure treatment.
So basically what this does is it's like a learning machine.
So it will look at your last five nights of data.
And it learns from that to sort of help fine tune the auto
algorithm in terms of how it's treating your sleep apnea.
All these machines have like this automatic,
this auto algorithm,
which essentially takes in all the flow data
from your breathing.
So as you're breathing,
you have this nice sine wave of data.
And then from that, when you're,
when your sine wave or your breathing sort of gets narrowed,
the machine sort of picks up that information.
And then this, the computer basically
adjust the pressure to even all that out.
That's sort of how that auto algorithm is.
And it makes all those calculations
and does all that throughout the night.
So this smart auto algorithm looks at five nights
worth of data and it's sort of always fine tuning itself.
So long story short,
it's gonna give you a better tailored therapy.
Have the option for the integrated SpO2 sensor
to monitor your blood oxygen level.
So you can whack that in there.
It's an additional extra,
I don't know exactly how much it is,
but you plug it in there working on your finger.
If you want to measure your blood oxygen levels,
it has the new fine particle filter,
which is this here the PM2.5.
So this is good if you're highly sensitive
to dust and allergens,
maybe get really bad head fever.
You wet this on the back.
It's just like an extra level of protection from dust.
Your format is to access your data,
your SD card software I code,
which is the application on your smartphone.
And you also have a web based platform.
If you want your data, you can have your data.
Still got the rest, which is the pressure relief function
all the machines have had that.
So I won't go into that.
Five year warranty.
These aren't really features,
but I'll go through some of this sort of stuff.
Five year warranty, it's replacement warranty.
I do want you to be wary.
I mean, one of the things about BMC machines
is that there's so many shady backyard,
garage operators just in Australia.
So, if you're reading this thing and you're like,
"Oh, that looks really cheap. And that looks really good".
Probably, a chance that it's some guy in Sydney
with a whole garage full of these boxes.
So I'll make, just packing up his garage
and move in and saying you can't get onto him anymore.
So just cause it's got a five year warranty
that's with the reseller here.
So that's with whoever you're buying it from.
If they just pack up and go, then you're kind of screwed.
All right.
So just be wary that.
I'll put a link actually in the description
of reliable business, been around forever,
you're gonna get ABN (Australia Business Number) receipt.
You're gonna get guaranteed shipping with tracking.
You're gonna get customer support, online chat,
phone that's going to be answered
and you can have peace of mind.
And you're going to get a really good price as well.
So I'll put a link there and I can vouch for that.
So if they do fold, you can come up to me,
mask wise, the machine will use any mask.
So you can get the BMC mask with it, which you are fine.
I don't really encourage people to start with BMC mask,
how you find it.
But certainly there are some higher end mask
which will pay a bit more for
that might be a little bit more enjoyable to use.
So the BMC mask technology is fine,
but it's not as good as sort of your ResMeds, your Philips,
Fisher Paykels, which made excellent masks.
And it is a really important part of the therapy.
It's the part that makes it comfortable.
There's the part on your face.
So comparatively speaking,
compared to your ResMed's, any other ones,
it's like chalk and cheese in terms of price.
And then it's just an absolute bargain and you're not
missing out or anything.
In fact, this is gonna have some features
that those don't have,
noise level, very comparative to those machines.
Usability, really easy to use.
It's so easy to fill up that chamber.
So easy now to change the settings with this lovely user
interface, with that big screen.
And also just that one button at the top.
Look, it's this huge big button.
Just boom, press it and it's on.
So I'll just hold it up so you can sort of hear it.
Solid.
Solid as they come.
Anyway, I hope this has been informative for you.
This is just part one.
I'm gonna do patient settings,
clinical settings, like I always do.
So stay tuned.
And I've got a ton of new stuff.
There's heaps, new masks coming out.
There's a new one from Fisher Paykel called Evora,
There is a new F30i.
So heaps of new videos coming your way.
As always, thanks for watching.
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All the best.
Good luck with Valentine's day coming up.
Maybe you can shut the old C-PAP machine
in the cupboard for that night.
All right, take care.
Signing out, cheers.