- Good day, everyone.
Thanks for joining me at the workshop today,
otherwise known as my bar.
Normally there's a few more beer cans scattered around,
but today I have a CPAP machine here,
a ResMed AirSense 10
and this machine belongs to a good friend of mine
and he's had it for about four years, he reckons.
And it's just started making
a little bit of a funny noise, he reckons.
So, I haven't actually heard the noise yet,
but I thought what we'll do is
we'll turn it on and have a listen.
And I might actually tear the machine down
and have a look inside
and see if there's anything that can be done.
So this video is not for everyone,
but if you're interested in
sort of seeing what's inside a CPAP machine
and maybe just learning a few things about
potentially what you might be able to do,
if your machine breaks down at some point,
or you're having some technical difficulties
with your machine and it's out of warranty, et cetera,
then stick around.
We'll have a look inside this machine
and I'll talk you through it.
All right, cheers, let's do it.
(upbeat music)
All right, let's just have a little listen
and see if we can pick up on that noise.
Ah yeah, can you hear that?
So that sounds to me like it's a motor issue,
which means it's gonna be virtually impossible to fix,
but we'll take it apart anyway and have a look
and just see if there's perhaps something that can be done.
All right, so the first thing you're going to need to get is
I just picked this up on eBay.
Just got a whole bunch of different little heads.
It's like an electronics kit.
And this one here for the ResMed 10 is a T3 head.
So let's have a look.
I'm just gonna take out the humidifier.
Well, just take off the filter cap, take the filter out,
probably a good time to change your filter.
And then I just take out the SD card.
Just push that in.
So we've got here one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight screws.
These four here are for the humidifier plate.
I'll take them off now.
We don't actually need to take them off
to get inside the machine,
but I'll take this off now anyways,
so you can just have a look.
So this is the humidifier plate here,
this little power cord running into the plate.
There's actually a little fuse here.
So if your humidifier plate stops working,
you might just wanna check
'cause it might be as simple as just replacing
that fuse there.
All right, but that's the little plate there.
We don't actually need to get into that though.
So I'll quickly just put that back on.
All right, so we need to take out these ones here.
Now, what you might wanna do,
if you are gonna take apart your machine and have a look,
just take little photos or a video when you're doing it.
So you can kind of know where everything goes afterwards.
Otherwise, the further down the rabbit hole you get,
it's harder to remember where everything goes,
but it's pretty straightforward this one.
Once we've taken that off, with this one here,
just here, you can see there's a little dent.
You can actually just put your thumb in it
and just peel off the face plate.
Just a bit of plastic faceplate off.
And then you can see here,
we've got a little button and two more screws.
So the button itself just pulls, just pull it off.
Okay, so it just pulls off like so, it's the button.
And then we've got these two screws here.
And now we can basically take off the shell
and the way to do it is you sort of just,
it's just under here,
you sort of pull it from under here like this
and you can pull it up over the top.
All right, so that's just another part of the shell
and now we're starting to get into it.
So basically we just got the circuit board here.
You can see, this is where the SD card goes in
and then we just got our screen control.
If I spin it round, you'll start to see what we've got.
Here's our pump section,
so this is where our motor's enclosed.
And then there's another circuit board on the side here,
which we'll have a look at now.
So basically with this side part here, we can just,
sometimes you just gotta give these things
a little bit of a wiggle, there you go, just wiggles off.
And this one here connects
just to this little part of the circuit board,
and it just literally pops off this part.
So it's like a little press.
So you just sort of put it on and just,
it just presses down and clicks in.
So when you're taking it off,
you literally just sort of flick it off like that.
So here's yet another circuit board.
Like this machine will actually work now,
I can actually plug that in.
So it actually sounds not too bad there.
So we might be all right, let's have a look.
All right, now we're going to take off
this little part here.
Sort of pulls down, you just get your thumb in and just
pull it out.
And then here on the side here, we just,
there's a little thing you just pinch.
See that little part there?
You just pinch, and then you can pull that out.
And once that's done, you can literally,
this is just a little, just pops off.
Okay, so that leaves us now just with the pump.
So let's have a look,
the pump's actually inside this little case in here.
So there's a few more screws we need to take off.
One at the top.
And then once you've actually taken that one out,
you can actually just slide that out.
So that's the only one holding it in up the top there.
And then we just need to take off the outer casing.
Lemme just take that off, it just sort of pulls off.
Just a little bit of insulation foam,
sort of got a little cut out there where the wires come into
and now we're at the business end.
This is what CPAP's all about,
basically just an air pump, all right?
And to get the air pump out,
you first need to just sort of, see these blue things?
You just got to sort of pinch them back in.
Yeah, you got to pinch in these blue tabs.
It's really easy.
You just pinch them in.
You guys aren't really gonna need to do this, most of you,
but some of you might wanna replace a motor
at some point in time or have a fiddle.
And once you've done that, you can take off this,
tune that part there, just pushes through.
And it actually comes.
So this is just like a silicon casing.
And this is where the motor is.
And I'll just remember that the wires just go to the right
of this double sort of tab part.
You got single, single, single, double tab.
And the wires just go to the right side,
so I'll just know where to put the motor back in,
there we go.
And that is the ResMed AirSense 10 air pump.
Brings air in by spinning this around,
pumps it out through this end.
And that's your therapy, right there.
I might connect it up and just so you can,
you can watch it whistle without the other stuff on,
give us a second.
That's pretty much it at the end of the day.
So it looks like a bit of a mess to put back together,
but it's actually really simple.
You just gotta do everything I just did in reverse,
but we might as well just do it really quickly.
And you can sort of see how it's done.
Like I said, if you video yourself doing it,
you kind of can watch it back
or take some photos so you watch it back
so you sorta know the steps and sort of how they're done.
(bright music)
See, it's still got that noise.
And this is, I guess, what I did that previous video on,
which is knowing, you know,
where you are in the cycle of the CPAP machines,
because my mate's one here, it's dead.
He'll obviously want another one
to keep using it over nighttime,
but he might have just gone out
and bought himself another AirSense 10 to replace this one
because it's out of warranty
or spend a lot of money getting it fixed,
when obviously, like I said,
there's probably a new one coming out pretty soon
or, you know, there's some new release machines
of other manufacturers, the DreamStation Two's out.
So that's a perfect example.
So I'll report back to him that, "Your motor's dead,"
and I'll give him, you know,
an option to either put a new motor in it or yeah,
wait around and get an AirSense 11 when they come out
or a DreamStation Two or something else.
But he might wanna just keep this one anyway,
because he's got parts here as well,
he's got a heater plate, you know,
he can use the screen, the buttons, the circuit board.
There's a lot of other stuff in there
that potentially could go wrong
if he did get another AirSense 10, for example,
and he could use this as backup.
All right, take care. (soft music)
I hope you enjoyed the video.
I know it was a bit of a boring one,
but some of you might find it interesting.
All right, see you later.
Have a good day, bye.