- What's up guys,
Nick here from CPAP reviews.
It's great to be with you.
Now one of the most common questions I always get asked
when it comes to travel CPAP machines
is How noisy are they?
And the truth is they are a little bit noisier
than your full size CPAP machines,
but it's not that much of a difference.
And I thought it would be a great experiment
to get the top three selling travel CPAP machines,
and then get a decibel meter and actually get
some data for you.
Now all these manufacturers don't normally
give you their own data.
Now it's a bit sneaky the way they do that
and the way they do the measurements,
and it's not a great accurate representation
of real life noise.
So what I thought I'd do is get
the three travel CPAP machines here I've got
the Philips dream station go,
the res mid air mini and the Z2 auto from Breas
and I'm going to be using the same resmed P10 mask.
I think this is a great mask for travel CPAP machines,
it does actually make a difference which mask use
as the noise level.
And I think this is a great quiet one to use.
And I'm going to be running the machines at 5, 10, 15
and 20.
And I'm going to record that data so you can see exactly
how noisy they are each one.
And then also,
what we're going to do is I'm going
to get this microphone that I use,
which is very sensitive,
I'm going to put it right up to the machine,
record a little bit of the noise from each machine,
so you can get a bit of a profile on the noise
the different machines make.
And then to finish off,
I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on
how you can actually minimize the noise
from these machines.
So that you can get the most quiet
and best night's sleep possible
if you are using one of these travel CPAP machines.
All right,
well,
let's get to it.
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Alright guys,
now I said I'll give you a few little pointers
on how to reduce the ambient noise
from your travel CPAP machine.
The first tip I'm going to give you is that,
if your machine has a pressure relief setting,
try and keep that on the lowest number possible.
The higher you have that pressure relief sitting,
the more noise you're going
to get from your travel CPAP machine.
The second tip I'm going to give you
is a little bit controversial,
but you need to learn how to adjust your pressure limits,
on your automatic travel CPAP machines.
And you want to try and bring that top cap the upper,
limit the max limit down as low as possible.
Okay,
now I'm going to give you an example here.
Let's just say in order to control 95%
of your sleep apnea at home,
normally you need 15 centimeters of pressure.
Now,
if I told you that if I put you
on 10 centimeters instead of 15,
you're going to get 80% control instead of 95% control,
but the noise level is going to be reduced by say 40%.
I think that's a good win right there.
Okay,
you might not be getting the most perfect sleep,
but you're still going to get a really good sleep.
You're still not gonna have any snoring
and have minimal sleep apnea,
but you've reduced the noise
of your CPAP machine dramatically,
and your mask is also going to see at whole lot better.
So monitor your sleep data,
have a look at your apnea hypopnea index.
And if,
if it's within a relatively healthy range sort
of 5 ,10, 15, then you pretty good,
you can keep bringing that pressure down.
If you're getting above 20,
it's going to be,
you know,
into the moderate range,
you probably don't want to be there.
So try and keep it sort of below 15.
But if it's only for a short period of time,
maybe you're going you know,
traveling overseas for a short period
of time or going camping,
you might just want to bring that limit down
that max limit down cap that upper limit pressure,
and that way machine's gonna run much quieter.
Plus your mask is going to see a whole lot better
as well and you'll probably find the therapy
a whole lot more enjoyable,
just as a whole.
Okay,
so that's my little tip for you there.
Third tip is the mask it actually makes a difference
with these machines.
Those hollow tube ones that connected the top
of the head the dream way.
The entity is a few other ones.
They can be quite noisy with the travel CPAP machines
and the reason is the air really shoots up the tube
with these little machines,
and it shoots up beside these there
and it can be a bit noisy.
I'll put a link in the description of some masks
that really work well with these machines.
Some nice really quiet ones,
so nice light ones,
that are going to go great
with the travel CPAP options.
Fourth one
it's pretty simple,
don't know the machine too close to ear.
Obviously,
you know,
you can put them anywhere,
put them here,
put them there as long as they've got air flow,
they can flow into the motor you're going
to be pretty sweet.
so just you know move them around get to me plugs
for the missus if she needs them.
But look apart from that,
they're really not that different from your full size units,
especially at that sort of sub 10 level.
Once they get above them.
They can get a little bit noisier
but they're really quite good.
Okay,
so Oh,
one more thing as well.
The Q tube that comes with the Z two,
you can use them with other travel CPAP machines,
not the many unless you get a little depth to think for it,
but that's a CPAP muffler and it really reduces
the noise that travels up through the tubing.
Okay,
so it's not just the machine noise,
there's noise that shows up through the tubing.
That reduces that quite significantly as well that muffler.
But yeah,
anyway,
I hope those tips helped you and cheers.
Alright guys,
we're back.
Thanks for sticking with me.
Now I'm going to quickly run through
the different average volume levels
of the different machines at the different pressure levels
that I just did.
And I'm going to put more detailed data
in the description of the video,
okay,
but just the average levels to begin with.
So starting at five centimeters,
so very low in the pressure levels,
we're going to start with the AirMini and work away across,
the AirMini coming in at 46 decibels average,
the dreamstation go at 47 decibels average and the Z two
at 40 decibel average.
So at the lower levels of the pressure.
We're starting with the Z toward the quietest next resmed
and then the dreamstation go and I could
certainly hear that I could definitely hear
that the dreamstation go was louder,
going to 10 centimeters.
So in the mid range now 50 decibels
for the AirMini 52 decibel average for the dreamstation go,
and 45 decibel average for the Z two.
So the Z two still being a little bit quieter there.
Just remember the Z two does also have a cue tube muffler
on the end of it.
So it is like a bit more of a silencer
on that machine going into the mid upper levels now,
so 15 centimeters of pressure ,
the resmed stated 50 Okay,
it didn't go any higher.
The dreamstation crept up a little bit further
to 55 decibel average and in the Z two
at a 49 decibel average.
So now that we're in the upper limits,
the Z two and the AirMini are roughly the same
with the dreamstation go just a little bit higher still.
And then getting to the max level,
so not many of you are going to be on 20
if you are well done.
(laugh)
You must snore like a trooper.
But coming into that once again the resmed
has stayed around the same stayed at 51 decibels.
The dreamstation go crept up another couple 257 decibels,
and the Z two at 53 decibel.
So now the Z two is actually a little bit noisier
at this upper limit,
compared to the Dre,
the AirMini so the AirMini seems to hit a point
where it just doesn't really go up
in noise even when you go up in pressure,
I think the motor sort sounds the same.
And I could hear that as well.
Whereas the Z two definitely quieter at those lower
to mid range pressures.
And then when it gets up to those super high pressures,
I could hear and have a bit more of a pitch
to the resmed there as well.
And then the dreamstation goes definitely noisier
across the board.
So anyway,
guys,
I hope that's a
useful information for you.
It was a little bit boring for me to do to be honest,
but at the same time,
it certainly was interesting
to measure up these different machines with the same mass,
the same settings just to hear the differences.
And I hope it's beneficial for you in some point.
Also,
I'd be doing really well I know it's a bit crazy
at the moment with all this Coronavirus stuff,
but just do it.
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Just to give you a bit more knowledge or when it comes
to CPAP stuff.
And anyway,
that's it for now.
Take care,
hope you and your families well.
All the best. Cheers.