- G'day everyone, Nick here from CPAP Reviews.
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I'm sure that many of you have found out the hard way
that CPAP isn't cheap.
I'm sure a few jaws have dropped the ground
when clinics have told you the price
and the little accessories and things like that,
I know it's hard to swallow,
but unfortunately, that's what we have to deal with
here in Australia, it's quite a high RRP on the products.
And there's not a whole lot of margin in it
for the resellers to drop those by too much, okay.
But obviously you can hunt around online
and find some good deals and just do the best you can
to not break the bank.
And when it comes to not breaking the bank,
today, I'm going to talk about a machine
that is the lower end of the price range,
but at the same time represents very good value
and it's a very good quality machine.
So when it comes to buying automatic machines,
you generally have your really high end ones
which are your Phillips, your ResMeds,
your Fisher and Paykels.
And they retail North of $2,000 for an automatic machine
with humidifier, so upwards,
$2,500 retail for a Phillips stream station.
And a lot of you who are watching these videos now don't
have that sort of money.
They got budgets and things to stick by.
They don't have $2,000 to spend on a fancy sleep machine.
All right, so this is where some
of these other brands come in.
That's of a really good value for money,
but also you're not sacrificing too much quality.
So this machine in particular,
I'm going to talk about today is
the BMC Luna machine.
You can pick them up for under a $1,000.
All right, and I'm going to go through and do this video
in about three parts, I think,
because it's a little bit to go through.
So I'll stop.
I'll just go on through the machine and just showing a
little bit about it,
just putting it together and how it's operated.
And then I'll go through and do one
on just the patient setting.
So looking down at the screen,
so you can just sort of say how I operate and to change the
settings of the machine.
And then three,
I'm going to go in and show you how you can actually
download the data from this machine.
So you can look at what your sleep is actually like,
in the nighttime and make sure that the therapy is doing its
job and treating your sleep apnea. And then how to, I guess,
to adjust the therapy in terms of the pressure,
if it's not, all right.
So three parts, maybe four,
but we'll just see how we go.
So without further ado,
let's have a look and say what we've got inside the bag,
and then we can not put it together
and have a bit of a play.
So it does come in this nice sturdy bag,
as you can see it's quite a large system.
So if you are someone that is traveling frequently,
it's probably not going to be ideal for you.
Cause it is,
you can see quite a big carry case there.
So it is a little bit bigger in size,
but you can also run it without the humidifier.
So you can take the humidifier chamber section off,
which makes it smaller and more portable for travel.
Let's have a look, let's open it up. So I do like this case.
Some other companies make small cases,
but it's annoying cause you can't really get everything in,
especially, you know,
you do have a couple of masks or,
you know, a few other bits and pieces like battery or
something like that. This is quite a nice big case.
So you got plenty of room in here, plenty of compartment
space for your masks and things like that.
You got your tubing that sort of sits in at the back there.
And then you've got your two sections of the machine
in the front.
Okay, the humidifier over here.
And then you got your pump section over here
with your nice big screen.
So let's get it out and put it together.
So the components I'm going to need here is the tubing,
your machine humidifier, and I've already got
the power cord set up here.
So the very first thing that I do
is just put the two pieces together.
So we have a humidifier section over here and then the
section that has the screen and the buttons on it,
we're just going to basically just push them together.
So they just sort of sort of putting them together,
click them, to take them apart
there's a button on the back here.
We just basically just press and the buttons come apart.
So when I was saying before,
you can run this machine without the humidifier,
you just attach your tubing to here.
Okay, so just don't leave that part away
and just run it straight
from your machine. All right, but today we're going
to run it with the humidifier.
So just put the two pieces together.
And that's your unit, right?
So it's still a little bit of a pan around here.
So you can see,
that's your inlet there where your filter is.
It's that little button I was talking about before to
disconnect it, and you've got up at the top here,
your power port,
a little USB port and an SD card, those sort of things.
All right, so now that we've got it here,
I'm just going to connect the power to the back.
So when you're connecting the power to the back,
It can only in one way.
So it's not too confusing.
Push that into the back there, grab your tubing.
And this is standard tubing.
It comes with standard tubing and what standard tubing
means, it's a standard in diameter.
So it's the, the 20, 20 mil tubing,
not the 15 mil tube, which is the thin tubing,
nothing wrong with 20 mil, it's fine.
But it's also standard that it's not heated.
And what that means is it doesn't have a copper coil that
runs through the tubing.
Like some of the other fancy machines have.
So some of the high end ones have what we call a heated tube
system, this is just a standard shoe system, which is fine.
You know, people have been using
standardized systems for forever.
You can, if you want to get what's called
a Hybernite heated tube
system for this machine,
they're between about 150 Australian dollars.
And that is like an external heated tube.
So it works the same way,
but a copper coil runs through it.
You plug it into just a wall socket at home and that has its
own little power supply.
So that'll work.
Another thing you can do, if you want,
just you can buy these tube cozies,
which are like insulated sort of covers for the tubing
and that way it'll keep the tube insulated as well.
And get the air inside of the tube
out away from the outside cold temperature,
especially you're in like where we are at the moment,
Melbourne, just coming into winter and it is starting to
get cold and we're already getting the phone calls of people
trying to run a lot of humidification
and getting condensation.
But that's, we'll talk about that another time.
So what we're going to do here, both ends are exactly the
same, all right.
And we're just going to put one end onto the machine under
the humidifier here.
This sorta thing swivels around which is handy.
And then the other end is going to go onto our mask,
which I'll put on in a minute, just to show you sort of how,
how that works.
Once we got the tubing on the next step we're going to do
before operating is fill up what they call the
H60 humidifier chamber.
And to do that, there's a little button on the front,
just here, if you press that button,
the lid pops up and we can pull out our little chamber.
So this is our water chamber here.
It's quite a unique water chamber in the sense that it's
actually got two compartments in it.
And what that does is this middle
compartment doesn't actually get water in it.
So that keeps its water free and it heats up and creates
heat in the air, which is really handy.
And so that way you get moisture and heat in the air.
And that's, that's a really cool feature of this machine.
I really like that.
So to, to fill this chamber up, this is new,
so it's got a sticker on it.
So just pull that sticker off.
It's got at the bottom here, a little cap.
That's where we're going to fill the water up.
So what we do is we just rotate that cap.
The cap comes off and then we just fill it up here.
Just get yourself some distilled water from the supermarket.
And you just fill it up there just below the max level,
all right, there's a little level on the side there.
It says max.
Okay, just make sure you don't go over the max there.
Maybe a couple of mil below the max is fine.
And then you just put your little cap back on,
tighten it up it, put it back over,
and place it back in.
Once that's in it's pretty much ready to go.
This machine's got a lovely,
big frequent five inch LCD color screen on it.
That's definitely a really nice feature of it.
Everything's nice and bright on the screen,
when I turn it on.
I'm not sure if you can see that screen there,
there's a really nice, bright LCD screen.
You can see everything that's going on in the screen.
And it's also super easy to change the settings because the
interface itself and the UI system is really intuitive and
easy to use.
I think they've copied it from someone else,
but at the same time,
it just means it really nice
and easy to change the settings,
to change the humidification levels, to look at your data.
Everything's nice and big on this big 3.5 inch color,
LCD screen, all right.
So once we filled up the chamber with water,
we're pretty much ready to go.
All we gotta do is just grab our CPAP mask and connect it
to the other end of the tubing.
And then with the, the other part with the mask you put on,
put that on like that, this is a nasal pillow mask.
It's just at the nostrils there,
it's not the most prettiest thing in the world, but I,
then all we do with this one is we just hit
the middle button.
It does have an auto on feature,
which you can turn on, but just to turn on today,
just hit the middle button.
And it's starting.
So that's on.
That's working now.
It is a quiet machine.
I'll put that up.
You probably can't hear it,
it's only running on four centimeters.
But it is a really quiet machine.
Some people have the opinion that if they're gonna get a
lower price machine, that it's going to be really noisy,
not the case.
Really, really quiet.
Just as quiet as the other ones, more expensive ones.
So that's pretty much how easy it is in terms of
to set up and use.
So the, when we talk about like,
why would you get a BMC Luna?
One of the main things is definitely cost, okay.
That the cost of them is about half of what you're going to
pay for another machine.
So if you are on a budget or you're low income owner
or you're on disability pension or whatever it is,
and you need to get yourself a CPAP machine,
this is something you'd look at.
Alright, an automatic machine.
So automatically under a thousand dollars
is a really good deal.
And normally to pick them up with masks and stuff included
like in bundles and things like that.
So that's number one, definitely cost.
Number two is the actual features of
this machine are very similar to other machines as well.
They've got great data systems.
They've got a great humidification systems.
It's nice and easy to clean.
They come with a good warranty, the screen,
and the in terms of just operating
the machine is dead simple.
You really just fill it up,
hit the button and you're done.
But yeah, having that nice big screen there is really great.
And, and also you can run this machine
with a battery system.
So it's a 24 volt machine,
but you can pick up 24 volt lithium ion batteries
for this machine itself.
So if you lost someone who wants to go camping or whatever,
you can use this machine with a battery and you can head
over to battery, c.batteries.com.au.
And they do have great battery systems
for all sorts of machines.
So check out those guys
and I do some of their videos too, disclaimer there.
So yeah, so that's part one of the series,
just showing you sort of how it works and,
and having it put together now going to part two.
So yeah, if you wanna check out part two,
you can just click on,
I think it's up,
links going to come up here and that'll take
you to part two and I'll put another link up here to where
you can buy the machine from, all right.
Cheers for watching and check out part two in terms of the
actual screen and how to change user settings.
Cheers. Bye.