Hello all - As my sister-in-law needs her breathing machine at night is a generator suitable for these machines. They hope to go up the Canning - any advice would be most welcome - thank you.
Rather than rely on a generator (and in some areas annoy neighbours) why not consider 12 volt power?
I think most of the machines nowadays will run on 12v which is quiet and reliable as long as you have solar or car to charge the battery.
I have seen 12v power leads for Phillips and Resmed machines, if you search google for "cpap 12v" you will see the myriad machines available.
Cheers Vince
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Lots on here and other travelling forums will give pages of good info on those things
and how to power them off grid.
Whichever way you go.
ALWAYS have a small genny.
Then if\when, aC\DC where you are, stops.
You KNOW you alright with genny and charger for battery's.
Always buy around a 25a Charger (4 way is fine- Semi smart with float)
with a genny.
Then you can combine genny outputs when running AC for elect kettle. frypan Microwave etc.
with the DC battery charger.
Cook dinner while charging battery's at same time.
Always pay the bit extra to buy the combination output..
A small 1-1.2kva will do 95% of power for most, unless they want air cond.
then a minimum of 2.2 to run it in all climes.(Yamaha do a good one 2.2kva.
Yrs ago, we had a .75kva Yamaha genny on yacht (live aboard).
When away from mains and only having minimal solar
(35\40w were LARGEST panels in those days)and a wind genny.
My petrol genny with 25a charger for batt's.
Use Mains outlet for kettle/frypan etc.every fourth night.
on at tea. off 4ish hrs later.
Supplied with the solar. enuff for another 4 day cycle. Then start again.
I cannot emphasise enuff.
unless you have large rig and lotsa panels,AGM batt's.
the normal person can only Guarantee complete power supply under all situations.
If he has a genny.
You can have a thousand watts of panels/battery's.
If it rains and is heavy cloud for a week or two,
Which it can regularly up here.
You'll have flat battery's if off mains.
I can remember at the beginning of solar.
trying to get and keep things running with 5 and 10w panels. (the largest. and exxy as.)
My first 2 x 40w BP's cost me around $650 each. First 80w was over a grand.
They cheap as nowadays. recently bought a 200w panel for $220 del.
That'd feed her C-Pap with a 80\100w battery.
Till sun goes away for a while.
We don't know how lucky we are nowadays believe me.
And tell her to go for a Honda "powered" genny. Cheaper than the full honda unit.
Good. But overpriced. you can buy others for half their price, and less.
That give same outputforyears too.
My last Honda powered 1.8kva Genny lasted me 30 yrs and still running.
I paid $1150.
and some of the chinese genny's are 1\4 the price still being reliable.
Mine is after 4 yrs (probably nearer 6 now) cost $470ish and 3.3 kva
If they have air cond. get a bigger genny to run Air cond.
It's sooo nice when you can't breathe in the sticky.(I only have one working lung)
It catches up occasionally.
the cool air really feels good on your intake valves believe me.
yep, 12V lead fine for CPAP. We have a small van. 210W solar panels, 100amp battery (1) and Devilbiss DV5HH CPAP (very quiet) and Waeco CF18 small chest fridge. Little else but we do turn off the fridge for a few hours at night.
However, we cant add a battery or jenny as we have weight restriction. We put the smart charger on at a CPark once a week to top up but rarely necessary.
-- Edited by Eaglemax on Monday 12th of December 2016 09:23:30 PM
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