Cpaps and dry camping

2oldman wrote:

srt20 wrote:
We stay in a wall tent when we go hunting in the mountains, so we don't even have a camper.

Can you hear the cpap?

Yes. But with 5 or so guys in a 20 ft wall tent, you wear earplugs at night if you don't want to hear everybody snoring. That or fall asleep before anybody else. LOL

"cpap machine that uses 1.2 A apiece"

Other posters say different amp use. Are you sure 1.2 each?

So the total amp draw is 30 or so? Not a significant recharge issue on sunny days with a 300 to 400 watt solar system. I'm not "screwed" on cloudy days since I have, and you should have, a back up generator.

srt20 wrote:
We stay in a wall tent when we go hunting in the mountains, so we don't even have a camper.

Can you hear the cpap?

I don't know anything about them other then, a guy I hunt with uses a cpap. He brings along a full-size car battery and a small genny with a charger and charges it for a while during the day.

We stay in a wall tent when we go hunting in the mountains, so we don't even have a camper.

kerrlakeroo wrote:
Check on it, many CPAP and BIPAP units are actually 12 volt. DW and I both use one and both of our units are 12 volt. Mine is an unheated basic CPAP which apparently draws about 1.5 amps and hers is a BIPAP drawing about 3.1 Amps . Both of our machines are Philips Respironics and the 12 Volt cords are avail from the Mfr website.

I have the same brand. It is 12 volts with a 120 volt unit for in the house. Uses 6.6 amps with heated humidifier unit. I turn off humidifier unit option when in the RV. Then uses 2.0 amps.

darsben1 wrote:
If you use a genny and hook it to the electric cord from your rig the outlets should work.
Will you be camping near people who may object to the genny being on at night?
Be nice if we knew if the CPAP has a puck in the cord or is it just a straight cord.

What is a puck in the cord?

OP, as mentioned above, yes you can use your generator to recharge the batteries, and no, I would not rely on solar panels as you may not always have a nice bright sun...then you're screwed.

Personally, I just got a 12v adapter cord for mine and used the rv batteries for power all night. Then I use the generator to recharge the rv batteries the next day during times that generators are allowed.

Ron

Check on it, many CPAP and BIPAP units are actually 12 volt. DW and I both use one and both of our units are 12 volt. Mine is an unheated basic CPAP which apparently draws about 1.5 amps and hers is a BIPAP drawing about 3.1 Amps . Both of our machines are Philips Respironics and the 12 Volt cords are avail from the Mfr website.
By using them this way the same batteries we are recharging anyway are handling the CPAP units and the trailer batteries recharge faster than the little specialty batteries from the med suppliers. But if yo are more comfortable using the secondary units made for your machines install an inverter to power the rechargers, and just run the genny to top off the trailer batteries after the secondary system is done.

If you use a genny and hook it to the electric cord from your rig the outlets should work.
Will you be camping near people who may object to the genny being on at night?
Be nice if we knew if the CPAP has a puck in the cord or is it just a straight cord.

This tutorial may be of some help. 12v side of life.

Get some basic knowledge first so the answers make sense to you.