Anyone travel with an LVAD heart pump?
Anyone travel with an LVAD heart pump? Looks like we may be facing that and I'm curious if anyone had issues with it operating on inverter or generator?
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Well just to close on this - DW just received the Heartware HVAD, and with this particular manufacture's upgraded control system, it operates on 2 batteries at a time (primary and standby), or AC and one battery on standby, so with AC fail she has 6-7 hours of power and it alarms to wake her up (no sleeping on batteries :) ). They provide 8 batteries.
Spoke with the Rep who called the manufacturer Friday and the AC consist of a 15V - 4A transformer so the AC side is pretty tolerant as it buffers the output somewhat. They said the pure sine wave from the inverter and generator are more than perfect.
Not saying we would ever go off the grid with this, but if we lose power on one of our outings, I'm not going to damage her controller with the MH inverter or generator which was one of my original concerns.
Spoke with the Rep who called the manufacturer Friday and the AC consist of a 15V - 4A transformer so the AC side is pretty tolerant as it buffers the output somewhat. They said the pure sine wave from the inverter and generator are more than perfect.
Not saying we would ever go off the grid with this, but if we lose power on one of our outings, I'm not going to damage her controller with the MH inverter or generator which was one of my original concerns.
