Camping with oxygen?

HOw many liters are you needing?
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Lynn

Could you use small cylinders while camping? That would remove the thumping, and the large device, and the extra electrical demand.

been traveling with oxygen for a couple of years in the summer we put the unit in the living room and and in the winter in the bedroom, because of the heat it puts off. never worried about the propane gas.

Respironics has the Everflo Q (for quiet)which weighs about 30 lbs and is reasonably compact. This is about as quiet as they get - still noisy. Their Simplygo is a portable which weighs about 10 lbs and puts out 2 l/min max. Both can be ordered from Amazon under industrial supplies. You would have to check their website for power requirement.

Check out the Inogen One.It's a small battery-operated concentrator. I've been using mine over two years with no problems at all. I don't leave pilot lights on anyway (too many years on boats), so I never give the propane a thought. I have Medicare and a supplement, so there was no cost to me. Get the double batteries, it comes with 12Vdc and 115vac chargers. I think you'll be pleased. Except as a satisfied user, I have no connection with this company. BTW, the flame for your frig is outside.

There should be no real danger with an oxygen concentrator and pilot lights etc. in the same structure. The oxygen concentrator only extracts/filters oxygen present in the air and provides it to you in greater concentration, correspondingly reducing the oxygen in the air it exhausts back to the room. The only areas where there's any elevated oxygen levels are between the machine and you. (An oxygen cylinder may well be a different matter in terms of safety; certainly I'd have more concern with one.)

From an ignition point of view, an electric heater may not be particularly safer than a pilot light or fridge burner or furnace anyhow; the thermostatic switch is often not sealed and can spark when it opens or closes. You'd also be more likely to have the heater near you and your equipment, rather than rather more distant (for an oven pilot) or outside the living area (for the water heater, furnace, and fridge burners).

Exactly why I asked about liters needed. My wife needs at least a setting of six liters for daytime use at ~5000 feet, so we got her the InogenOne G2, which maxes at a setting of 6. Nice, small, battery powered, etc. Of course, the G2 is also heavier at 7 pounds. Other models provide for less oxygen and are, of course, not as heavy.

Inogen machines are great, but they're not that cheap. We paid around $3.5K for the unit with all bells and whistles; it had to come out of our pockets as the insurance wouldn't pay for it. It was still well worth the investment!

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Lynn

Fish 'n ' Grits wrote:
Check out the Inogen One.It's a small battery-operated concentrator. I've been using mine over two years with no problems at all. I don't leave pilot lights on anyway (too many years on boats), so I never give the propane a thought. I have Medicare and a supplement, so there was no cost to me. Get the double batteries, it comes with 12Vdc and 115vac chargers. I think you'll be pleased. Except as a satisfied user, I have no connection with this company. BTW, the flame for your frig is outside.

DW has the Respronics Everflow Q which is quiet enough for us. At home it’s in the closet and I ran a tube through the wall. In the MH it’s in the open closet. It’s a power hog at 3.0A AC and hence requires planning for overnight use ie about 33A DC which is about 50% overnight battery bank discharge for the current 4xGC2 batteries with just the oxygen machine. No problem when on shore power of course. It generates substantial overnight heat which is one reason the closet door is partially open. The closet is next to the bed but we quickly adapted to the noise. It’s also heavy to move in/out of the MH. For other reasons I bought a wagon but it certainly makes moving the oxygen machine and all other MH stuff quicker and easier.

We also have a pricey Activox LifeChoice portable machine which only uses 6.0A DC or about 12% battery discharge overnight.

No concern about pilot lights.

BTW For some time we had the Respronics unit up front in the MH but tried the closet and found the noise acceptable.

Good point about out of pocket expense. We started with oxygen tanks that were no cost and but not as portable as we wanted. But the bigger problem was getting refills as we traveled in multiple states for several months. Your mileage may vary...