Charlene — and others who may need oxygen during car travel.

I discovered that it is fairly easy and cheap to be able to plug your regular home concentrator into your car.  For less than $100, an auto-parts store will sell you an “Inverter”, a book-sized gadget with connectors to the car battery, and wires to the device back inside the car. … Read more

Charlene, I hope I didn’t make a bigger deal out of that 1/2 ratio between continuous and pulsed flow!  That number is more of the “if I didn’t have any individual’s measurement, it would be my best guess of the effect.”  The effect of pulsed oxygen delivery varies greatly from person to person, AND from time-to-time.  As you know, some of us… Read more

There is at least 1, the Respironics SimplyGo Pro.  I am not aware of anything that is less than 18 Lbs (and needs spare batteries etc that push the weight up to about 25 Lbs.  I quit flying when my SimplyGo was no longer enough for me, with its 2 LPM.  (If I absolutely have to fly I’ll rent one of the big ones.)  I think there is an Equinox … Read more

There is a big mistake going on in this discussion.  It is very common because the Portable Oxygen Concentrator manufacturers and sales have confused the issue.  Almost none of the POC’s mentioned in the discussion deliver in “Liters Per Minute,” lpm.  That can only be applied to continuous flow.  Even the very best (in most informed opinions)… Read more