<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Bob, </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not going to die if the ventilator fails but I use it on a daily basis non-invasively. I am disabled. I can go without it for hours but it</div><div>does start to affect my volume speaking, energy levels, etc, the longer I go without it. </div><div><br></div><div>So I'm not going to do the chest strap because that would be super uncomfortable and would affect my lung expansion.. and I'm not going to hack the ventilator either. At most, the circuit tube could be modified, but again not in a way that would change the volume pressure / air flow. That's why I don't think the reed type switch would work very well. </div><div><br></div><div>The ventilator has it's own internal battery but it is usually plugged into the A/C. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not worried about it failing. </div><div><br></div><div>People have been coming up with good solutions that don't require messing with the ventilator.. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br><div><div>On 15-Mar-13, at 1:56 PM, Bob wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">“and it will be in a life support capacity”.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">So, just to clarify, if the ventilator fails, you die? Are you serious? That may have been something to mention up front, I’m sure people who were thinking of tapping into the ventilator electronics may have had second thoughts…<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I assume then you have some sort of UPS attached…<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Gee, talk about scope creep 8-)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Bob<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Lab@artengine.ca</a><br><a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>