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To: BBell

Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.


2 posted on 07/09/2018 2:19:40 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
That was another thought I had. All the ones I have seen are either rechargeable or just a tank with a regulator.

family is seeing dollar signs.

7 posted on 07/09/2018 2:22:22 PM PDT by BBell (es-tu stupide):>()
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To: SkyDancer

No, they exist. My father-in-law, God rest his soul, had one in his last days. Unlike oxygen tanks, they don’t run out of oxygen - I think it processes the air or something.


8 posted on 07/09/2018 2:22:43 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: SkyDancer

“Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.”

Must have been quite a big tank too, if it took a week before it emptied.


14 posted on 07/09/2018 2:24:08 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: SkyDancer

The media calls it a tank but it’s probably a small oxygen generator with a small reserve...not a big tank.


17 posted on 07/09/2018 2:24:32 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: SkyDancer

Oxygen generators are powered by electricity.


19 posted on 07/09/2018 2:25:10 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: SkyDancer

Probably an oxygen concentrator.


20 posted on 07/09/2018 2:25:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: SkyDancer
Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.

Probably an oxygen concentrator. Tanks are usually provided for ambulatory use by the med equipment company. My wife has been on home oxygen for years and the first thing I did was install a generator and have the med supply folks bring oxygen backup tanks. Her family could and should have helped her long before it came down to her dying.

21 posted on 07/09/2018 2:25:44 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.

It's not a tank, it's a machine.

The correct term, here, is Oxygen Concentrator. Details on its operation at Wiki(hah hah)pedia.

And yes, they run on electricity. No, they don't work when the electricity is cut off. Yes, I know more than I want to know about home medical oxygen due to personal experience with a relative.

Now you know something your didn't know this morning.

OBTW, the relative's home is complete with a stand-by generator. And I make sure her utility bill is paid on time.

27 posted on 07/09/2018 2:29:44 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Probably an oxygen concentrator. But if she was that reliant on oxygen, a tank is far more reliable.


29 posted on 07/09/2018 2:30:50 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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Oxygen concentrators run on electricity but pure oxygen for those in critical condition use the bottled gas.


30 posted on 07/09/2018 2:31:35 PM PDT by ChiMark (America America)
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To: SkyDancer

We have one. An electric powered oxygen generator. We also have a engine powered portable generator, just in case.

https://cdn3.volusion.com/j575u.gtsw7/v/vspfiles/photos/Devilbiss-525DS-3.jpg?1412000326


33 posted on 07/09/2018 2:32:43 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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I suspect she had one of these devices


34 posted on 07/09/2018 2:32:52 PM PDT by deport
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To: SkyDancer

Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.


There are machines that make oxygen powered by electricity.


35 posted on 07/09/2018 2:32:52 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Actually, there are. They take oxygen out of the air and concentrate it. Much easier to use than reconnecting one of those big tanks which discharge oxygen by discharging it through an open valve.

Sometimes you see them advertised on TV. The battery powered versions weight about 6 lbs and can be carried like a handbag.

38 posted on 07/09/2018 2:35:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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“Oxygen tank powered by electricity?”

I’m sure it was an Oxygen Concentrator which does rely on Electricity. I just had a Health Equipment Rental Co. Pick up my Mom’s unit after she passed a couple weeks back.


40 posted on 07/09/2018 2:37:15 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: SkyDancer

Oxygen tank powered by electricity? I’ve seen lots of them and none of them were electric powered.

They were using the electric pumps that supply oxygen. They probably meant the oxygen pump quit after power was cut..


41 posted on 07/09/2018 2:39:19 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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Why didn’t the family summon emergency medical help? Even the Fire Department first-response carries oxygen for treating smoke inhalation.

Probably this oxygen concentration type device:

https://www.inogen.com/resources/oxygen-concentrators/how-does-an-oxygen-concentrator-work/


54 posted on 07/09/2018 2:49:03 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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No...you are sort of wrong....

O2 Concentrators..are battery powered....

The only one's I know of are....anyway.

So...if her power was turned off...she could not re-charge her battery,....

62 posted on 07/09/2018 2:56:56 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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Generator, no tank.


63 posted on 07/09/2018 2:59:23 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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Not an oxygen tank ... it is an oxygen concentration device.


70 posted on 07/09/2018 3:11:32 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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