Just a public service announcement as far as the “prescription required” nonsense they will throw at you to justify charging you five times to ten times the going rate.
First: any oxygen you buy from any company comes from the same fill plant. The only difference is that the “medical oxygen” comes with a form that says what the purity level is. When I get oxygen delivered to the farm, that truck just delivered to the hospital. Industrial is the same stuff as medical. Get you an industrial “K” bottle (tell ‘‘em you need it for your welder) to keep at home for backup. Should be about a $100 bill, and it holds about 7,000 liters when full, enough to keep you at 2 lpm for over 48 hrs in case of equipment failure or power outage and can be replaced at any welding supply house.
Second, you don’t need a “medical grade” oxygen concentrator: again, the “non medical grade” ones are the same, produce the same % oxygen, just without the paper trail. At a fraction of the cost, and none of the hassle.
The whole thing is a racket, like insurance rates for windshields.
I have a K bottle in the shop. I would not breathe anything that came out of those bottles. When I go to get a refill. I see the way they are handled and filled. In order to get Department of Labor to pay for mine, I must have doctor submit a form of Medical Necessity to get it approved and I must do it every year. They pay 100%. The medical grade concentrators and bottles are sterilize before delivered. Shop grade are not.
Self medicating with O2 can be as dangerous as self medicating with other drugs
