I usually use a Spectra 2 but is not portable and it's nice to just leave it at home. So I use a PISA at work. It's fine for the 3 days a week I'm in the office.
I bought a battery pack and car adaptor hoping to use the PISA when traveling. Neither seemed to have hardly any suction! Is that normal? I couldn't use it at all and used a manual pump.
Just wondering if I was doing something wrong or if that is normal.
I haven't used the battery pack since DD was a baby, but I do remember the suction being way less on the PISA with it. In cars, I have just used the manual pump.
I used my PISA with a battery pack and it was just fine. The batteries didn't last very long (maybe 6-8 pumping sessions?) before the pump lost some suction, but while the batteries were fresh, it was fine.
Post by badtzmaru22 on Aug 14, 2015 14:05:54 GMT -5
I did notice much lighter suction with the battery pack, but I regularly pump on a very low setting anyway, so I had room to crank it up. I usually just used the wall plug into a plug adapter (not the specific car pump adapter) when I had to pump in my car.
When you say the Spectra is not portable, is that because you have to plug it in? Or are there other features making it difficult to use other than at home? I was planning to get that one and I would use it at work. I would likely leave it there and can plug it in. Do you think that would work?
Post by patches31709 on Aug 14, 2015 19:14:02 GMT -5
I know with the car adapter for the PISA, you need to turn the suction up a lot higher because it doesn't have as much power or something. I'm sure the battery pack is the same.