Carbon Monoxide Measurements

[Darwin Maring]

Here is what my CO alarm states. Nighthawk by Kidde:

11-35 ppm: Ventilate your home – monitor the unit for raising CO levels.

35-100 ppm: Ventilate your home – call a qualified service technician to inspect for possible sources of Carbon Monoxide.

100+ ppm: If no “flu-like” symptoms are being experienced, follow the previous procedures.

If ‘flue like” symptoms are being experienced…
Immediately evacuate the premises.
Call 911 or your local fire department.
Do not re-enter your home until the problem is corrected.

[Loren G. Hedahl]

If you are answering your own postings, me thinks you must not be quite dead yet, so any thoughts on getting a life are premature at best and entirely irrational at the other end of the spectrum.

Now, what was the problem?

Oh yeah! CO detector making too much fuss. We've got one of those too. Had it mounted in dead air space above the front bunk. I took it apart and clipped the wire to the noise maker temporarily, then was able to watch the digital readout.

Operating the cook top burners annoyed it the most, but the level just rose slightly above the alarm trip point and no further. YMMV.

So relocating the CO detector is on my to-do list, near the top, I might add!

[Kurt in BC]

This CO Detector......I looked up on Ebay but only saw the plug in type....is yours battery operated, or is it a plug in model that you have chosen to just run off the battery "power outage option" ? I want to get a digital read out one myself.

thanks

[Parker Buckley]

This CO Detector......I looked up on Ebay but only saw the plug in type....is yours battery operated, or is it a plug in model that you have chosen to just run off the battery "power outage option" ? I want to get a digital read out one myself.

thanks

Mine is the Atwood 900-0140, made by Kidde. I ordered it from PPL. Here's a link to it:

http://www.pplmotorhomes.com/parts/lp-gas/...co-detector.htm

I don't know if it will work, or if you'll have to paste the address into your browser.

It runs on three AAA batteries. The propane detector is hard-wired in. Since the CO detector generally is mounted higher, I didn't want to have to run wires up to it. As it turns out, I'm glad it can be moved around.

Good luck!
Parker