CO alarm
- Lightning
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I completely agree. Even if the air is completely stagnant it's so close to being buoyant that it would diffuse evenly thru the room just because of gas physics, but that's a longer story lol. It's not likely (or maybe not even possible?) that there would a high enough concentration in one part of the house to be lethal and at the same time below detection in another part of the house provided air can move freely. That's my understanding anyways until there is proof otherwise.
- McGiever
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http://www.brkelectronics.com/faqs/oem/how_long_d ... larms_last
Well according to this link from a company that makes them recent advances in CO sensor technology now give them a 10 year life! Prior CO sensors had a 5-7 year life.