Finally happened, CO alarm !
- Sunny Boy
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Well after decades of using various coal stoves without leaks or back drafts, my kitchen CO2 alarm started chirping. First I've ever heard it go off without having to press the test button,...
Then I slowly remembered that I had let the range burn out and cleaned it out last week......
Thought maybe the battery was low. Checked it with a volt meter and it's a full 9 volts.
Put the battery back in and it chirps again,....
Then I noticed the date I had written on the back of the first yearly battery change,...... 9 years ago.
Then I remember hearing that some CO2 detectors warn you when their ten year life span is up.
Check your detector life span dates folks.
Paul
Then I slowly remembered that I had let the range burn out and cleaned it out last week......
Thought maybe the battery was low. Checked it with a volt meter and it's a full 9 volts.
Put the battery back in and it chirps again,....
Then I noticed the date I had written on the back of the first yearly battery change,...... 9 years ago.
Then I remember hearing that some CO2 detectors warn you when their ten year life span is up.
Check your detector life span dates folks.
Paul
- coalkirk
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If any of us had CO2 alarms they would go off every time we exhaled or opened a beer. That's my smartass way of saying it's CO, not CO2.
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I use a black Sharpie to write the date an alarm was installed so that I can see from from standing underneath it. Who cares what it looks like just so I can read it. I do the same with furnace filters. Just had to replace an old alarm.
- Sunny Boy
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- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
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- freetown fred
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I use the plug in/ battery ones & write activated date on them like H. Works well for this forgetful old farmer!!
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Funny, that’s one of the first things I did when I got my CO2 leak detector at work...
It’s kind of fun to see how CO2 levels fluctuate in a large retail setting over the course of a day. (I’ve been working on large CO2 pumpover refrigeration systems at work, hence the detector)
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Yea same here about a year ago. Replaced mine with the night hawk also.
My brother been burning coal/wood for years and never had one, so for his early Christmas present I got him a night hawk. Man oh man did he ever thank me.
- coaledsweat
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