Originally posted by DavidE
It may be noteworthy to understand
For some peculiar reason our lungs, when offered a choice between O2 and CO, choose carbon monoxide about ten times faster. It is absorbed into the
body so much easier it is a trap that can be misleading when PPM CO are known.
It does not hurt to test out a CO detector. With a gas refrigerator hold the instrument about a foot away from the hot gas plume exhaust on top of the
refrigerator. It should sound. If not take it out to your car, start the car, and hold the instrument about a foot distant from the end of the exhaust
pipe.
If it did not sound then, there is a problem with the machine despite what the test button may show.
It takes a good 15-30 minutes of airing out the tester to clear it of CO when a test is conducted on it. I have one in the kitchen and another in the
bedroom. I was awakened by a shrill pitch one afternoon. My idiot neighbor had moved a Yamaha outboard upwind and stuck it in an oil drum of water.
The wind carried the CO in and fired-off the alarm. I removed it from the wall, took it and and shoved it under his nose. His IQ is somewhere between
30 - 50 when it comes to common sense. |