FUNKMAN
01-03-2008, 06:44 PM
a week ago it's around midnight and i'm home with my girlfriend and the carbon monoxide detector starts going off. it's a bit scary and you get caught between thinking it's nothing and your mind playing tricks thinking you are starting to feel dizzy.
the detector has a power led, a service led, and an alarm led. the alarm led is blinking so I'm assuming it is not the battery, if it was the battery i would believe the 'service' led would be blinking. I reset it and it continues to go off so I call 911, they tell us to get out of the house and they'll send the fire dept. i ring the downstairs neighbors bell because it's a couple with three daughters and I was thinking fumes may be coming from their place. the husband answers and he says everything is cool downstairs.
so a volunteer fireman who lives in the complex shows up first, then an first-aid truck, then a police car with 2 policemen, and then a firetruck with 6 firefighters. i was a bit surprised by all the turnout. 4 fireman go into the apt and ten minutes later come out and tell me it's the battery. obviously I felt a bit foolish but what are you gonna do. i replaced the battery the next day and I'm good for 4 days.
then i get home around noon and the alarm is going off again. this time i take it down and on the back is a label. it says if it alarms 4 beeps, 5 seconds of silence and then 4 beeps again it is detecting carbon monoxide. this is what it is doing and what it did 4 nights before. i decided to not call 911 and went shopping for another detector. it was new years day and i couldn't reach the maintenace guy for our complex. i was in sears and the maintenance guy calls me back, he has a spare and will be there in an hour.
anyway, he says the detector is most likely bad due to it being old and he replaced it with a newer model. 2 days now and it has not gone off, so we'll see. plus the fireman supposedly have good sensing equip and they did not locate any fumes when they were inside 4 nights before new years.
a learning experience for me being i've never dealt with a carbon monoxide detector going off before
the detector has a power led, a service led, and an alarm led. the alarm led is blinking so I'm assuming it is not the battery, if it was the battery i would believe the 'service' led would be blinking. I reset it and it continues to go off so I call 911, they tell us to get out of the house and they'll send the fire dept. i ring the downstairs neighbors bell because it's a couple with three daughters and I was thinking fumes may be coming from their place. the husband answers and he says everything is cool downstairs.
so a volunteer fireman who lives in the complex shows up first, then an first-aid truck, then a police car with 2 policemen, and then a firetruck with 6 firefighters. i was a bit surprised by all the turnout. 4 fireman go into the apt and ten minutes later come out and tell me it's the battery. obviously I felt a bit foolish but what are you gonna do. i replaced the battery the next day and I'm good for 4 days.
then i get home around noon and the alarm is going off again. this time i take it down and on the back is a label. it says if it alarms 4 beeps, 5 seconds of silence and then 4 beeps again it is detecting carbon monoxide. this is what it is doing and what it did 4 nights before. i decided to not call 911 and went shopping for another detector. it was new years day and i couldn't reach the maintenace guy for our complex. i was in sears and the maintenance guy calls me back, he has a spare and will be there in an hour.
anyway, he says the detector is most likely bad due to it being old and he replaced it with a newer model. 2 days now and it has not gone off, so we'll see. plus the fireman supposedly have good sensing equip and they did not locate any fumes when they were inside 4 nights before new years.
a learning experience for me being i've never dealt with a carbon monoxide detector going off before