RV CO and Propane Detector

[SawyerTed]

This (insert adjective) THING is a carbon monoxide and propane detector.   Last Sunday morning about 12:20 am, it began beeping every 40 seconds.  Along with the infernal beeping was a plethora of flashing LEDs.

I couldn't reset it and had to resort to reading the manual in the wee hours of the night.  To shut the thing up, I had to disconnect the wiring. 

It turns out these things only last a few years.  That one said 7 years.  When they reach their end of life, they beep and flash. 

Who knew? 

Now the replacement says five years until end of life for it.

[Magicman]

Remember that a dog fart will set it off. 

[SawyerTed]

 

So will aerosol sunscreen. It uses propane for propellant.  

[Ron Scott]

Learned this the hard way also. The carbon monoxide detectors only last 7 years and now 5 years. They will beep constantly when time is up.

I've now underlined this in the instruction's pamphlets.

[doc henderson]

Ron, did you mean CO (carbon monoxide)?

[SawyerTed]

Alcohol of a certain proof will set off the detector too!   Tragically, I spilled a few ounces of some homemade and the detector let me know I messed up.  

I stuck a label with the install date on the front of the new one and put a reminder in my phone's calendar to change it out in 2029. 

[dougtrr2]

I had a detector go off.  In hindsight it was a false alarm.  But I took it down while beeping, saw a switch on the back that said "Deactivate".  Flipped the switch and all was quiet.  In the light of day I did my research.  The detector was a 10 year life that had only been up 5.  But once you hit the deactivate switch, you cannot turn it back on.

Doug in SW IA