We have one of those electric heat-dish-parabolic space heaters that I was using in my living room since my fireplace is on the fritz.
Olddog
Electric heater give off carbon monoxide? LOL ;)
I would of thought it was funny too but my detector went off and it was right by my space heater. Hell...I don't know. It's invisible and odorless.
olddog
What set it off was dust burning off, mine always stink for 15 minutes after a year sitting, put a plastic bag over it when you store it for the summer. So actualy for a minute it could have put out minimal Co, but it was just dust burning off.
No. To get CO, you have to have combustion.
Blow cigarette smoke into a co detector, it registers, burn dust off a
800f element it will register Co.
And cigarette smoke comes from the combustion of tobacco, not an electric heater element.
And if you have anything more than a momentary blip of CO from dust on the elements, you have bigger problems.
The bottom line is that a normally operting electric heater does not produce CO.
only if you tip it back and burn your trash on it.
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I stronly suspect it was your SMOKE detector - not a CO detector that went off.
It was strange. I've had that detector on for two years and never a peep. This morning I got up and grabbed the remote and aimed it at the TV near the detector and it went off. My natural gas fireplace WAS causing problems with soot so turned it off days ago but the detector never went off.
I put my space heater on my fireplace and the detector went off for just a couple of seconds when I aimed the remote at it.
Weird
olddog
No I've got a smoke detector too. I checked it and it's fine. I got the CO detector when I bought this house to be on the safe side. ;-)
olddog
NO! Actually you have to have INCOMPLETE combustion. Bubba
Ahh, but incomplete combustion is combustion... :)
I'm thinking that ransley has it right. Even though I dusted it it still burned off. Good call.
I cleared the detector and it hasn't gone off again.
olddog
One of the benefits of electric heat is that there are no toxic gases produced. For the most part, you need combustion (burning) to get CO.
No gasses at your house, but the power plant may produce a lot of them. Electric is 100% efficient for the user, but rather poorly efficient use of fuel to make it. That is why electric cars are a joke.
If the heater hurls enough insults at carbon monoxide, I would imagine that it would be put off.
TDD
So you are not buying a 40,000 Chevy Volt that might only go 10 miles at 0f. I dont think the Volt will do to well the way things are now.
a tenant of mine had their detector go off christmas day years ago. me police fire department and finally a furnace service guy at holiday rates :( all on the scene.......
finally traced to the kitchens cooking activities, after all it was christmas dinner.......
wierdly I had a nice time that day, a fond memory
No. And if it's like the $25 one I got at Costco, I love it. You can feel the heat ten feet away.
Steve
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