Testing a CO detector

Ya, take it in the garage (with the doors open) and start your push mower. It should go off pretty quick. Those small engines really put it out..

steve

CO test gas...

I have been a proponent for years of NEVER EVER buying CO detectors that are not the digital variety. Those who give you the current or past levels of CO in a digital format. If it's a beep/no beep type and the danger zone is

Just MHO, YMMV.

Steve

Johnstone Supply sells a aerosol to test detectors.

I forget what brand I have -- I can check -- but when I called them with a question I asked about putting it near the furnace to check if it was working and the woman on the phone said not to, that it would overload and ruin the sensor, I think.

What a Bimbo... she must have thought you were going to stick it in the flu. LOL

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:12:55 -0400 from mm :

If that were true, I think you'd have an urgent need to repair the furnace.

You want to buy some INCENSE and light a piece. Put it in your stove's oven along with your detector.

(DON'T turn the oven on - DUH!)

A digital meter should definitely reflect a substantial peak after a few minutes.

I'm not sure whether a "go-no-go" detector would trip but I suspect it would.

If you can't find incense, put a few lite cigaretes in.

What, you don't like your mac-n-cheese to smell like patchouli?

nate

Son of a bitch changed his E mail addy. Again. Had to do a new filter. Pathetic loon.

His ISP musta terminated him. LOL!!

Grin, find a friend who smokes and have them blow smoke at it. Should go off pretty quick. Then you wont have a oven smell to deal with.

Don't underestimate the ingenuity of people. I once watched someone stick a very sensitive CO meter probe into the exhaust pipe of a car to "test it" even after he was told it would destroy it because the CO concentration was probably 1,000 times the design range of the unit.

I have an entryway right near where I back my car in (no garage). I just plug in one of the CO detectors in the entryway and run the car for a few minutes. I get a readout very quickly.

---MIKE---