Carbon MONO oxide detectors February 13, 2008, 12:29:13 pm Yahoo Message Number: 89399QuoteWell, didn't wake up dead, so must mean the Co2 detector is defective A little clarification is needed here. CO2 is carbon Di-oxide. It is not dangerous, except when in high concentrations or excluding oxygen. Normally you breathe it out. Plants like it. Carbon monoxide is the result of incomplete combustion, usually because a flame doesn't have enough oxygen. When breathed in, CO will bind with hemoglobin, reducing the number of corpuscles available to transport oxygen and carbon dioxide. That will suffocate you. Try removing the CO detector to outside, and see if it goes off there. Are there any campfires near you. Other vehicle exhausts, generators, space heater exhausts from other RV's, might also be getting inside your LD. Burning candles or other open flames can build up fumes inside. I set off my CO detector while cooking, everything was closed up tight; it was cold outside. I know that some of the earliest CO detectors had a sensor that needed to be replaced every two years, so it was packaged with the battery. Newer detectors don't have that limitation, but it might still be a good idea to replace them every so often. Hope this is helpful. Ron and Bluebelle, a '99 TKBThe year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Carbon MONO oxide detectors Reply #1 – February 13, 2008, 03:31:11 pm Yahoo Message Number: 89406rntb00@... wrote: A little clarification is needed here. CO2 is carbon Di-oxide --- Yes, it is! And carbon monoxide is CO; I know this, and have no excuses for answering a post using CO2 for CO! Thanks for the correction/reminder, Ron!Joan
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