Re: Kidde Combined Smoke / CO Alarm

["nick markowitz" <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would double check fo Co also had a customer give me a unit that was
always falsing brought it home and never got one false ends up he had a Co
problem.
"Todd H." <t@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:84hcxirfz0.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Matt" <mattb95@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Since I'm planning to take this alarm back (but still keen to have a
>> CO/smoke alarm) does anyone know of an alternative CO alarm that I
>> could get? Even better would be another combined smoke/CO detector so I
>> don't need to buy two.
>
> Are you sure this might not be the time of day your heater or whatever
> is running and it might not be a CO alarm?
>
> The CO detector to have is the Nighthawk plug in model with the
> digital readout.  To confuse matters though, Kiddie bought Nighthawk
> semi recently, or licensed their technology.  It's a rectangular
> little box with an LED display on it.
>
> Battery powered CO detectors have a long history of being prone to
> false alarms.   Battery powered smoke alarms work fine though.
>
> I might have the fire department out with their very expensive CO
> detector around that time of day to make sure you don't have a problem
> that your current detector is trying to tell you about.    They do
> that for free as a public service here in most locations in the US.
> YMMV.
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Todd H.
> http://www.toddh.net/