Re: Kidde Combined Smoke / CO Alarm

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Only combi alarm that has benefit of voice warnings too!
Neat at =A3.

Matt wrote:
> Hey guys. I've been having some trouble with a Kidde smoke/Co alarm
> I've recently bought for my room. I am in the unenviable position of
> living with a hot water boiler in my wardrobe so I thought that whilst
> i was going to buya  smoke alarm anyway, I may as well get one that
> does CO as well - so I bought the Kidde one.
>
> However, the alarm has started going off around early-mid morning every
> day. There's no audio warning; there is simply just a long beep,
> followed by a shorter beep then a pause. It does this over and over
> until I get fed up of it and takes the batteries out. Having read the
> operating instructions, it mentions that the alarm cannot operate below
> 4.4=B0C. Since the time of day that this happens is probably when my
> room is coldest and that since my room is on an outside wall and in the
> North East of England, it seems that going below this temperature is
> probably what is setting the alarm off.
>
> 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.
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> Kind Regards,
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> Matt