Carbon Monoxide issue with new TH
So on our trip over the holdays, aside from our water issues(posted in another thread) we had the carbon monoxide alarm go off both nights! 1st night we had the heater on (temp was in 20's), water ...
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Bedlam wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
I'm just repeating what I read at the time...I don't know how old the rig was or anything.
That having been said:
I'm surprised to hear that in Rv's the practice is that alarms are wired to house batteries instead of to dedicated batteries of their own. Such a practice is illegal in stick-built structures since it means that if the primary power source fails (or is drained) there's no occupant protection.
Our home CO alarm is powered by the wall outlet and has no batteries. I have not seen a home LPG alarm to give any observations.
In theory when house power is not available, you cannot run CO producing devices. Although LPG devices can have a manual valve open or leak, without house power there is no ignition source.
You have to always consider that there is a source of ignition. As simple as static electricity.
