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Meme_Ray
Aug 06, 2012Explorer
Jim Bakker wrote:
Smoke from a nearby forest fire caused my CO sensor to go off last night.The alarm wouldn't stop sounding, and the crimp connections prevented easy disconnect, so I took the brute force approach—cutting the wires. That stopped the alarm, but it also disabled the propane alarm and the tank sensors. Does a CO sensor have to be wired into the circuit? Or did I blow a fuse? If so, where is the fuse located? All the coach fuses in the panel cabinet seem to be OK, and besides none of the labels seem to apply. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Sounds like a similar problem we had a few years ago and it took us quite a while to rectify the problem. The Smoke/CO alarm in our bedroom went off one night for no reason and pressing the reset did nothing. We ended up just yanking it off the ceiling in the middle of the night so that we wouldn't wake up the whole campground. We never did find the source of the malfunction but eventually found some writing on the smoke/CO alarm that indicated they actually have a life span and that ours should have been replaced a few years ago. I found an identical one on the internet by searching for the make and model number. There was one version that was hard wired and had a battery and one model with just a battery. Make sure that you get the right one because they look identical in the pictures. we need the one that was hardwired and had a battery. We had to spice the wires since we had ripped it off the ceiling but it worked great. I do think that there were some instructions about pressing a reset button or doing something else special during installation to get it installed properly. If this step wasn't followed the new unit beeped like the battery was bad. Seems to me the hard wired replacement unit was less that $35 that our local RV store wanted for the battery only unit. Good Luck.
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