smoke and carbon monoxide detectors

Thanks for all the input. Will be shopping this week for new ones.
Busyguy

CO detector should be placed in the area where the gas appliances are aka furnace and oven. Water heaters are mounted outside on RV, so this is not issue.
Latest generation of smoke detectors do communicate with each other, what can save your life sometimes, when alarm on one end might not wake you up.
Kiddie is best know brand, but I think most of them work fine as they have government testing.
Costco occasionally have good prices on a kit that include fire extinguisher. Those should be replaced every few years as well.

Our CO detector was hard-wired but had a battery backup.

They do beep when their lifespan is up.

We also had two smoke detectors.

What is needed is a dual chamber detector that will detect CO and smoke from a slow smoldering fire such as may start in a R/V because of electrical fires and fast burning smokeless fires.

After a lot of research and talking to Kidde, they assured me that this one would work in a home and also A RV,there is no difference.

This is what I found.
A Kidde KN-COSM-XTR-BA Nighthawk
That seemed to be best suited for this kind of application.

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They now can be bought at Home Depot, also At Amazon.

Home Depot

Amazon

I suggest you read all the info and make your decision on this but I replaced the ones in my Class C with this one.They are rated for 10 years
and most are only rated for 5,If your RV is older than 5 years old and they haven't been changed they are most likely no good. Mine needed to be replaced so this was a good deal for me, I had a hard wired one and I chucked it for the battery powered ones, they can be checked before each trip by pushing the test button in the center of the unit.

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My coach came with the carbon monoxide detector in the bed room and the smoke detector in front and above the passenger seat. Smoke still goes off from time to time from the toaster but all in all I think this is the correct placemrnt. The carbon detector in the bedroom also makes sense to me because that's where most people do not wake up from if it is present. That's where and how I would put separate detectors.

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