CO detector going off

Other than meeting the RIVA recommendation, I don't see the need for it actually. Smoke detector maybe but that irritating thing, no way.

HadEnough wrote:
Yes. The CO detector will go off when it detects hydrogen from battery charging also. Important to know.

Both my batteries are enclosed and vented but that could be it. The batteries are close to the detector.

Don't matter, I cut it's water a few hours ago. All quiet now. I'll get a new on and put it elsewhere.

Yes. The CO detector will go off when it detects hydrogen from battery charging also. Important to know.

Bobbo wrote:
We had a Class C. Driving to Yellowstone, it went off about Denver. We figured it needed replacement (the MH was 4 years old), so we stopped at Walmart and bought a new one. Installed it in the Walmart parking lot. About 30 minutes later, the new one went off. We went to an RV dealer who sent us to the Ford shop he uses. The Ford shop, when told we were traveling cross country, pulled a tech off of a commercial truck she was working on to work on us. (Considerate of the dealer.) After about an hour she reported that the doghouse had been improperly installed (that is on me) and was leaking CO past the gasket. Kept the MH for another 7 years and it never went off again. (I also never had occasion to take the doghouse off again.) :B

Don't apply, it's a truck camper and it's off the truck right now.

I may just disconnect it until I install a new one.

I had a similar occurrence with the propane detector in my TT. The mentions of low voltage were dead on but turns out it also wasn't my batteries. I found that the wiring connection right at the propane detector only had a few wire stands connected on one of the connections. Those few strands did not have the capability to transport enough amps to the detector at times, hence the propane detector would periodically go off.

Before spending the money on a new one, I'd take a quick look at the connections on the back of your existing detector first.

We had a Class C. Driving to Yellowstone, it went off about Denver. We figured it needed replacement (the MH was 4 years old), so we stopped at Walmart and bought a new one. Installed it in the Walmart parking lot. About 30 minutes later, the new one went off. We went to an RV dealer who sent us to the Ford shop he uses. The Ford shop, when told we were traveling cross country, pulled a tech off of a commercial truck she was working on to work on us. (Considerate of the dealer.) After about an hour she reported that the doghouse had been improperly installed (that is on me) and was leaking CO past the gasket. Kept the MH for another 7 years and it never went off again. (I also never had occasion to take the doghouse off again.) :B

2chiefsRus wrote:

mobeewan wrote:
Title of thread indicates carbon monoxide detector is going off. Thread actually mentions propane is turned off. Is it the CO detector or propane detector going off?

excellent question, I wondered the same thing.....

It's the one with the LED light that is either solid green or blinking red and t's hardwired into the system. Not the smoke detector on the ceiling, the other one and I only have 2, the smoke detector which is fine and this one, which isn't.

Just going to get a new one from Amazon and replace it. Only 50 bucks.

My batteries are fine and the unit is always shore powered anyway and I have a Trimetric and Progressive Dynamics converter installed and it shows the batteries (2 group 24 AGM's) are full charged and idle at 13.7 volts.

No CO present. The unit is unoccupied and sitting right now. I keep it inside in the winter and last winter it was going off in the barn too. I ignored it as I wasn't in there for it to irritate me.

I think the unit is/has reached it's life expectancy. Not sure why I need it anyway. I lean more toward the smoke alarm than a CO alarm.

The unit contains no batteries (that I'm aware of), it runs on house power all the time, hardwired to the electrical system.

Getting prepped for a trip and don't want to be listening to it screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night. If it did, I'd probably end it's existence with a screwdriver stuck in it's mouth.

Even the combined units give an indication of weather it is the propane or CO that is causing the alarm. We need to know which it is.

mobeewan wrote:
Title of thread indicates carbon monoxide detector is going off. Thread actually mentions propane is turned off. Is it the CO detector or propane detector going off?

2chiefsRus wrote:
excellent question, I wondered the same thing.....

The OP's rig is 2 yrs old which in turn means he has a combination CO / propane detector. It's hard wired to the rig's 12 vdc system so the first thing to do is confirm battery voltage is what it should be. That done, assuming the problem persists, replace the alarm and only if the problem still continues would I then be concerned about the "why". ;)

mobeewan wrote:
Title of thread indicates carbon monoxide detector is going off. Thread actually mentions propane is turned off. Is it the CO detector or propane detector going off?

excellent question, I wondered the same thing.....