Defective CO/GAS Detector Help
Greetings! I have a CO/GAS dector that alarms several times per week and has become a major pain! (Generally at night) We have a 2011 Flaggstaff 5th wheel with a SAFE T ALERT unit. FR changed th...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
I've never understand the idea behind dual detectors CO/LP.
CO is lighter than air and accumulates up high in a room
LP is heavier than air and accumulates down low in a room
Now maybe a dual CO Detector/Smoke Alarm
That one I can answer (Dual CO/Explosive gas detectors)
The problem is your thinking, Though in the RV service since the primary explosive gas is PROPANE which as you pointed out is heavier than air, we thus call them PROPANE detectors. But the fact is the proper name is Explosive Gas Detector.. Propane is but one of the gasses that can ruin your day explosively.. NATURAL GAS, for example, is lighter than air, and also makes one loud BOOM when properly nixed with air and sparked at.
Other gasses, with varying density (By the way Propane is not "Heavier than air" it is more dense, one pound of propane is the same weight as one pound of ... every other substance on earth).
Alcohol vapors, Gasoline vapors, Methane, Butane, dang near any-ane, and more... The detectors detect all of them.
