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We can laugh with you. Might decide to buy a new propane detecter if yours is a few years old. Chevman

IT WAS THE CO2 DETECTOR!!

Slapping myself from head to toe.

I don't even want to talk about it.

Keep doing one fuse at a time. I agreed about the wiring but weird stuff happens


We have 2- 1 amp fuses. I just pulled the corect fuse and the light went off.

chevman

Hmm...it doesn't make sense to me that every works great for 10 years with this thing then suddenly the wiring is messed up somewhere.

There is a list showing which fuse is which and I pulled the one the corresponds to the propane detector.

as posted wrong fuse.

chevman

cannesdo wrote:
Ok, what does this tell you....I removed the fuse for the propane detector and it's still beeping.

I've tested it when it's beeping and when it hasn't and and every time it's the same result: 13.7 or so. Today it's beeped a lot less. Only a few times since sundown rather than regularly.

So that was the wrong fuse. Had to be. Anyway, whatever is going on there, if the wiring is mixed up somewhere, you might have problems with the new detector too.

The advice to replace the detector every five years is correct I suppose. Like the fire alarm perhaps, where the sensor gets dulled after a time.

I didn't know about the five year rule until recently, and just went by the flashing green light telling me it is ok. It is from 2002. A couple months ago I was equalizing and lots of battery fumes happening and the LP alarm sounded off, indicating nasty fumes. So it did that, but that was not LP fumes, it was battery fumes.

I put a brand new one in the truck camper we got and it went off with battery fumes too. (Battery box is inside--old camper didn't have any LP alarm) So I swapped to AGM battery. Also added a CO detector since it is a camper on a truck that has an exhaust. The trailer has no engine. Been told on here in a thread about that, the latest thing is to put a CO detector in the trailer anyway.

Then we got into here, where it goes because the CO detector also acts as the LP detector with some models. LP detector is supposed to be floor level for heavy propane but the CO detector should be higher up to be in the lighter CO. No problem, I have the LP one at floor level and the CO one on a wall half way up. Then there is the fire alarm on the ceiling. :)

BTW I think you can get AA/AAA battery powered alarms, so if you can't resolve the mystery wiring for that one, you could use that kind instead. But then you have to remember to keep changing the little batteries.

Propane detectors cannot be made to last more than five years, they might still function for 6 or 7 years depending on conditions but at ten years it needs to be replaced. It's there for a reason and might save your life someday. Gees, replace the darn thing and be done with it. Your batteries might still be bad but your propane detector is not a low battery detector.

Sam

Ok, what does this tell you....I removed the fuse for the propane detector and it's still beeping.

I've tested it when it's beeping and when it hasn't and and every time it's the same result: 13.7 or so. Today it's beeped a lot less. Only a few times since sundown rather than regularly.

cannesdo wrote:
I removed it last night and there is no fuse so I buried it with a towel. After I woke up it was beeping every 30 seconds. Tested it and it's getting full power. Turned it around so it is facing the opening to the basement and it's not chirping. But then again it's daytime again. Haven't open the doors. No change in ventilation. It seems to be connected to the solar panel somehow. I'll get out the schematic and see what else is on that circuit. I put LED bulbs in the bedroom lights for the first time and they flicker when the furnace is running. Just a little. Maybe it is detecting propane. Tiny amounts. But I hasn't chirped for about six years. I've had it streaming out of the burner at times when the spark or failed to ignite. Never went off then. 3 feet away. ?

It has input voltage, but is it the same voltage as battery voltage measured at the posts, same as solar controller output, day, night?

Am thinking maybe identify where it is getting its voltage from when it is beeping and then during the day by seeing it is the same voltage as someplace but different from some other place.

Does the beeping go with how it shows low voltage, which on mine is different from how it indicates nasty fumes.

On mine after the low voltage gets down to near zip, it won't beep because it has no power anymore. Yours beeps all night, so what is it saying?

Interesting mystery. You can't just borrow one and try it before buying a new one usually, so be worth a bit of trouble shooting with this one first considering the cost of a new one.

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