Testing Carbon Monoxide Detector
The old CO detector is 5 years old so I replaced it with a state of the art digital CO detector. I inserted fresh batteries and pressed the test button. Everything worked. The alarm was loud enough to wake me if I were asleep and the detector would monitor and retain CO levels for reference.
But there is this one nagging question -- how do I know the detector will work when CO is present in the RV. All I know at this point is that the test button works but I would like to know if the detector would actually work.
I tried using a candle and blowing it out to see if the CO unit would work. Unfortunately I found that the smoke detector worked but nothing happened with the CO detector.
Is there a reliable inexpensive way to actually test the unit? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
But there is this one nagging question -- how do I know the detector will work when CO is present in the RV. All I know at this point is that the test button works but I would like to know if the detector would actually work.
I tried using a candle and blowing it out to see if the CO unit would work. Unfortunately I found that the smoke detector worked but nothing happened with the CO detector.
Is there a reliable inexpensive way to actually test the unit? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
