I don't think I will be opening up an unlit stove burner to test for presence of propane. Sounds like a good way to blow up your trailer.
I have two DETECTORS in my trailer. SMOKE and a combo of CO/LP GAS...
The SMOKE Detector is mounted high on the ceiling and detects for presence of smoke from any source (including cooking).
The CO Carbon Monoxide Detector (NOT a CO2 Carbon Dioxide Detector) is part of the combo detected that is mounted near the floor and detects the presence of dangerous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon coming from your Propane Furnace.
The LP GAS Detector is part of the combo detector mounted close to the floor detects the presence of Propane gas coming from the unlit Propane Furnace or unlit stove burners.
My SMOKE Detector is only equipped with batteries and the CO/LP Combo Detector is wired into 12VDC from the battery system.
I hear beeps from my detectors from time to time that are low volume and maybe occur every minute or so. The manuals says these are low battery alarms. The manual also say an actual detector alarm will be be continuous and louder as long as the event is present.
As others have stated I wish there was a better way of knowing if the monitors are working or not. I kinda like the idea of having TWO CO/LP GAS detectors installed and hope maybe one of them work in an actual emergency.
Roy Ken
