Replace Your Old CO Detector!!

It's a gell that mimics Hemoglobin found in human blood. I'm not entirely sure how it is made. But when CO enters the sensing chamber in the CO detector it changes "colors" based on the density (PPM) of the CO. Now I'm not sure if its actually colors because I don't know what the sensor reads as color.

Biomimetic comes from the term biomimcry which is the examination of nature and its systems.

Since my CO detector is nearing the end of its life I might pull it apart to see what this disk looks like.

My latest CO detector has a 7 year life span. After 7 years it goes into a "mode" that requires you to replace the whole unit. Kidde is the manufacturer.

I have several CO/smoke detectors. As well as a few CO detectors. When in doubt I walk threw the house with this.. http://www.pksafety.com/qrae-ii-gas-detector.html. All I have to do is grab it out of my truck. When ever I light a stove, refire a furnace or anything I turn it on. and watch it for a few hours. As well as walk around with it.

murphyslaw wrote:I have several CO/smoke detectors. As well as a few CO detectors. When in doubt I walk threw the house with this.. http://www.pksafety.com/qrae-ii-gas-detector.html. All I have to do is grab it out of my truck. When ever I light a stove, refire a furnace or anything I turn it on. and watch it for a few hours. As well as walk around with it.

Sure is a nice looking CO meter. How often do you calibrate it? How expensive and available are the calibration gases?

I don't calibrate it. The dept has people for that. They just grab it out of my truck now and then and put a new sticker on it.

I just installed two new 110v co/smoke detectors. Wired them to my generator circuit too.

Although, I'm not sure if where I put them they are going to work properly or not. My ceilings are weird and I have them pretty much above some ceiling fans.

I'm in the fire protection field so I did reference NFPA to install them, they are within code as far as clearances but I just don't like where they are.

I have my wired Silhouette Low-Profile Carbon Monoxide Alarms mounted on the wall about eye level. They are wired in with my smoke detectors where one goes off they all go off, very loud.

Yeah, I was going to mount mine on the wall too but to get teh wire run down the wall would not have been fun so I just put them on teh ceiling.