CO Detector Replace?

[Jack]

My CCI CO detector started beeping today - 4 alarms, every 60 seconds. Then I read on the face plate "Replace by 2010 July". Guess what, it's July 2010. I assume the sensor has a 5 year life and it has kept count of the days.

Any suggestions on replacement CO detectors?

 

[Stan@FourWheel]

The easiest thing to do might be to go to your local hardware store and buy a battery operated carbon monoxide sensor to replace your older outdated one.


Maybe something like this ...

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xgt/R-100165893/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053


Unscrew the old sensor in your camper now, cut the wires, carefully tape off the bare wires, and re-install the old sensor.

Then mount a new battery operated CO2 sensor somewhere in the camper that looks good to you.

The CCI company went out of business, so finding a replacement might not be easy.


Hope this helps.

Happy Camping !



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[Country Doc]

I just bought an '05 Hawk and had a lot of trouble trying to find flush-mount alarms to replace the almost-expired CCI ones.

MTI industries/Safe T Alert is now about the only company producing 12V propane and CO detectors. I found that the "Classic 30 series" propane alarm fits in the flush-mount hole almost perfectly, and looks great, so I now have a new flush-mount propane alarm.

However, they don't (yet??) appear to make the similar 30-series CO flush-mount detectors. All their CO detectors are a totally different shape, and many are surface mount.

I do see however on their website that they make a COMBO LP/CO alarm that is listed as flush-mount, and virtually the same dimensions as the old CCI alarm (in fact in says it fits in the CCI cut-out). See http://www.mtiindustries.com/re6.htm

I will probably replace my almost-expired CO alarm with one of these dual flush-mount pieces. If I had known I would have just made a plate to cover up the old propane alarm, but now I'll have some redundancy in that system, which I suppose isn't a bad thing.

Hope that helps!

dc

 

[leadsled9]

Here is a thread about the same issue:

http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2849/

 

[HERR42]

placement of those is important.

propane needs to be low.

co needs to be high.