CO monitor started discreetly chirping this morning; first time in my life I ever called 911.
Turned out the garage heater chimney was acting up and I now have new parts on order to fix the thing.
Got all manner of praise from the firefighters for "doing the right thing" by calling 911.
Thinking that if one monitor is good, more would be better, I bought 3 more of them and now there's a CO monitor on each floor of the house.
Setting them up I found a strange thing, the "alarm" signal is four modest chirps repeated every 5 seconds and the "low battery" signal is the same four chirps but every 30 seconds.
But the "anti-tampering" signal (when you pull the unit out of the power plug) is an 85dB continuous BEEEEP that'd wake the dead.
I mean, WTF, man? Four little barely audible chirps to tell me I'm being gassed to death and a noise like a Stuka siren to tell me I just pulled the thing out of it's power socket?
Somebody got their priorities wrong?
Turned out the garage heater chimney was acting up and I now have new parts on order to fix the thing.
Got all manner of praise from the firefighters for "doing the right thing" by calling 911.
Thinking that if one monitor is good, more would be better, I bought 3 more of them and now there's a CO monitor on each floor of the house.
Setting them up I found a strange thing, the "alarm" signal is four modest chirps repeated every 5 seconds and the "low battery" signal is the same four chirps but every 30 seconds.
But the "anti-tampering" signal (when you pull the unit out of the power plug) is an 85dB continuous BEEEEP that'd wake the dead.
I mean, WTF, man? Four little barely audible chirps to tell me I'm being gassed to death and a noise like a Stuka siren to tell me I just pulled the thing out of it's power socket?
Somebody got their priorities wrong?
