Why does my Carbon Monoxide detector keep going off?

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Stephen T

We have a brand new First Alert smoke/carbon monoxide detector. One day it was going off when I came home for lunch. I called the fire dept. and they came and did a test and said my levels were normal for the basement. A few weeks ago it started going off again so I opened a window. We felt no symptoms. This morning it went off yet again.

Is my device faulty? What could be the problems. Every time it has gone off I have replaced the batteries just in case the signal meant low battery.

Answer
I would try a different unit (or even different brand) and see if the results are the same. You might even try getting separate smoke/CO detectors and try different locations. And if it goes off again, I would have the fire department come and check more than the basement (and they should use two detectors to make sure THEIR readings are accurate). There's a whole myriad of factors involved here; I wouldn't rest until I was sure I wasn't in any danger. People die from CO poisoning every day. I've found a couple of websites that might help:

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Deangelo H

I called maintenance and they told me it was just a faulty Carbon Monoxide detector and they would take care of it in the morning...I think they just don't want to call someone out so late....I hit the reset button, which silenced the alarm, if it really is a CM problem how long until the detector starts going off again? You think I should call the Fire Department?
ALso I have a headache, and I never get headaches....now that I'm reading up on CM poisining, this could be a bad sign
UPDATE: Fire Department Came out and tested the air....no poisoning, just a bad detector...Thanks GUYS

Answer
Don't play around..Call the fire department.
They will be glad to check it out.

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