My carbon monoxide alarm wont stop going off and i am outside?

namcopunk

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Well, a carbon monoxide alarm will sound when there is carbon monoxide present, so, if it's still sounding then there is still carbon monoxide present, simple as that.

Or, you could just pull the battery out of it.

Good luck!... :-D

Carbon Monoxide Detector went on then off?

E.T.

My carbon monoxide detector went off for 2 or 3 min. then stopped... its in my living room but my gas stove was on but leaking gas (burner had gas smell and was on but no fire) for about 2 min before that... all windows were open... is this carbon monoxide, or false alarm, or... what? HELP!

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Sometimes as the sensors age they have increased cross-sensitivity to other gasses such as hydrogen or hydrogen sulfide (the rotten egg smell they add to the gas). So the detector was probably reacting to the presence of the gas rather than carbon monoxide. You have to have combustion to create carbon monoxide, so if the burner wasn't lit you weren't producing carbon monoxide.

Either way you were fortunate that the detector alerted to to the hazardous situation. Since you have gas appliances, I would recommend you buy a combo gas/CO detector that will tell you what it's detecting.

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