My carbon monoxide detector is going off every 30 seconds? ?

Bri<3

My carbon monoxide detector is going off like every 30 seconds or so. i changed the battery and its still going off. it just goes off in my room and we have detectors all over the house.
is it dangerous?
what should me and my pets do?:D
PLEASE HELP!! THANKS!

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you should certainly be concerned.

you said you have other CO detectors in the house, move a different one to the location where the alarming one is. seek "confirmation".

do both detectors alarm now?

if so, seek professional help immediately, open all of your windows, turn on any fans.
strongly consider leaving the house if you are at all unsure.

Carbon monoxide Detector help!!!!?

Ally

My carbon monoxide detector is going off. It beeps every 30 seconds and says Err. How do I fix it!?!?and if I get a stupid answer you will be reported.

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Carbon monoxide detectors are touchy. First you need to eliminate the possibility that CO caused it, then check the battery.
They have a very sensitive collector that accumulates CO until it sounds an alarm. Certain indoor pollutants can cause it to go off, like hair spray or air fresheners. It has been my experience that once they malfunction they need to be replaced unless it is simply a battery issue.

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Carbon Monoxide detector goes off after ATV (Motorcycle) running in garage 3 hours ago?

Jack

I ran my ATV (Motorcycle) in the garage with the doors closed for about 5 minutes or less, and 3 hours later the smoke alarms started going off. My smoke alarms also go off if there's carbon monoxide. Could this be caused by the atv even though it was 3 hours later? I'm trying to find the source and I'm not having much luck. I opened the windows and since then, it hasn't gone off. I don't want to contact the fire department being that it's 3AM on Christmas day...

I plugged in a carbon monoxide detector into the wall, and shortly after about 15 seconds, it started going off as well... .So it wasn't a false reading.
Just to give a safety update, the alarms haven't gone off in about an hour.

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There are smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors & combination units. You most likely have all but one, smoke detectors. The other one is a combo unit. The combo units are a bit bigger in size / look different/ have two vs one light on them. You might have ALL combo units (prickly building department).

A detector with a weak battery should be beeping once, every couple / 15-30 minutes.Only the one with the weak battery will beep. It's telling you there is a problem. A weak battery will cause it to malfunction, most likely NOT work. If the light is on, but not beeping , the battery is OK.

If they ALL go off, they are most likely interconnected. This can be checked by testing. Push in the test button on one, wait a few seconds. Every second or two, you should here the next one going off. If they progressively go off, they are interconnected. It's hard, with the one right there going off, but it can be heard that they are progressively going off. Stick the free finger in an ear. Stretch to reach that first one. One going off will cause all to go off. This is to wake you up, before the basement fire gets up stairs.The CO detector is probably picking up some un ventilated CO & causing the alarm. In my area, the Building Inspectors want the CO detector on the upper/ second floor / by the bedrooms. It took some time for the CO to travel to the Co detector, then it went off.

If they go off the next day, it's the furnace / hot water heater / fireplace, bad cooking, etc causing the alarm condition.

Ventilate your home. Open the doors, windows for a bit. Get some fresh air in there. Make it bit cold in there, then close it back up. If you don't get rid of the CO, you will at least dilute down to where it doesn't matter.

Does the plug in unit have a meter reading on it? My experience is, they do. What does it say? Hopefully zero. If it has a number, what does it say for a safe reading? Above zero, doesn't necessary mean bad. If it's sounding / alarming, etc, THAT'S NOT GOOD!

Interconnected CO detectors going off means an UNSAFE condition, not necessarily a DANGEROUS condition. If they went off & you ignored this (how??), for several hours, this would be bad. Going off, then opening doors, then they go silent would be OK, until they go off again.

Is it normal for a carbon monoxide detector to read 0 ppm?

dfjkdfj

Sorry for posting a second time, but the first question did not get any good answers. Is it normal for a carbon monoxide detector to read 0 PPM? I have one that shows the highest level over the past 24 hours, and whenever I check it always reads 0 PPM. Is this normal? I would think there might be one or two PPM in the house, considering the lowest level it would bother sensitive people is 30 PPM.

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Actually in the 0 to 29 ppm level CO detectors are not allowed to display the actual CO level, and are required to display zero in that range according to CO alarm standards developed by Underwriters Laboratories (UL2034) in collaboration with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. (The display and alarm specifications of UL2034 are matched in a Canadian standard, CSA 6.19-01)

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Carbon monoxide Detector help!!!!?

Ally

My carbon monoxide detector is going off. It beeps every 30 seconds and says Err. How do I fix it!?!?and if I get a stupid answer you will be reported.

Answer
Carbon monoxide detectors are touchy. First you need to eliminate the possibility that CO caused it, then check the battery.
They have a very sensitive collector that accumulates CO until it sounds an alarm. Certain indoor pollutants can cause it to go off, like hair spray or air fresheners. It has been my experience that once they malfunction they need to be replaced unless it is simply a battery issue.

Do I need to worry about Carbon Monoxide?

.

I have a very old gas stove/oven and baked a frozen pizza in it tonight. I thought I had turned it off, but accidentally turned it the wrong way, so the oven was empty on broil for about 30 minutes. I could smell gas so I went to check and turned it off. We are able to go to bed with a window cracked, do you think we need to worry about Carbon Monoxide from the gas oven? I've never smelled it quite so strong as I did before I turned it off...

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First of all, carbon monoxide detectors are not that expensive and they can and do save lives! Second, you can not smell carbon monoxide. That is why it is so deadly. People don't know they are being poisoned by it. Third, the more fuel burning appliances you have the greater the risk of one of them malfunctioning and killing you and your whole family with something that an investment of $30-$50 could have prevented. What you smelled may have been another dangerous problem, but it wasn't carbon monoxide.

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My carbon monoxide detector is going off every 30 seconds? ?

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Bri<3

My carbon monoxide detector is going off like every 30 seconds or so. i changed the battery and its still going off. it just goes off in my room and we have detectors all over the house.
is it dangerous?
what should me and my pets do?:D
PLEASE HELP!! THANKS!

Answer
you should certainly be concerned.

you said you have other CO detectors in the house, move a different one to the location where the alarming one is. seek "confirmation".

do both detectors alarm now?

if so, seek professional help immediately, open all of your windows, turn on any fans.
strongly consider leaving the house if you are at all unsure.

my carbon monoxide detector is beeping once every 15 to 30 seconds. anybody know why it is doing that? It is n?

Jaspal

It is not battery operated. Seems to be the one in the basement.

Answer
There's a ninja in your basement.

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My carbon monoxide detector beeps every 30 seconds?

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some girl

It's so disturbing, i can't sleep with that thing beeping every 30 seconds, its quite loud too.
What's wrong with it? My mom just got a new battery for it and i don't think our house is poisoned or whatever the detector is for..
So what's wrong with it and what can we do? thanks all ._.
oh and this started recently (i think on monday Nov 1st)
it'll start beeping every 30 seconds at around 4pm
then around 6pm it starts again, i dont really keep track, but i believe it goes in a 2 hour cycle.
it usually lasts for around 30 mins

Answer
Could be that your mom didn't install the new battery correctly. (Mine was a real pain.)

Carbon Monoxide detector goes off every 30 seconds?

katstar08

I hit the reset button. I went outside. It beeped after a few minutes outside. So does that mean the battery is just going out? It does not plug in the wall or have a display. I am paranoid enough now I do not know if I am feeling stuff out of stress or not. It is back on the wall and is not going off now. but it would beep once, then thirty seconds later it'd beep again both inside and out. Red light flashing. Help.

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Replace the battery to see if it makes a difference. If it still beeps either something is wrong with it or it is indeed detecting CO.

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