my carbon monoxide alarm beeped?

SouthernBe

it only beeped once..about 10 minutes ago..should i be worried..i went to look at it and it only has one light and the light is red but it looks like it is flickering..the light is always red by the way..we have gas heat but our heat has been off for 2 months..our ac is on..where does carbon monoxide come from??
mine is first alert model fcd2np...the date on the back says nov.15th 2005...i dont think it runs off batteries..and it may not have been the carbon monoxide it could have been the fire alarm..i am waiting to hear another beep so i will know..

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Carbon monoxide comes from an open flame. If you had a gas furnace, generator, or other item that ran on natural gas, propane, diesel, gasoline, etc, it would be putting out carbon monoxide as exhaust.

Your monitor only beeped once in ten minutes, its telling you its time to change the battery, most likely. You should change the CO detector battery whenever you change your smoke alarm battery. I change ours whenever we change daylights savings time... so, once in spring, once in fall.

If you kept the papers that came with the monitor, it should tell you what the different beeps are for. Some units have it on the label on the detector, so you might be able to pull it down and look.

If it was detecting CO it would be a continuous beeping, not once in ten minutes.

Remember to change your detectors (smoke and CO) about every 5 years too, because they do wear out.

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My carbon monoxide alarm beeped?

Brendon

Pleasee heeelp!!!!
My monoxide barbon detector beeped... It started beeping the night before last night, 1. Beep ever minute i guess, then i pressed the reset button and it stopped. Last night, same thing . And today, it beeped 4 beeps every 5 seconds(it says on the back thats the carbon alarm!! I changed the batteries, now it seems to be ok... Whay should i do ??
The dector is new!! I have it for like, 2 years, or something ....
But later it was beeping 4 beeps every 5seconds, the thing says when this happens, its because it feels the carbon monoxide =/

Answer
change the battery's, get a new one could be a defect, if still keeps beeping call 911 or your local gas company

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Why does my carbon monoxide detector keep beeping?

Q. 2 days ago my detector started a slow beep every 30 seconds. I has no idea what was going on & turned the heater off & opened the windows. It stopped after about 10mon & I thought I solved the problem. Then yesterday it did it again! I did the same process over & even pushed the test/silence button to make it stop. I called & was told that it was a low battery that needed to be changed, So I went & bought new ones to exchange with the old. Again, I thought I solved the problem. Now, only 8 hours after purchasing new batteries the slow beeping has started up again!! I don't know what to do?? The heater hasn't been on since the first incident yesterday & the windows are still open. What should I do?!

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What I would suggest is to try new batteries, If that fails, then put a different detector in same area and see if it happens with that one. If not, its safe to say you have a faulty detector. However, if it too goes off then there is always a possibility that you have a monoxide problem. Hope this helps.

my carbon monoxide alarm beeped?

SouthernBe

it only beeped once..about 10 minutes ago..should i be worried..i went to look at it and it only has one light and the light is red but it looks like it is flickering..the light is always red by the way..we have gas heat but our heat has been off for 2 months..our ac is on..where does carbon monoxide come from??
mine is first alert model fcd2np...the date on the back says nov.15th 2005...i dont think it runs off batteries..and it may not have been the carbon monoxide it could have been the fire alarm..i am waiting to hear another beep so i will know..

Answer
Carbon monoxide comes from an open flame. If you had a gas furnace, generator, or other item that ran on natural gas, propane, diesel, gasoline, etc, it would be putting out carbon monoxide as exhaust.

Your monitor only beeped once in ten minutes, its telling you its time to change the battery, most likely. You should change the CO detector battery whenever you change your smoke alarm battery. I change ours whenever we change daylights savings time... so, once in spring, once in fall.

If you kept the papers that came with the monitor, it should tell you what the different beeps are for. Some units have it on the label on the detector, so you might be able to pull it down and look.

If it was detecting CO it would be a continuous beeping, not once in ten minutes.

Remember to change your detectors (smoke and CO) about every 5 years too, because they do wear out.

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Is it possible to not show signs of carbon monoxide posioning?

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jadehope

my carbon monoxide detector keeps beeping and on the instructions it said it beeps in a specific pattern if needs to be replaced. my fiancée took it out of the wall and it beeped in all sorts of other patterns. we plugged it back in and it isn't beeping. so is it not working and there is carbon monoxide or is it fine and I'm just over reacting? none of the dogs or my fiancée and I have any symptoms of poisoning. what should we do?

Answer
It sounds to me like the detector simply needed to be reset for some reason.
Hemoglobin, the part of the blood that carries oxygen from the lungs to the cells of the body, has about 5 times the affinity for carbon monoxide as it does for oxygen. That means that, in the prescience of CO, hemoglobin will pick it up and hold onto it to the exclusion of oxygen. Co poisoning results when the blood no longer carries oxygen only CO.
symptoms of CO poisoning are, Severe headache, nausea, lethargy, and a ruddy or bright pink complexion. Hemoglobin turns bright read in the presence of oxygen and even brighter red in the presence of CO

My carbon monoxide detector keeps beeping?

Emily J

SO, I was wondering, I have a carbon monoxide detector in my basement, we also have one on the main floor, and one upstairs, the one in the basement is beeping, it says 0, so I don't know what is wrong with it, the other ones aren't going off, any ideas why this is? It just beeps every few seconds.
It stopped beeping after I re-set it once.

Answer
If it is just beeping like that, and the indicator says 0, it means the battery is getting low. Change it and it should be fine.

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