Re: [RE-wrenches] wrenches] Battery Off Gassing and CO Detectors

2012-02-03 Thread John DeBoever
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] wrenches] Battery Off Gassing and CO Detectors Fellow wrenches, Most CO sensors will be sensitive to both hydrogen sulfide and to hydrogen. Here's a link to a typical sensor<http://www.alphasense.com/pdf/COAX.pdf>. While the unintended sensitivity to h

Re: [RE-wrenches] wrenches] Battery Off Gassing and CO Detectors

2012-02-03 Thread Kent Osterberg
Fellow wrenches, Most CO sensors will be sensitive to both hydrogen sulfide and to hydrogen. Here's a link to a typical sensor . While the unintended sensitivity to hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide may cause false alarms to CO, does anyone know if these de

Re: [RE-wrenches] wrenches] Battery Off Gassing and CO Detectors

2012-02-03 Thread john
Rich, I have found that having the CO detector anywhere nearby seems to pick up the battery gasses. I had a problem with one customer's battery box (built by their carpenter) made of pine boards tightly fitted together. It was leaking gasses thru the crack between the boards on the top nea