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Carbon Monoxide detector
Can anyone recommend a competitively priced replacement for my CO detector
that has prematurely reached the end of its life please? It's a 'Model SF350EN', labeled 'British Gas' and its supplier, SF Detection, want an exorbitant £30 to replace it. Seems daylight robbery to me. They insist the whole unit needs replacing 'because the sensor dries out'. The sticker on mine says 'Replace by January 2012', and given that it was only installed a couple of years ago I feel short-changed. I'm tempted to try making one myself. I made a smoke alarm many years ago which I vaguely recall used a gas sensor as its principal component. Are CO sensors similar and easily obtained? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Carbon Monoxide detector
Terry Pinnell schrieb:
Can anyone recommend a competitively priced replacement for my CO detector that has prematurely reached the end of its life please? It's a 'Model SF350EN', labeled 'British Gas' and its supplier, SF Detection, want an exorbitant £30 to replace it. Seems daylight robbery to me. They insist the whole unit needs replacing 'because the sensor dries out'. The sticker on mine says 'Replace by January 2012', and given that it was only installed a couple of years ago I feel short-changed. I'm tempted to try making one myself. I made a smoke alarm many years ago which I vaguely recall used a gas sensor as its principal component. Are CO sensors similar and easily obtained? Have a look he http://www.figarosensor.com/ HTH, Jorgen |
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Carbon Monoxide detector
Terry Pinnell wrote:
Can anyone recommend a competitively priced replacement for my CO detector that has prematurely reached the end of its life please? If you go to that famous acution site, use advanced search to select UK only and buy it now, you will find many of them under $20 (US) with free postage to the UK. Obvoiusly the price is in UKP, but I since I have my currency set to US dollars, they are automaticaly converted for me. Last I looked, that's about 12 pounds 50. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM Occam's Razor does not apply to electronics. If something won't turn on, it's not likely to be the power switch. |
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Carbon Monoxide detector
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Terry Pinnell wrote: Can anyone recommend a competitively priced replacement for my CO detector that has prematurely reached the end of its life please? It's a 'Model SF350EN', labeled 'British Gas' and its supplier, SF Detection, want an exorbitant £30 to replace it. Seems daylight robbery to me. They insist the whole unit needs replacing 'because the sensor dries out'. The sticker on mine says 'Replace by January 2012', and given that it was only installed a couple of years ago I feel short-changed. I'm tempted to try making one myself. I made a smoke alarm many years ago which I vaguely recall used a gas sensor as its principal component. Are CO sensors similar and easily obtained? If I thought I needed a CO detector - which I don't - I'd not shop for one based on price. I don't get the logic, there. Aren't you intending to trust your life to it? Or is this just a junior high school science experiment? |
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