They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector
http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks

Ya, take it in the garage (with the doors open) and start your push mower.
It should go off pretty quick. Those small engines really put it out..

steve


wrote in message
oups.com...
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector
http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks

wrote in message
oups.com...
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector

http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...Ft0A;_ylu=X3oD
MTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=%22smoke+check%22+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks


CO test gas...

http://tinyurl.com/2du2pe

wrote in message
oups.com...
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector

I have been a proponent for years of NEVER EVER buying CO detectors that are
not the digital variety. Those who give you the current or past levels of
CO in a digital format. If it's a beep/no beep type and the danger zone is
400 (pick a number), and you only get to 399, it doesn't go off. I like to
know if there's CO present at all, and if it is just a little, or
approaching the beep level.

Just MHO, YMMV.

Steve

wrote:
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector
http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks

Johnstone Supply sells a aerosol to test detectors.

--
Moe Jones
HVAC Service Technician
Energy Equalizers Inc.
Houston, Texas
www.EnergyEqualizers.com

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:40:04 -0500, "Steve Barker LT"
wrote:

Ya, take it in the garage (with the doors open) and start your push mower.
It should go off pretty quick. Those small engines really put it out..

steve

I forget what brand I have -- I can check -- but when I called them
with a question I asked about putting it near the furnace to check if
it was working and the woman on the phone said not to, that it would
overload and ruin the sensor, I think.


wrote in message
roups.com...
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector
http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks

In article ,
"Moe Jones" wrote:

wrote:
They have a convenient spray that allows you to test the sensor
elements of a smoke detector
http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_yl...Ft0A;_ylu=X3oD
MTBhNjRqazhxBHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=%22smoke+check%22+detector&did=

(most alarms have no way to test the sensors when you press the test
button)

Is there a similar aerosol or method of thoroughly testing a CO
detector?
I couldn't find anything from a web search

Thanks

Johnstone Supply sells a aerosol to test detectors.

I doubt that a CO detector owner would be a smoker, but would a puff of
cigarette smoke blown at a detector set it off?

"mm" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:40:04 -0500, "Steve Barker LT"
wrote:

Ya, take it in the garage (with the doors open) and start your push
mower.
It should go off pretty quick. Those small engines really put it out..

steve

I forget what brand I have -- I can check -- but when I called them
with a question I asked about putting it near the furnace to check if
it was working and the woman on the phone said not to, that it would
overload and ruin the sensor, I think.


What a Bimbo... she must have thought you were going to stick it in the flu.
LOL

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:12:55 -0400 from mm :
I forget what brand I have -- I can check -- but when I called them
with a question I asked about putting it near the furnace to check if
it was working and the woman on the phone said not to, that it would
overload and ruin the sensor, I think.

If that were true, I think you'd have an urgent need to repair the
furnace.

--
"First prove what you're saying, then whine about it."
-- /The People's Court/
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

You want to buy some INCENSE and light a piece. Put it in your stove's
oven along with your detector.

(DON'T turn the oven on - DUH!)

A digital meter should definitely reflect a substantial peak after a few
minutes.

I'm not sure whether a "go-no-go" detector would trip but I suspect it
would.

If you can't find incense, put a few lite cigaretes in.

On Oct 30, 4:41 pm, "Cshenk" wrote:
"John Gilmer" wrote in message ..
You want to buy some INCENSE and light a piece. Put it in your stove's
oven along with your detector.

(DON'T turn the oven on - DUH!)

A digital meter should definitely reflect a substantial peak after a few
minutes.

I'm not sure whether a "go-no-go" detector would trip but I suspect it
would.

If you can't find incense, put a few lite cigaretes in.

Grin, find a friend who smokes and have them blow smoke at it. Should go
off pretty quick. Then you wont have a oven smell to deal with.

What, you don't like your mac-n-cheese to smell like patchouli?

nate

kjpro @ usenet.com wrote:

Son of a bitch changed his E mail addy. Again. Had to do a new filter.
Pathetic loon.

jJim McLaughlin wrote:
kjpro @ usenet.com wrote:

Son of a bitch changed his E mail addy. Again. Had to do a new
filter. Pathetic loon.

His ISP musta terminated him. LOL!!

"John Gilmer" wrote in message ..
You want to buy some INCENSE and light a piece. Put it in your stove's
oven along with your detector.

(DON'T turn the oven on - DUH!)

A digital meter should definitely reflect a substantial peak after a few
minutes.

I'm not sure whether a "go-no-go" detector would trip but I suspect it
would.

If you can't find incense, put a few lite cigaretes in.

Grin, find a friend who smokes and have them blow smoke at it. Should go
off pretty quick. Then you wont have a oven smell to deal with.

kjpro @ usenet.com wrote:
"mm" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:40:04 -0500, "Steve Barker LT"
wrote:

Ya, take it in the garage (with the doors open) and start your push
mower.
It should go off pretty quick. Those small engines really put it out..

steve
I forget what brand I have -- I can check -- but when I called them
with a question I asked about putting it near the furnace to check if
it was working and the woman on the phone said not to, that it would
overload and ruin the sensor, I think.


What a Bimbo... she must have thought you were going to stick it in the flu.
LOL


Don't underestimate the ingenuity of people. I once watched someone
stick a very sensitive CO meter probe into the exhaust pipe of a car to
"test it" even after he was told it would destroy it because the CO
concentration was probably 1,000 times the design range of the unit.

I have an entryway right near where I back my car in (no garage). I
just plug in one of the CO detectors in the entryway and run the car for
a few minutes. I get a readout very quickly.


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')