Carbon monoxide sensor/propane alarm

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   Rpod 179 new owner here. So we just bought the 2015 rpod in MI, headed south to Austin, TX.  We stopped for gas in MO, went in rpod and dicovered the near the ground monoxide/propane sensor going off. Not sure why. Aired it out and sensor wuit alarming. Anybody have this phenomena happen?  Furnace was off. Propane stove was off. Propane was shut off.   My wife has noticed funny odor in pod ever since we bought it, but it does not smell like the additive they put in propane to me??  

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RoadToad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Nov 2015 Location: Ninilchik Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Topic: Carbon monoxide sensor/propane alarm Posted: 19 Nov 2015 at 11:15pm
	Rpod 179 new owner here. So we just bought the 2015 rpod in MI, headed south to Austin, TX. We stopped for gas in MO, went in rpod and dicovered the near the ground monoxide/propane sensor going off. Not sure why. Aired it out and sensor wuit alarming. Anybody have this phenomena happen? Furnace was off. Propane stove was off. Propane was shut off. My wife has noticed funny odor in pod ever since we bought it, but it does not smell like the additive they put in propane to me?? RoadToad
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kymooses Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Louisville, Ky Online Status: Offline Posts: 1807	Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 7:45am
	Gas station fumes.
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RoadToad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Nov 2015 Location: Ninilchik Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 8:16am
	Ok. Looking at your map I'd say you guys have been around. Is that all ONE Rpod or a group of you? All the way to Kenai and you fidn't stop by oyr house? We live just south of Ninilchik in Happy Valley. Thanks for the advice. Being as you seem to be living in your pod have you found some good ways to keep it dry inside? The RoadToad & Ms Badger
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Leo B Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4518	Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 10:57am
	We had our monitor go a month or two after we bought our 2015 179. Wen to our dealership and got a replacement under warranty, popped it in and all has been fine since.
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Grayotter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 06 Aug 2014 Location: Morro Bay Online Status: Offline Posts: 60	Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 11:43am
	We were showing off a previous trailer to friends. During the process somebody bumped into the knob on our stove, which sent fumes into the detector, letting us know the detector works.
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techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062	Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 7:08pm
	The detector on the floor is only for LP. I learned the hard way this summer that while 90% of US suppliers use the same additive, 10% uses various other chemicals which can have a different smell than the rotten eggs you expect. My wife bumped one of the knobs on our stove just a bit on the last day of a long trip, and it took a week at home to figure out where the smell was coming from because to us it smelled like a dead mouse. I had filled up that tank earlier on our trip in NC and not at our usual local store. Our local LP has the usual sulphur smell.
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kymooses Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Louisville, Ky Online Status: Offline Posts: 1807	Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 11:50am
	In the fall when I'm running my leaf blower near they Pod if I happen to get too near the furnace intakes while I'm doing it the fumes will set off the LP alarm in my Pod. I don't have one of the combo LP/CO ones. So they can at least in my scenario be sensitive to things other than just LP.
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RoadToad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Nov 2015 Location: Ninilchik Online Status: Offline Posts: 46	Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 1:59pm
	Thanx. Our detector says right on it propane & carbon monoxide Road Toad
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techntrek Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062	Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 8:26pm
	Travis - odd since the intake/exhaust has no connection to the inside. Maybe the exhaust from the blower is seeping through the door, and it has unburned fuel in it which is triggering the alarm. RoadToad - They must have changed that in the newer models.
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