Carbon monoxide sensor/propane alarm
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Topic: Carbon monoxide sensor/propane alarm
Posted By: RoadToad
Subject: Carbon monoxide sensor/propane alarm
Date 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 ------------- 2015 RP179 |
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Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 7:45am
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Gas station fumes. ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: RoadToad
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 8:16am
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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 ------------- 2015 RP179 |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 10:57am
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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. ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Grayotter
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 11:43am
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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. ------------- Love2 1der |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 7:08pm
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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. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 11:50am
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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. ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: RoadToad
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 1:59pm
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Thanx. Our detector says right on it propane & carbon monoxide
Road Toad ------------- 2015 RP179 |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 8:26pm
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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. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual
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