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CO/LPG DETECTOR ISSUES

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Topic: CO/LPG DETECTOR ISSUES

Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Subject: CO/LPG DETECTOR ISSUES
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 9:00pm

Just spent 4 days along the Colorado River. Only running the A/C unit, no hot water, heater or stove use. Late in the evening CO/PLG detector went off indicating a carbon dioxide and a LPG leak issue. Alarm went for 5 minutes and stopped. Later again the alarm went off indicating an LPG only issue but it would not stop so I pulled it from its base and removed the wiring. In both cases there was no CO or LPG issues.

Has anyone had a similar issue or has there been any reports of defective sensor units?

As the only appliance in use was the A/C unit that runs on electricity, in this case provided by a shore plug at the campsite, no CO or LPG was or could have been in the Rpod.

Your comments, experience or thoughts on this matter.

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Replies:

Posted By: Our pod
Date Posted: 07 May 2017 at 11:39pm

Ours goes off if the dog sleeps against it. The dog is a 110# lab.

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Posted By: john in idaho
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 8:37am

We had a tent trailer before the rPOD. The detector would go off when the battery got low.

Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 08 May 2017 at 7:31pm

That was the case with ours, low battery. Replaced it and it lasted another 2 years, after that the whole thing was replaced, even a new battery wouldn't stop it from chirping.

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Posted By: Marchhall
Date Posted: 12 May 2017 at 6:53pm

I had seen somewhere there was a bad batch of CO2 detectors and to have it replaced. Makes sense as mine would go off when stored last summer, repeadtedly and no one was using the camper.