What are Carbon monoxide (CO) Detectors?
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is produced by the incomplete burning of various fuels, including coal, wood, charcoal, oil, kerosene, propane, and natural gas. Products and equipment powered by internal combustion engines such as portable generators, cars, lawn mowers, and power washers also produce CO.
CO alarms always have been and still are designed to alarm before potentially life-threatening levels of CO are reached. The safety standards for CO alarms have been continually improved and currently marketed CO alarms are not as susceptible to nuisance alarms as earlier models.
What is Carbon Monoxide and How Can it Harm you?
Carbon monoxide is harmful when inhaled because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and other vital organs of oxygen. Large amounts of CO can overcome a person in minutes without warning—causing them to lose consciousness and suffocate.
A CO detector monitored by your home security system could be a life saver. When the CO detector alarms it also sends a signal to the monitoring station and they immediately dispatch the fire department. We offer both the wired and wirelesses types of CO detectors for your alarm system.
Both the wired and the wireless detector consists of an electrochemical carbon monoxide sensor assembly. The wireless detector is coupled with a wireless transmitter. The transmitter can send alarm, trouble, end-of-life, tamper and low battery condition messages to the alarm panel.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is produced by the incomplete burning of various fuels, including coal, wood, charcoal, oil, kerosene, propane, and natural gas. Products and equipment powered by internal combustion engines such as portable generators, cars, lawn mowers, and power washers also produce CO.
CO alarms always have been and still are designed to alarm before potentially life-threatening levels of CO are reached. The safety standards for CO alarms have been continually improved and currently marketed CO alarms are not as susceptible to nuisance alarms as earlier models.
What is Carbon Monoxide and How Can it Harm you?
Carbon monoxide is harmful when inhaled because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and other vital organs of oxygen. Large amounts of CO can overcome a person in minutes without warning—causing them to lose consciousness and suffocate.
A CO detector monitored by your home security system could be a life saver. When the CO detector alarms it also sends a signal to the monitoring station and they immediately dispatch the fire department. We offer both the wired and wirelesses types of CO detectors for your alarm system.
Both the wired and the wireless detector consists of an electrochemical carbon monoxide sensor assembly. The wireless detector is coupled with a wireless transmitter. The transmitter can send alarm, trouble, end-of-life, tamper and low battery condition messages to the alarm panel.