Carbon Monoxide Detector Functionality

In this video, Joe talks about carbon monoxide detectors. A carbon monoxide detector will alert a security panel if there is an outbreak of carbon monoxide gas. Carbon monoxide gas is odorless and tasteless, making it virtually impossible to detect without a properly function carbon monoxide sensor.

Hundreds of people are killed due to carbon monoxide outbreaks every single year. Most of these deaths occur in the winter months when heaters are commonly used to heat homes. Faulty heating equipment can emit CO gas and lead to an outbreak. If you carbon monoxide detectors, then the sensors will detect the unusually high levels of the gas and alert the system before anything serious happens. Other causes of CO outbreaks can include running vehicles in poorly ventilated areas, using a charcoal grill or portable camp stove indoors, or faulty fuel-burning appliances. It's possible that a carbon monoxide outbreak could occur at any time, so you want to always make sure that these sensors are working properly. Testing them regularly is strongly recommended.

While all carbon monoxide sensors accomplish the same end goal of detecting carbon monoxide gas, these sensors can be split into many sub-categories. For example, there are wireless carbon monoxide detectors and hardwired carbon monoxide sensors. There are many of both varieties that can be directly paired with alarm systems. Wireless carbon monoxide sensors for alarm systems will communicate with an alarm control panel at a particular frequency and take up a wireless system zone. Hardwired carbon monoxide sensors for alarm systems are usually 4-wire devices that connect with a hardwired zone. With hardwired CO sensors, no reset equipment is needed because the alarm will clear when the CO gas exits the sensor.

Even carbon monoxide sensors not specifically designed for use with alarm systems can be still be used with systems by pairing them indirectly. This applies to wireless conventional CO detectors and high-voltage hardwired CO sensors. All you have to do is use a takeover listening module that will actively listen for the temporal 4 sound of an activated carbon monoxide sensor. When the listening module hears this sound it will send an alert to the alarm panel and trigger a carbon monoxide alarm. An example of a listening module used for this purpose is the Encore FireFighter FF345. You just need to make sure the listening module communicates at a wireless frequency that is compatible with your alarm system.

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