Carbon Monoxide test

this video was NOT taken in the flue, this was in ambient air 3" from the flue pipe - where the flue fits into the collar of the stove.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/duffy_5669/A2Z%20-%20Nightmares/th_COTest_218TauschmanRd_12_9_08034.jpg

Sorry for the poor lighting … I did not have enough hands to hold the co detector, camera and flashlight. :mrgreen:

What was going on visualy?
Second question is how you got the vid on here.

I am with Bob, Chris, how did you post that movie on here.

I know the camera takes videos, and I have photo bucket too, now thanks to you, so does all of this go together somehow. >???:):smiley:

Absolutely Marcel, I shot a short movie with the camera, downloaded it with the pictures I took uploaded them all to photobucket and pasted the link in the thread. I did nothing extraordinary … just copy and paste.

Bob That video was taken while running this coal stove. Arrow shows where the majority of the spillage was detected.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/duffy_5669/A2Z%20-%20Nightmares/COTest_218TauschmanRd_12_9_08026-1.jpg

What your seeing is the amount of CO in the ambient air in real time. :shock:
Never had a reading like this in ambient space … hell never had a reading that high when I was performing a combustion analysis.

I stopped it at 500 ppm … I didn’t have to see t shoot up to 1000 ppm + to see the problem. Client shut the unit down right away, and was calling the installer and a chimney sweep asap.

reading 18 ft away as soon as I walked in the front door.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/duffy_5669/A2Z%20-%20Nightmares/COTest_218TauschmanRd_12_9_08022.jpg

How often is it necessary to calibrate CO sensors?

Every 6 months

Thanks Chris, now I will have to try it. ha. ha.

Looks like they might have had a little spillage at the thimble too, from the looks of it.

Marcel :D:D

As well as at the name plate Marcel

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/duffy_5669/A2Z%20-%20Nightmares/COTest_218TauschmanRd_12_9_08021.jpg

As the manufacturer recommends.

Bacharach 6 months

Testo 1 year

Now Bacharach’s new Insight Combustion Meter is making calibration at the field level. You order a sensor replace the sensor and the electronics calibrates the sensor to the meter. New sensor comes with a calibration certificate. You ship the old sensor back to Bacharach. When my PCA-25 dies I would seriously think of getting this meter.

I am guessing there was some sort of gap in the flue at the back that was visible.

I got a call last week from a condo assoc. or building owner who wanted me to do CO testing of a condo that had the CO alarm go off every time the tenant fired up her oven. I suggested he call an appliance servicing contractor to inspect and adjust her appliance or I could come out for $150 and recommend an evaluation by an appliance servicing contractor. He got the hint.:mrgreen::mrgreen:

HA HA
I get calls like that for other systems and do the same.

No CO detector in the house?

alarming!

Btw Does anyone use a UEI CO71A ? have you had it calibrated and how?
I will need to know this for the future.

Here’s a source for the operation manual. http://www.ueitest.com/IMAGES/Product%20Manuals/CO71A%20Web%20Manual.pdf

I have a Scott-Bacharach Mini SA CO alarm that I carry not for testing but for safety. The kit came with a cylinder of reference CO for calibration testing.

very nice thank you!
actually i have a cylinder for calibration testing it was intended for home co detectors i think. i can try that,