

| Subject: | RECALL of CO detectors (No vanagon content) |
| From: | Bob Stratton |
| Date: | Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:29:15 -0400 |
At 11:22 PM 1999-04-17 -0400, Karl F. Bloss wrote: >> I am considering installing a battery-operated carbon monoxide >The gas company came out with their high-tech CO sniffers and >determined that the problem was not anything in our house, but that >First Alert CO detectors are junk. They recommended Nighthawk brand. > We got one and it's been fine. It has an LED PPM readout and did >detect when I ran my motorcycle in the garage (door open, of course) >and some CO crept into the house, so we know it's working. > >I don't know if Nighthawk makes a battery operated model. I also have a Nighthawk, but happened upon a notice on the Internet that some of the Nighthawks and others made at the saem factory have been recalled due to the possibility of false negatives. The CPSC notice is at the following URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml99/99082.html
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