The carbon monoxide (CO) detector is designed to monitor the CO gas level in residential dwellings and give early warning before potentially dangerous levels exist. The CO alarm is transmitted to the PowerMax+ (version F and up) or PowerMax Pro and presented on its display.
The CO gas is considered to be a highly dangerous poisonous gas because it is colorless, odorless, tasteless and very toxic. Presence of CO gas inhibits the blood's capacity to transport oxygen throughout the body, which can eventually lead to brain damage. CO gas is produced by incomplete combustion of fuels (such as natural gas, propane, heating oil, kerosene, coal, charcoal, gasoline or wood) that can occur in any device that depends on burning for energy and heat (such as furnaces, boilers, room heaters, hot water heaters, stoves, grills and in any gasoline powered vehicle or engine).
Before CO harmful level is reached, the detector's internal buzzer beeps sound periodically and the detector's red LED flashes. In this condition, the buzzer sound can be stopped for 6 minutes by pressing the TEST/MUTE switch. It will not correct the CO gas problem, but will temporarily silence the buzzer while you correct the problem. After 6 minutes, the detector restarts alarm if the CO level remains high.