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- Page 1 CO-808S User Manual Carbon Monoxide Poisonous Gas Alarm With Sealed 6 Year Power Pack...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT OF AN INTRODUCTION ALARM FEATURES USEFUL NUMBERS CARBON MONOXIDE AND HOW IT TECHNICAL INFORMATION CAN AFFECT YOUR FAMILY DISPOSAL WHERE TO INSTALL YOUR DETECTOR 6 YEAR WARRANTY HOW TO INSTALL YOUR DETECTOR RETURNS POWER PACK ACTIVATION PRODUCT RANGE POWER PACK DEACTIVATION... -
Page 3: Introduction
Congratulations! You’ve made a wise investment • An advanced electrochemical sensor designed in an innovative product and your personal to accurately measure low levels of carbon safety. The FireAngel is one of a new generation monoxide (CO) providing an early warning of of domestic life safety products from FireAngel toxic CO levels in your home Limited, which combines the latest technology • Detects carbon monoxide continuously... -
Page 4: Carbon Monoxide And How It
In high Your FireAngel CO detector monitors the level of concentrations, CO can kill in minutes. CO as parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere Many cases of reported CARBON MONOXIDE of your property. - Page 5 • Any fossil fuel burning appliance Should you suspect CO may be affecting you or your family, open the doors and windows of your WARNING: This FireAngel carbon property to ventilate, turn off your appliances and monoxide detector is not a combustible evacuate the premises. At this time the authorities gas detector, nor a smoke detector.
- Page 6 ALWAYS WARNING: Do not use this carbon monoxide detector on an intermittent • Buy appliances accepted by a recognised testing basis, or as a portable detector for trying to laboratory trace one source of the spillage of combustion • Install appliances according to the manufacturer’s products from fuel-burning appliances or from instructions chimneys. • Have appliance installations carried out by professionals (CORGI registered for gas appliances)
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Page 7: Where To Install Your Detector
EDUCATE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY ON THE WHERE TO INSTALL YOUR SOURCES AND SYMPTOMS OF CO POISONING DETECTOR AND HOW TO USE YOUR CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR WARNING: This detector will only indicate the presence of carbon monoxide gas at the sensor. Carbon monoxide gas may be present in other areas. In which room should the detector be installed? Ideally, an apparatus should be installed in every room containing a fuel burning appliance. - Page 8 Where in the room should I place However, if there is a fuel burning appliance in more than one room and the number of apparatus the detector? is limited, the following points should be considered when deciding where best to put the apparatus: Apparatus located in the same room as a fuel- • Locate the apparatus in a room containing a burning appliance: flueless or open-flued appliance, and For both wall and ceiling mounted apparatus the • Locate apparatus in a room where the following applies: occupant(s) spend most time.
- Page 9 If the apparatus is located on the ceiling: • In an area where the temperature may drop a) it should be at least 300mm from any wall and below -10°C or exceed 40°C any ceiling obstruction e.g. light fittings. • Where dirt and dust may block the sensor • In a damp or humid location (for example in a Apparatus located in sleeping rooms and in rooms bathroom) remote from a fuel burning appliance: • In the immediate vicinity of the cooking appliance Apparatus located in sleeping rooms or located in rooms remote from the fuel-burning appliance should be located relatively close to the breathing zone of the occupants Where not to put the detector The apparatus should not be installed:...
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Page 10: How To Install Your Detector
HOW TO INSTALL YOUR DETECTOR NOTE: This Carbon Monoxide detector must be installed by a Fixing Holes competent person. Firstly write the installation date on the back of your alarm in the designated box. To Mount on a Shelf: We recommend that your detector is installed The detector has a flat base allowing it to simply on the wall. -
Page 11: Power Pack Activation
Your detector comes complete with an integrated pressing the Test/Reset button to confirm that the power pack that will power your detector for its entire operational life. To activate the power pack you need to pull the disabling tab (see image). This will in turn pull out the disabling clip, which is attached to the end of the ribbon, from the disabling plug which is situated on the underside of the detector. Retain the disabling tab by taping it inside the cover of this manual. b. When the detector is activated both LEDs will flash and the detector will chirp momentarily. c. Your advanced FireAngel detector requires a short warm up period before it is fully operational. If you have followed all of the above steps correctly, your unit will begin monitoring for CO in around 3 minutes. When the 3 minute warm-up period is complete, the green power LED will flash once per minute to indicate that the detector is receiving power from the power pack and is fully operational (if your detector chirps or enters... -
Page 12: Power Pack Deactivation
POWER PACK sound as soon as the button is pressed, and the DEACTIVATION LEDs will flash indicating that the horn is working and the power pack is providing power to the unit. Your CO-808S is portable, making it ideal for This test for the horn, power pack and circuitry taking with you on holiday. You will need to should be performed on a weekly basis. deactivate your detector when travelling or even when storing ie. when decorating. Fitting is the WARNING: Prolonged exposure to reverse of removal. -
Page 13: Operating Features
OPERATING FEATURES horn is working and the power pack is providing power to the unit. This test for the horn, battery Your FireAngel detector offers many features which set it apart from other CO detectors on the market today. Test/Reset... -
Page 14: Testing The Sensor
and circuitry should performed on a weekly basis. CAUTION: Sensor testing should only be performed by a responsible Testing The Sensor adult. This test should only be performed once a NOTE: We suggest the use of an month. Excessive testing will cause the life of incense stick or cigarette as the the power pack to be shortened. - Page 15 Removal from the Test/Reset backing plate Button Step 2 Cover the sounder vent with your left thumb/ finger. Press and hold the Test/Reset button down with your right thumb/finger until the green power LED stops flashing and only the red alarm LED flashes once per second (this should happen after around 5 seconds). Release the Test/Reset button. Upon releasing the Test/Reset button the green be sure to blow out the flame so that the power LED will begin to flash twice in quick incense stick is smouldering. Extinguish the succession every 5 seconds. This indicates lighter, or put out the match and place it that the detector is now monitoring for CO into a dish of water. every second and may be tested using a known source of CO. Step 4 Turn the alarm on its side so that the vents nearest the Test/Reset button on the Step 3 Light a cigarette or an incense stick using side of the alarm are pointing downward a match or lighter.
- Page 16 (see diagram below). Hold the burning monoxide level within the sensor to more cigarette or incense stick 15 - 20 cm (6 - than 100ppm will cause the horn to sound 8 inches) below the detector, so that the momentarily and the green power LED smoke enters the vents on the side of the to illuminate continuously for a short time detector. An increase in the localised carbon and then flash rapidly. (Note - It may take up to 3 minutes of exposure to the smoke for the localised level of carbon monoxide within the sensor to reach over 100 ppm. In addition please note that the full alarm will only sound if excessive amounts of CO are detected during this short test). Now move the source of CO away from the detector as the test is finished. Step 5 After step 4, put out the incense stick or cigarette by placing it into a dish of water. Ensure that all flames have been 15 - 20cm extinguished.
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Page 17: Understanding The Product's
UNDERSTANDING THE Step 6 After around four minutes the detector will PRODUCT’S INDICATORS return to normal monitoring mode and the green LED will flash once per minute. The higher the concentration of carbon monoxide detected by the alarm, the quicker it will respond. When sufficient carbon monoxide is detected a loud audible signal (85 dB at 1m (3 feet)) will be emitted and the red alarm LED will flash 4 times every second. -
Page 18: Maintaining/Testing Your Detector
NOTE: This does NOT mean that the alarm has hazardous CO concentrations in your home when detected carbon monoxide. maintained properly. To maintain your FireAngel detector in proper working order, and to ensure Low Power Pack Signal: that the sensor will last for the lifetime of the product, it is recommended that you: At the end of the product’s life, it will emit a... -
Page 19: What To Do In The Event Of An Alarm
To prevent the possibility of contaminating the sensor WHAT TO DO IN THE in your alarm and thus affecting its reliability: EVENT OF AN ALARM • N ever use cleaning solutions on your detector. Simply wipe with a slightly damp cloth. WARNING: A loud alarm is a warning • D o not paint the detector. that unusually high and potentially lethal • D o not spray aerosols on or near the detector. levels of carbon monoxide are present. Never • D o not use any solvent based products near the ignore this alarm, further exposure can be fatal. -
Page 20: Useful Numbers
• Evacuate the property leaving the doors and USEFUL NUMBERS windows open. • Ring your gas or other fuel supplier on their National Gas Emergency Service - emergency number; keep the number in a 0800 111 999 (24hours) prominent place. Write your fuel supplier’s emergency number CORGI - 0800 915 0485 here (see opposite for more useful numbers): Solid Fuel Association (Advisory service for domestic solid fuel appliances) - 0845 601 4406 ____________________________________ HETAS (Trade association for solid fuel • Do not re-enter the property until the alarm has engineers) - 0845 223 3033... -
Page 21: Technical Information
-10ºC (14ºF) to 40ºC (104ºF) Operating Humidity Range: 30 - 90% RH Weight: 185 grams (6.5oz) Certified to: BS EN 50291 : 2001 The FireAngel carbon monoxide detector is designed to continuously monitor for CO. It’s response times meet the requirements of BSI standard BS EN 50291 : 2001. The alarm will sound: • When concentrations of CO of more than 30ppm but not more than 50ppm have been detected for more than 2 hours. • Between 60 and 90 minutes when exposed to 50ppm of CO. • Between 10 and 40 minutes when exposed to 100ppm of CO. -
Page 22: Disposal
WARNING: APPARATUS DISPOSAL CONFORMING TO THIS STANDARD MAY NOT PROTECT PEOPLE WHO ARE AT Waste electrical products should not be disposed SPECIAL RISK FROM CARBON MONOXIDE of with regular household waste. Please recycle EXPOSURE REASON AGE, where facilities exist. Check with your local PREGNANCY OR MEDICAL CONDITION. -
Page 23: Year Warranty
Ltd, at its discretion, agrees to replace the unit FireAngel Ltd will not recognise any changes to free of charge. The warranty on any replacement this warranty by third parties. FireAngel Ltd shall... -
Page 24: Returns
(this is to prevent unnecessary returns that take a longer time to process). Please quote the product model number CO-808S. If there is a fault that we are unable to resolve then our technical support engineer will issue you with a returns authority number so that your product can be returned for testing. -
Page 25: Product Range
PRODUCT RANGE FireAngel Ltd manufactures an extensive range of home safety products including smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, fire extinguishers and remote sounding devices. For more details visit www.fireangel.co.uk. Ref: GN0095/R1... - Page 26 Independently tested to conform to BS EN 50291:2001 Technical Support Line 024 7623 6663 (1-800 523171 in Eire) E-mail: technicalsupport@fireangel.co.uk Web: www.fireangel.co.uk FireAngel Ltd. The Technocentre, Puma Way, Coventry CV1 2TT UK Ref: GN0095/R1...
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