Death by Carbon Monoxide

[RichardS]

Its manual states:
The alarm should not be installed:
....
• In a damp or humid location

So perfect for the cabin of a boat where someone might be sleeping.

Richard

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Just remember that a sensitive sub £20 piece of elecronics is not likely to be reliable after a few months in a damp environment, like a lot of boats.
It's no substitute for proper kit that isn't trying to kill you and no excuse for plain stupid behaviour like generators with exhausts on deck or in the cockpit, or bringing the smouldering barbeque out of the rain.
Most people who kill themselves or others with CO have done pretty stupid things.

CO also makes you stupid!

 

[Happy Dayz]

I did not realise there are different models specifically for boats.

Few years back a bungalow was left empty a few doors up after the owner passed away (natural causes), relative came and and emptied the place ready to sell it, as they lived up north and we were friend p's of out neighbour we offered to hold keys and meet buyers etc.

That winter we had very deep snow, when this happens I clear snow from patches, check on the local elderly people they are ok, heating is on and have enough hot food etc.

As I'm walking round and I can hear this smoke alarm sounding, I thought it was streets away at first, but it was coming from the bungalow. Went and got the keys and entered, pipe had burst in the loft resulting in water every where, must have leaked for some time, but the noise was coming from a cheap smoke alarm attached to the loft trap, I guess by the fire brigade.

It had water pouring right through it like a shower head, I was astonished it was still sounding loudly after I assume.several hours from a 9 volt battery.

People are quick to knock cheap gear out if hand, I to that end would always advocate better quality for safety equipment but it's a grudge sale, and pennies mean 'bargains' struck.

This very cheap app £4.00 gadget had saved further severe damage being done to the buildings structure, ironic it was due to water ingress not smoke it had detected, no idea had been a fire and smoke if it would have worked though lol!

Alan

 

[sarabande]

for those among you happy to rely on the "headache will make me go outside" philosophy, might consider the OODA loop diagram below, used to train fighter pilots to react to airborne problems or hostile action.

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and ask yourself where a single point of failure in the sequence might have negatively terminal effects on a desired outcome. This is not hot air or fighting for points on the forum, but trying to emphasise the benefits of the principle of redundancy in critical systems management.

 

[RichardS]

for those among you happy to rely on the "headache will make me go outside" philosophy ......

Please do tell us which one of us is that person.

Richard

 

[JumbleDuck]

for those among you happy to rely on the "headache will make me go outside" philosophy ...

That would be "absolutely nobody", then.

 

[oldbilbo]

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.....This is not hot air or fighting for points on the forum,

I must remember to unfold a copy of that the next time I'm barrelling down a runway, full-load, at Vrotate with the boundary fence charging towards me at 150 knots - and an engine 'surges' out.

Do I pull t'other one back and hit the brakes? Do I try to get airborne on the good one, climb away, and fix it later? Or do I eject and leave the navigator to sort it out....?

Too late. Options have expired.... and you're about to.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Too late. Options have expired.... and you're about to.

I thought we'd covered this. If you have a headache, pull the handle and get out. Honestly, do I have to do all the thinking around here?

 

[oldbilbo]

"On this aircraft, the Executive Word of Command to Eject is F-U-U-K!!
If you ask why, you'll be talking to yourself."