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    Quote Originally Posted by SolarPoweredRV View Post
    Dog farts can set off the detector.

    So can spilled beer (yes, that is alchohol abuse
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    Quote Originally Posted by WhittleBurner View Post

    So can spilled beer (yes, that is alchohol abuse
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    There should be a special, louder, alarm for that!
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    Dont know which is worse.... an alarm going off for a spilt alcoholic drink, or one going off due to a dog farting... LOL!!!

    And here I thought burning the popcorn was a bummer with the smoke detector during movie night in the RV....
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    Quote Originally Posted by jkwilson View Post
    There should be a special, louder, alarm for that!
    There is...

    It's when your Partner yells...

    OH SH>> I SPILLED MY BEER !!!!
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    I replaced ours recently. They tend to go bad after about 5 yeas.

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    Thanks everybody for the information. It has continued to go off, oddly enough at almost the same time each night, it also shut itself and gone back to showing green by the time I get to it never to be heard from again the rest of the day. I am beginning to go with the faulty sensor idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbgntx View Post
    Thanks everybody for the information. It has continued to go off, oddly enough at almost the same time each night, it also shut itself and gone back to showing green by the time I get to it never to be heard from again the rest of the day. I am beginning to go with the faulty sensor idea.
    Oddly enough, I was not kidding about the Dog Farts. Another poster mentioned that their alarm kept going off about the same time every night, turns out, that was the time the dog laid down at night with it's South end pointed toward the Propane Detector, and nature being nature, the dog relaxed and released toward the detector.

    Check your environment to see if something happens every night around the time of the alarm.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SolarPoweredRV View Post
    Oddly enough, I was not kidding about the Dog Farts. Another poster mentioned that their alarm kept going off about the same time every night, turns out, that was the time the dog laid down at night with it's South end pointed toward the Propane Detector, and nature being nature, the dog relaxed and released toward the detector.

    Check your environment to see if something happens every night around the time of the alarm.
    My late wife and I had a Doberman back in the '80s that was so flatulent my sister-in-law and her husband put the dog out in a north Texas ice storm at night while they were staying in our house (we were out of town) and dog sitting. They said they couldn't breath the air. The dog was bad, I'll have to admit (sweet dog otherwise). The dog's name was Mercy... I'm sure she would have set off the alarms in an RV.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbgntx View Post
    I was awakened by the propane alarm going off about 2:30 this morning. There was no smell of gas in the trailer in fact I haven't had the gas turned on for days. This is not the first time it has happened. I turned on the exhaust fan over the stove and let it run the rest of the night with no further issues. This is not the first time this has happened. Is there a device out there that can detect propane rather than rely on my questionable sense of smell or to check if the sensor is faulty? The sensor goes back to green light as soon as I hit the reset button.
    Just read this; Ours did the same thing last night at about 1:40 AM. Ours would not reset even when a fan was positioned to blow on it. I opened a window and turned on an overhead exhaust fan near the stove. Haven't used propane in days. No outside or inside combustion taking place. I am speculating the possibility of methane coming in through a gray tank whose valve to the ground was left open. I had to remove the sensor and cut one of the power leads to shut off the alarm. In three days a new sensor will be mounted to replace this one.
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    ^^ Mercy. Fitting name for a flatulent dog. LOL!
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