I always had our caravans serviced by established workshops or mobile engineers. Before CO detectors were introduced I used the colour changing stickersā¦.,remember those?
Your comment is unrequired as all I was saying in my post #18 is that I can accept just testing the alarm works by pressing its test button. Do you use CO and smoke canisters every time you do a functional test on your detectors. I donāt, but at home the smoke and CO detectors are ā testedā monthly by test button, and the caravan detectors would be checked prior to each trip.
What evidence do you have that Kidde alarms fail the functional test, thats a rather sweeping statement. I never had a report from my AWS service that the alarm had failed its CO test.
You didnāt quantify by saying you have it tested other than with the test button, as said before this doesnāt test the CO sensor just the electronics, bit like saying there is nothing wrong with my caravan battery as it shows 13v, it doesnāt prove anything until itās tested correctly. And actually I do have detectagas, I use it on the house CO alarms fairly regularly š
I didnāt say all Kiddie ones fail, and I didnāt say yours did fail either, but I know that a lot of them (Kiddie ones) do fail, as it happens I know a lot of AWS engineers that comment on them.
A lot of the Kiddie Co alarms with go partial alarm as in pip every so often when tested, but donāt go to full alarm. The Fire Angel variants donāt seem to have the same issue.