Carbon Monoxide Detector

Don’t take your smoke detector or battery for granted. Smoke will kill thousands each year. A smoke detector with a working battery adds seconds when seconds count. Death by fire should not occur in this or any country. I’ve got the solution, I just need help making it. Let’s give that senior citizen or disabled person extra time to get out. Firefighter invented, patented new invention.

Here the PM1703M scintillation counter is used to detect the gamma radiation from Americium-241, which is used in ionizing-type smoke detectors. Americium-241 emits low energy gammas (59.5 kev).

This is the first video made for the QC Report. I have three rules: I must do it all in one take, I can’t use notes and I must have a cup of tea. It’s an experiment — let’s see how it works out. Also, I disabld the comments here on youtube (because they get pretty odd) so if you want to leave or read comments, come over to the qcreport. (www.qcreport.com)

Rockford inspector Discusses Carbon Monoxide Detectors

A smoke detector is a device that detects smoke. Commercial, industrial, and mass residential devices issue a signal to a fire alarm system, while household detectors, known as smoke alarms, generally issue a local audible and/or visual alarm from the detector itself. Smoke detectors are typically housed in a disk-shaped plastic enclosure about 150 millimetres (6 in) in diameter and 25 millimetres (1 in) thick, but the shape can vary by manufacturer or product line. Most smoke detectors work either by optical detection (photoelectric) or by physical process (ionization), while others use both detection methods to increase sensitivity to smoke. Smoke detectors in large commercial, industrial, and residential buildings are usually powered by a central fire alarm system, which is powered by the building power with a battery backup. However, in many single family detached and smaller multiple family housings, a smoke alarm is often powered only by a single disposable battery.