Carbon Monoxide / CO detectors / analyzers

[cabio]

I'm not an expert in this. I can only submit the problem on this board to solicit other people's experiences.

After reading this article I would look for a minimum reading of 10 p.p.m.

The aeromedix (2002) model originally displayed from 5 p.p.m.
but the new model (2004) displays only from 10 p.p.m. ???

The plastic bag and this detector is the best solution so far but I'm still looking.

Don't want to seem to cautious but when you've known an experienced diver that died because of contaminated air and are diving with your teenage son you don't feel like being told that old compressor in the back is "No problemo" without any means of checking it.

Safe diving.

 

[cabio]

Someone has put a lot of effort to come up with what seams like a great solution. Check this out.

http://www.denninger.net/diving/co-analyzer.htm

http://www.diversunion.org/news.htm

 

[pasley]

I never really thought about this question until this months Alert Diver from DAN came with the article that 5% of the SCUBA air tested in one sample state were over the legal limit of CO. Perhaps a portable tester is a good idea. I know I am considering the purchase of one.

 

[cabio]

Here's another detector.
Safe diving.

 

[black_sea]

I will be traveling a lot for dives and thus am thinking about the need for a CO analyzer.

wonder if the cheapest route would be using a CO/CMO sensor hooked up to a laptop- found this one for 99 USD but there should be lots others...
look for "USB carbon monoxide"
Temperature Dataloggers And Compact USB Dataloggers - Cole-Parmer Catalog
usb carbon monoxide sensor - Google Search
Then of course there are the sensors you hook up to a multimeter- look for "carbon monoxide multimeter"
This one is USD 30
Fluke CO-210 Carbon Monoxide Test Probe for Multimeter
The CO-210 Carbon Monoxide Probe detects the presence of carbon monoxide and measures concentrations between 1-1000 parts per million.

The probe can be used in one of two ways. As a stand-alone unit that indicates the presence of CO by a flashing, light-emitting diode and a beeper.

As an accessory to a digital multimeter that reads out 1 PPM as 1 mV dc.

Requires Cable with RJ45 connector and plug (Fluke PN 689307) to connect to a digital multimeter.
http://discountsales.com/shop/shop_cgi/browse.php?sku=1274283764

Engineers, please comment, will this probe simpl supply 1mV for every 1PPM of Carbon Monoxide, meaning you can hook it up to any multimeter that reads mV?

 

[Scared Silly]

BSea - do a search on ToxiRae 3 and SwampDiver here in the forums. Pete (SwampDiver) has done lots of testing of CO units. I am using a ToxiRae 3 for my testing 150 USD.

One comment about the laptop usage - the cylinders are at the dock or on the boat which means you have bring your laptop there. Not something I would want to do.

 

[black_sea]

Scared Silly, lots of people have computers on the boat, and those netbooks are really cheap now.
it is a viable solution.
What's more, does not the CO sensor wear out in 4 years, as I understand it?
If you have just a sensor and all read-out is done externally, you are talking a savings of $70 every 4 years over an all-included unit.
Not much, but think about it this way- if we find a wholesale solution, these babies will be $20 per sensor.