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Supply house CO readings

is forklifts that have not been properly maintained and are making excessively high levels of CO. My belt worn CO detector goes off every time I go to a certain supply house which also by the way burns a waste oil heater.

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  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    Do your counter guys a favor .... do a CO test

    I am absolutely amazed at the number of HVACR supply houses that have elevated CO readings, even in the counter areas.

    Three of the four distrubtors I've done training at this month have been in the 15 to 25 ppm levels - and that's in the evenings after the forklift (the most likely culprit) has been shut down for the day....

    These folks are being poisoned all day long...

    Here is a photo of an instrument's readings last night:
  • dave_87
    dave_87 Member Posts: 1


    are you sure your bacharach is calibrated and giving accurate readings ?
  • Maybe that explains

    the deer-in-the-headlights look they sometimes give us....

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  • Brad White_33
    Brad White_33 Member Posts: 16
    I do not see any

    movement behind the counter....

    :)
  • Bill Nye_2
    Bill Nye_2 Member Posts: 538
    City streets?

    City streets , lots of traffic?? At my supply house during rush hour you almost need a traffic cop to cross the street. The door to the counter area opens right onto the street. I wonder if automobile emmissions could .... ?

    Forklifts, you know they are running good when the exhaust burns your eyes and throat. I just walk through the warehouse , these guys are there for 8-9 hrs.
  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    Yep

    Plus, I had the NCI and CO-Experts alarms sitting right there reading exactly the same thing....

    I calibrate my own instrument probably 1/2 dozen times a month - mostly showing folks how easy it is to calibrate.

  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    May also explain...

    May also explain the deer in the headlights look I have as well!!!
  • stevel_2
    stevel_2 Member Posts: 1
    CO

    most likely cause is the vehicle exhaust at the loading
    bay's, in a building without air makeup the fumes just go where the wind sends it. I'm speaking from personal experience
    AS on some day's you go home with a headache that isn't
    caused by cranky customers.
  • bob_50
    bob_50 Member Posts: 306
    source?

    can human flatulence produce CO? :D
  • Larry Savino
    Larry Savino Member Posts: 63


    What type of heat I see so often the "room vented" (notice I did not say Non vented,vent free vent less)units up above the counter blasting down on you in the winter.

    No such thing as a vent less unit they are all room vented meaning they put the by products of burning a fossil fuel into the air you breathe
  • Gary Reecher
    Gary Reecher Member Posts: 111


    Dr. Tom Greiner stated in his presentation that forklift manufacturers stated to him that they make electric forklifts for warehouses, gas operated forklifts are for outdoors.

    MechAcc
  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    bob

    Probably only if there is an available source of ignit.... well, let's not go there (although I'm sure most of you have)!!!
  • Ted_9
    Ted_9 Member Posts: 1,718


    Hey Rudy, good to see you around. Keep up the good work.

    BTW, I met you at a training class in Watertown, MA(?) and at boston ISH, i think.

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