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Carbon Dioxide detection

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Any one have a source for a plug in Carbon Dioxide detection??

2015. IFC

5307.5.2 Emergency alarm system.
An emergency alarm system shall comply with all of the following:

1. Continuous gas detection shall be provided to monitor areas where carbon dioxide can accumulate.

2. The threshold for activation of an alarm shall not exceed 5,000 parts per million (9,000 mg/m3).

3. Activation of the emergency alarm system shall initiate a local alarm within the room or area in which the system is installed.





OR, what are you seeing to meet the detection requirement??
 
I have never seen one.
Only Hard wire.
Would a plug in satisfy the requirement? what protection is there when it is dislodged or unplugged?
 
Thanks,

Not cheap, but I do not have to pay.

Just wondering how others are enforcing this.

I am guessing it is in no other I codes?

So wondering if the requirement is asked or looked for by ahj's????
 
You can Go to walmart or any box store and get a plug in CO detector. they work, as long as they dont get close to about 10 years from the manufactured date.
 
Not monoxide; dioxide
Walmart does not sell Dioxide detectors
Different gas
One toxic in low quantities.
 
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