Kidde KN-COEG-3 Nighthawk Plug-In Carbon Monoxide and Explosive Gas Alarm with Battery Backup
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Kidde KN-COEG-3 Nighthawk Plug-In Carbon Monoxide and Explosive Gas Alarm with Battery Backup
Customer Review: Frustrating and buggy
Summary: 2 Stars
Device is too riddled with problems. If there's a false alarm, or the battery's dead, you can't shut it up. Annoying, buggy, and the 3-digit display doesn't give you enough information to know what to do. The battery cover keeps falling-off and is annoying to put back on. I would suggest getting another brand.Customer Review: False alarms
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased this combo unit because I wanted a good unit that I wouldn't have to replace every other year. What I received was a unit that gave me explosive gas false alarms in the middle of the night. Since I work as a cumbustion engineer and knew that based on the fact that there was no smell, there was no chance that I was in a hazordous situation. It spent a number of nights in the garage so that I could go back to sleep.Customer Review: Defective Design - Too Sensitive
Summary: 1 Stars
We started getting false alarms with this model about 4 - 6 months after I installed them. The explosive gas alarm sounds at the first odor of any bathroom spray, alcohol fume, perfume, alcoholic beverage opened, and has put us all in a dissatisfied state. I am a state certified firefighter on a fire department and had my three units tested and they all failed with false positives even at our firehouse. Yes they alarm with Nat Gas and Propane but also with too many other fume types. I called Kiddie and they have sent replacements but they too have falsely triggered. I will ask they replace them with CO Alarms model instead of the COEG.
I strongly believe in having a carbon monoxide and smoke alarms, however we will never buy a explosive gas alarms until someone makes one that is reliable.
Customer Review: beware. It works.
Summary: 1 Stars
In our family this is known as the FBT (B=beepie T=thing and the F I will leave to your imagination.)
The problem? It works. Too well. It works if you bake a fish, refinish a floor, vacuum near it, burn some toast, do your nails, spray air freshener, run a space heater.... you get the picture. It has a piercing, screaming wail that will drive you insane. And a battery back-up to insure that should a frustrated homehowner try to shut it up by taking it outside and throwing it into the wet bushes, say, or even a pile of snow, it will continue to beep all night long. Loudly. Prompting a police call from a concerned neighbor. It has an apparently infinite power source. Terrorists would do well to stock up on several of these at the new low price.
I wonder how many of these have been destroyed by irate consumers?
Picture this: you have just sanded a floor and are nearly finished applying the polyurethane when the FBT chooses that very moment to go off. You look up sadly across the expanse of newly varnished floor, realizing there is no way to reach the FBT and throw it against a nearby tree. You know that cutting the power to that outlet will do you no good because your ultra responsible husband put in fresh batteries recently. What to do?
Simple. A hotel.
Do not buy the FBT. Unless you are a sadist.
Customer Review: Throw it away!
Summary: 1 Stars
We had this unit for a year with no problem, then the false alarms started for explosive gas. The first time, I called the fire department, who responded promptly and checked the house from top to bottom. Everything was fine. They suggested that paint fumes might have set it off. A few more weeks and 2 more false alarms later, I realized it was going off every time I cooked with alcohol. Veal marsala, ribs cooked in beer, deglazing the pan with brandy, all made the alarm go off. Tonight, I realized the alarm was unplugged after the latest episode of the exploding beer alarm, and plugged it back in. Within minutes, the explosive gas alarm was going off again. What is it time? The full garbage can? Turpentine in the basement? Latex paint? Who knows. I think the real problem with this is that we are going WITHOUT a CO detector every time we leave this thing unplugged. I will go out TOMORROW and buy a CO only alarm.