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1 hour ago, Patriot said:

John,

I stepped in XPLOR this afternoon and checked on our dehumidifier. While inside I noticed that the strong odor of the antifreeze we used to winterize has greatly diminished. I could still detect a slight odor but nothing like it was. So after inserting ear plugs as the alarm as you know is ear piercing and I decided to reattach the RV Safe LP/CO detector. The green light came on in normal and the detector did not go off. 🤞🏻 Our Ollie is parked in our Hangar in the backyard allows us to actually hear the detector if it alarms. I also took @topgun2 suggestion and covered the porcelain throne with Saran Wrap and I also covered grey water drains with a little painters tape. I will let you know if our alarm goes off again as this is week 3 after winterizing. I think leaving two windows open even with our cover on really helped disparate the antifreeze odor. 

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I used saran wrap to cover the toilet bowl, kitchen drain, and shower drain. I weighed a piece of rubber over the saran wrap. Drain plug in bathroom sink

 Also covered the toilet with a baking soda scented garbage bags.

 

Small fan blowing. However tomorrow we take the trailer to storage, a one hour drive, so I would hate to get a call from the manager and have another 2 hour round trip🙃

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1 hour ago, Zodd said:

On the topic of humidity when winterized in the trailer what all do you target and use? I figured I could do <50 using damprid but using that has hardly had much effect and humidity is staying at about 72% which feels too high. I put a second damprid in thinking maybe it just needs two but no impact. The trailer is covered with vents closed. Maybe I need to open vents?  Just figured with it being covered opening vents would not do much and maybe even make it worse living in the inland northwest. 

We have used this dehumidifier successfully since 2020 until the temps get below 40 degrees. It has served us well.

We have never used damp rid.

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46 minutes ago, John Dorrer said:

However tomorrow we take the trailer to storage, a one hour drive, so I would hate to get a call from the manager and have another 2 hour round trip🙃

Since you  know that there really isn't any CO nor propane in the camper while it is in storage - why not simply take the fuse out of the detector.

However, if you do this, please make sure in some manner that you put that fuse back in before using the Ollie the next time.

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46 minutes ago, topgun2 said:

Since you  know that there really isn't any CO nor propane in the camper while it is in storage - why not simply take the fuse out of the detector.

However, if you do this, please make sure in some manner that you put that fuse back in before using the Ollie the next time.

Bill

Wonder if you could take saran wrap and just cover it?

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1 hour ago, Patriot said:

We have used this dehumidifier successfully since 2020 until the temps get below 40 degrees. It has served us well.

We have never used damp rid.

We use a similar one from Amazon, In our humid environment the tank fills up in about a week. Has worked very well. Prior to this I was buying damp rid every 2 weeks. 

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1 hour ago, Derek B said:

We use a similar one from Amazon, In our humid environment the tank fills up in about a week. Has worked very well. Prior to this I was buying damp rid every 2 weeks. 

What is the humidity level in the trailer when you do this?

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41 minutes ago, Zodd said:

What is the humidity level in the trailer when you do this?

Not sure, I have never measured it with anything, but I can tell a big difference in the way it feels inside after being closed up. Your question has me curious now. Will have to look into taking a measurement. 

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15 hours ago, Patriot said:

We use two 1-gallon containers of DampRid, and 2-packets of Eva-Dry Charcoal packets in the bathroom and closet when trailer is stored. We have a plug in dehumidifier and use Eva-Dry charcoal packets, and a rechargeable dehumidifier when traveling.

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Where is the fuse for the CO Detector?  Fuse box? In the detector?  If in the detector how do you get to it?

 

Even with everything covered and a fan on the floor, it was going off this morning. Leaving to take it to storage in a couple of hours.

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53 minutes ago, John Dorrer said:

Where is the fuse for the CO Detector?  Fuse box? In the detector?  If in the detector how do you get to it?

 

Even with everything covered and a fan on the floor, it was going off this morning. Leaving to take it to storage in a couple of hours.

John, I just txted you. 

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Go to the back side of the detector and follow the wires.  Shortly, you should run into a black round thing that is the fuse holder.

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I ended up covering the CO Detector with saran wrap and tape. Went 24 hours without a beep. Asked the manager at our storage place to listen for beeping. Couldn't find the fuse, well I could a black fuse holder, but wasn't completely sure if it was for CO Detector, so used Saran Wrap.

 

This whole thing is very strange as I was using the same TV antifreeze from Ace Hardware that I used in 2022 and 2023.

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On 11/6/2024 at 8:34 AM, John Dorrer said:

I ended up covering the CO Detector with saran wrap and tape. Went 24 hours without a beep. Asked the manager at our storage place to listen for beeping. Couldn't find the fuse, well I could a black fuse holder, but wasn't completely sure if it was for CO Detector, so used Saran Wrap.

 

This whole thing is very strange as I was using the same TV antifreeze from Ace Hardware that I used in 2022 and 2023.

It may not be the same formulation. And, your detector is a year older than last year.

The saran wrap was genius. Imo

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1 hour ago, SeaDawg said:

It may not be the same formulation. And, your detector is a year older than last year.

The saran wrap was genius. Imo

Yep. 3rd year with detector, but not sure what the date is on the back. Weird that this has happened to a number of people. May need to check out another source.

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I replaced my CO detector this summer even though it was not going off, but since it was a 2018 Ollie, I wanted to replace it before it started alarming due to age.

When I took the old one off, the back said it was a 2017 detector.

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