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Downloadable Carbon Monoxide Customer Brochure
For those who use CO and combustion test instruments, here is a CO informational brochure you can put your company name/logo on and distribute to your customers. It's set up to be printed on a legal sized sheet of paper.
Downloadable Carbon Monoxide Response Form
While it is difficult to anticipate (and develop a form) for every conceivable situation which may result in carbon monoxide exposure, this form attempts to address the issues and sources potentially involved.
To download the form in pdf format, click here.
To download the form in Word or doc format, click here.
We suggest turning the instrument on outside, before entering the structure, to establish ambient CO levels. We feel strongly that there is no acceptable level for indoor CO levels. Anything above outside levels indicates that:
For example, just because you only read 5 ppm's (above outside, ambient levels) which is considered 'OK' by many authorities of jurisdiction, doesn't mean that the levels couldn't have been much higher several hours before you got there.
It is also very important to understand how your particular instrument calibrates during it's warm up cycle. Some Bacharach instruments such as the PCA and Model 300 do an 'automatic' calibration during the warm up period. This means that the instrument will attempt to calibrate to zero regardless of actual levels.
For example, if the CO level is 25 parts per million (ppm) where the instrument is turned on, the reading will be zero after the 60 second warm up period. Bacharach engineers did design the instrument so that if CO levels are above approximately 80 ppm's during the warm up period, a CO sensor error will be displayed in the screen after the warm up period.
Bacharach's Monoxor II is designed to do a 'manual' calibration when turned on. This means that it will read actual levels after the several second warm up period. One issue to keep in mind with the Monoxor II is the 'zero adjust' screw on the front. DO NOT zero the instrument, for example, every time you turn it on. This may result in a "false zero".
We suggest you only zero the instrument occasionally and only when certain you are in a CO free atmosphere. The CO sensors in Bacharach instruments are very stable sensors, having to frequently zero the sensor may be an indication the sensor is reaching the end of its serviceable life (typically 4 or 5 years).
Bacharach's newest instrument, the Fyrite Pro, can be configured to do either a 'manual' or 'automatic' calibration during the 60 second warm up period (it comes from the factory set up for automatic calibration). For a step by step description on how to configure the instrument for manual or automatic calibration go to the Fyrite Pro Initial Set Up and Configuration page.