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Homeowner and tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the X-Sense Portable Carbon Monoxide Alarm with its 10-year battery. Completely wireless, with a piercing alarm when you need it most. Don't take chances with your family's health and well-being: Get a carbon monoxide alarm for every level of your house, as recommended by safety experts.
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This carbon monoxide alarm lasts 10 years. Let's check it out. ♪♪��
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the Xsense Carbon Monoxide Alarm XC01
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And if you are a homeowner, if you're a renter, if you travel a lot
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you really want to have at least one of these in your house. In fact, it's recommended to have at least one on each level of your home
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And certainly you want to have one near the bedroom. So, what's carbon monoxide
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Carbon monoxide is a very dangerous but odorless gas that comes from having combustible things in your house
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For example, your stove or a fireplace. So, what happens in worst-case scenarios is that carbon monoxide can kill you
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You really don't want that to happen. And the way to avoid that is to have these sort of sensors
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Now, this one's really nice. It is a 10-year battery. So, basically, you put this on your wall
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It has a wall mount. It comes with screws. It even comes with a little paper guide
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so you can make sure you get the holes in the right place. Or you can even just stand it up, your bedside table or something
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and then if there is actually more carbon monoxide than is safe
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it will beep, and it's a super loud beep. I'll demonstrate that in just a second
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and wake you up and get you the heck out of the house before you have any health issues
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So, this is the kind of thing that you ideally never want it to go off
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You never want to have to deal with it. But if it does, just like a smoke alarm, right
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if it does go off, then that can be a life-and-death thing. So, really important
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Now, this one has an LCD display, and it can actually remember the worst maximum of the carbon monoxide level
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that it's experienced since the last time you reset it. So, you can look at it after some couple of months or even years
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and say, it's never greater than zero, which is exactly what you want
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Or, I wonder what happened here, that it was like 140 parts per million
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Now, the display can show you between 30 and 999 parts per million
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and I will tell you that the OSHA recommendation, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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is that your exposure limit should be 50 parts per million maximum
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But, it's over time. So, as they say in their little guide
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they actually have the alarm set so that if you experience 70 parts per million for over an hour, it will go off
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Or, 150 parts per million for 10 to 15 minutes. Or, if it's going way high and you have 400 or more parts per million
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after just a couple of minutes, it will start triggering, and you need to get the heck out of there
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Now, what happens is that typically people will then call the fire department
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and the fire department has much more sophisticated devices. They'll come to your home or your office, whatever
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and they'll actually run their sensors around, and then they'll figure out what's going on and make sure that it's safe
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for you and your children to go back into your house. That's important
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So, that peak value is good. It's obviously travel-friendly. This is self-contained, and it can just stand here
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So, I could take this to a hotel room. If I'm worried that I'm staying at, for example, a mountain cabin
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and they have an open fireplace, and they have a wood-burning stove right in the bedroom
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this could make the difference between you having a headache and feeling crummy
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and actually knowing that there are some air quality issues in that room
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and getting the heck out. So, it operates based on something called an electrochemical sensor
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which is kind of interesting. I mean, there's nothing you can see. It's a sealed unit
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But it's like a teeny, tiny little fuel cell. And in terms of the alarm, well, let's test it
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So, there is a button that is the test button. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to push it
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And so, that's the alarm. And you can hear that even halfway across your house
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you're not going to sleep through that. That is loud as heck. 85 decibels is pretty loud
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That hurts my ears. But that's what I want. If it's 3 in the morning, and for some reason this thing is triggering
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because maybe my gas stove was accidentally left on, and it's really starting to adversely affect air quality in the house
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then I want to wake up. And even if I'm groggy, I want to get the heck out, right
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So, it does its job. It does it well. You can test it every week, which is recommended
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And then one more comment is in terms of placement, that what the EPA says, the Environmental Protection Administration
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Association, whatever the A is, their recommendation is to have it 5 feet above the ground
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because that's sort of, on average, where your head is and where you're breathing
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And then you want to have one per level, definitely near your bedrooms
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Do not put it right by your stove. Do not put it immediately behind your fireplace
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because it will be triggering all the time. So again, remember that if you have like a wood stove
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it's going to emit some carbon monoxide, and that's probably okay. But when that starts to build up because you have a sealed room
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it's getting nice and warm, but your air quality is going down, that's when you want this to be telling you
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hey, you have an issue and you need to deal with it. So, that's what this will do
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Now, in terms of its dimensions, it's 5.3 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches
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and it's 3 ounces. Honestly, it feels like it weighs less than a single D battery
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It is super light. It would be really easy to just use double-sided tape
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and just stick this on a wall somewhere, and that would be a good way to do it
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Or, of course, like I said, it comes with a little mounting kit. You can do that
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It comes with an actually very surprisingly informative book, and there's some warning stickers
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There's some sales and service stuff, and perhaps most importantly, there's a sticker on the edge
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and what's recommended is you write down the date of install so that you know roughly 10 years later
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when you're going to need to just replace this with a new unit. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell
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they're not user-replaceable batteries, but that might not be true. You might be able to crack it open and try to figure it out
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But honestly, at this price, just buy a new one and know you have a brand new thing
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And that's it. This is what I got. I think this is actually a really important element of home safety
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I like that it's super loud. The LCD screen is pretty cool
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There's a big, bright flash and indicator light here that gives you different colors to indicate different things
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A single push will tell me that it is fully functional and everything's going fine
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and then I can then push again to turn it off of this test mode
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and that should hopefully turn it off. There we go. So now it's turned off again
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and you should do that every week or two when you come back from a long vacation or something
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So that's all I got. Super important to get these in your house
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They are not replacement for smoke detectors or smoke alarms. That's a different thing it's testing
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So you need to have both. Get them, install them, know that you're safe
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and you're taking care of yourself and your family. So let's talk about the price
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But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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Really appreciate it. It's super easy. A click or a tap on that little subscribe button on the lower right
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and we're connected. Sweet. This is the XSense Carbon Monoxide Alarm, and it is $29.99 at Amazon.com
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and the company does have a sort of wireless detector alarm network
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where each device can communicate with the other. For that interconnected version, it's $39.99
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But if you get XSense smoke detectors and XSense Carbon Monoxide Alarms
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then they can all go off if any of them goes off, which sounds a little daunting
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But remember, their entire job is to get you to wake up
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and get the heck out until you figure out what's going on and make sure that it's safe
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So the more, the merrier. But this, at its most basic and easy thing to travel with
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$29.99, Amazon.com. Get one. Be safe. That's all I got. I'll catch you in my next video
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