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Re: Garage Heaters - slightly off topic

To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Subject: Re: Garage Heaters - slightly off topic
From: "Michael Lupynec" <mlupynec@globalserve.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:49:40 -0500
I was being 'too kind' to First Alert. They later got taken over
by Sunbeam and Chainsaw Al.

Justice for all, but no liabity invited.

Mike L
60A,67E,59Bug

> I think I replaced the battery insert on the First Alert and
> after a month or two, had another false alarm, including the gas
> company coming out again. Good thing house calls are free. I got
a
> digital one (seems it has a bird name as a company, I forget)
and
> have had no problems since. That's 2 plus years.
>
> > 10 years ago the natural gas lobby did everything to kill the
Co
> > detector business. It was a learning curve and they have since
> > come around, but back then the First Alert battery operated,
short
> > sensor life, highly sensitive detector was causing many
> > accusations of false alarms (7000 in two nite in Chicago in
Dec
> > 23,1994).
>
>
> Ah ha.

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