Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-02 09:58pm

Our furnace is majorly fucked up right now.

It is turned off, yet it is on.

The CO detector is saying 90ppm.

How much is lethal?

Update: At 124ppm

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-02 10:06pm

You can get a nice hotel room for $100.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-02 10:09pm

Darth Wong wrote:You can get a nice hotel room for $100.

Aye, but what is lethal?

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:11pm

Ted wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:You can get a nice hotel room for $100.
Aye, but what is lethal?

Stop risking your life. Get off the net and call the fire department. Let them worry about it.

CO effects:

200 ppm: Slight symptoms (headache, discomfort) after several hours of exposure.

400 ppm: Headache and discomfort experienced within 2-3 hours of exposure.

1,000 -2000 ppm: Within 30 minutes, slight palpitations of the heart occur. Within 1.5 hours, there is a tendency to stagger. Within 2 hours, there is mental confusion, headache, and nausea.

2000-2500 ppm: Unconsciousness within 30 minutes.

>2500 ppm: Potential for collapse and death before warning symptoms are produced.

prolonged exposure to low levels of CO can be fatal.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-02-02 10:17pm

Get the damn fire department on that fucking furnace NOW! When they're done ripping it out, shoot it a few times for trying to kill you.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:24pm

Wong: if Ted doesn't resurface in the next short while could you refer his connection IP and other data to the emergency services? CO isn't something to be messed with and he's in deeper trouble than he seems to think.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-02 10:26pm

Enlightenment wrote:Wong: if Ted doesn't resurface in the next short while could you refer his connection IP and other data to the emergency services? CO isn't something to be messed with and he's in deeper trouble than he seems to think.

I might have to. Ted, if you're reading this, get some fresh air and call somebody to work on your furnace.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:28pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Enlightenment wrote:Wong: if Ted doesn't resurface in the next short while could you refer his connection IP and other data to the emergency services? CO isn't something to be messed with and he's in deeper trouble than he seems to think.
I might have to. Ted, if you're reading this, get some fresh air and call somebody to work on your furnace.

He's been off the board since 22:10. It's now 22:27. Call 911.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-02-02 10:30pm

I have Ted's address looked up thanks to the joys of online phone listings. Ted, get the hell out of your house before you keel over, that means NOW.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:31pm

aerius wrote:I have Ted's address looked up thanks to the joys of online phone listings. Ted, get the hell out of your house before you keel over, that means NOW.

He's not on the board anymore. Give his address to Toronto Fire.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-02 10:33pm

aerius wrote:I have Ted's address looked up thanks to the joys of online phone listings. Ted, get the hell out of your house before you keel over, that means NOW.

Give him a phone call. He doesn't appear to be logged in, which means he probably logged himself out rather than simply dropping to the floor. That's good, but I hope he's out of there. If you know his home address, that'd be a helluva lot faster than trying to work with his ISP to backtrack his IP address (it's dynamically assigned from their pool). Maybe you should call the police and tell them your concerns, and they can send a squad car over just to make sure everything is OK.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:36pm

Darth Wong wrote:Give him a phone call. He doesn't appear to be logged in, which means he probably logged himself out rather than simply dropping to the floor.

How long does it take for the sessions to time out? He last posted at 22:10 but he was still showing up in the active users list somewhere between five and ten minutes after that.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-02-02 10:37pm

Enlightenment wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Give him a phone call. He doesn't appear to be logged in, which means he probably logged himself out rather than simply dropping to the floor.
How long does it take for the sessions to time out? He last posted at 22:10 but he was still showing up in the active users list somewhere between five and ten minutes after that.

Maybe he let his computer on and got out.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-02-02 10:38pm

Gave him a ring and no one answered, which means they either got out or they're all passed out or dead.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-02 10:39pm

aerius wrote:Gave him a ring and no one answered, which means they either got out or they're all passed out or dead.

Call the police.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-02-02 10:43pm

Called him again to make sure, turns out he's fine and that it was some kind of false alarm. We now return to regular programming

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-02-02 10:45pm

Are you all pessimistic enough?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-02 10:46pm

The pessimist is either correct or pleasantly surprised.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-02 10:49pm

aerius wrote:Called him again to make sure, turns out he's fine and that it was some kind of false alarm.

If he's in a 124ppm CO environment he's not fine. Unless he's got some way of testing his CO meter and coming to the conclusion that it's haywire the least he should be doing is shutting off the gas to his furnace, opening a few windows to clear the air, and calling the HVAC repair folks to get the furnace fixed.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-02-02 10:52pm

This brings up a rather intresting point, What use is a Monxided Detector if it does not give you a good easy to understand reading?

Sonnenburg · Post by **Sonnenburg** » 2003-02-02 11:16pm

Howedar wrote:Are you all pessimistic enough?

It's entirely possible someone in NASA said the same thing.

That was not a cheap attempt at a joke. Best to err on the side of caution when people's lives are at stake.... you can always laugh later if you were wrong.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-02 11:17pm

Wow, never knew so many cared.

Anyways, yeah, my CO detector is fubar.

The repair dude came in, his couldn't detect any CO.

However, ours detected upto 145ppm.

Really weird.

Anyways, we're gonna get a new detector, and most likely a new furnace as well. Previously it DID go bad, gave off alot of CO, we stayed at grandparents, the piping was all fixed. But, we're gonna go new now.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-02-02 11:34pm

Ted wrote:Wow, never knew so many cared.

Anyways, yeah, my CO detector is fubar.

The repair dude came in, his couldn't detect any CO.

However, ours detected upto 145ppm.

Really weird.

Anyways, we're gonna get a new detector, and most likely a new furnace as well. Previously it DID go bad, gave off alot of CO, we stayed at grandparents, the piping was all fixed. But, we're gonna go new now.

I'm glad that's all it was. Watch out for that CO, it's nasty shit...

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-02-02 11:39pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:I'm glad that's all it was. Watch out for that CO, it's nasty shit...

Aye, as I said, it had happend for real before, thats why we sorta took it pretty serious.

Although, it only has ever happend in Febuary.

Co-incidince?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-03 05:32am

Ted wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:I'm glad that's all it was. Watch out for that CO, it's nasty shit...
Aye, as I said, it had happend for real before, thats why we sorta took it pretty serious.

Although, it only has ever happend in Febuary.

Co-incidince?

The problem might develop only after a period of prolonged heavy use, such as that you find in winter.