Customer Reviews

Kidde 900-0107 Plug-In Carbon Monoxide Alarm

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

No problems, great price, loud alarm, requires no batteries, alarms when loses power, 5 year replacement warranty.

I have owned this unit for about 6 years. I thought my family was safe. Well our furnace had a CO leak. Level of CO detected up to 70 ppm. The detector never went off. It isn't sensitive enough. It will detect levels at 400 ppm in 4 to 15 minutes (it says this on the back). The furnace repairman said to get a detector that could detect levels of 70 to 100 ppm at the minimum. I am buying a new detector.

This is an excellent product as there is no maintanence required. Just plug it in and you are safe! Further, You are not troubled with batteries since none are required. Wish my smoke alarm was this easy!

This alarm has a "tamper resist" feature which makes the alarm sound if the unit is "unplugged" (fortunately, this can be deactivated, though it's on by default). However, this feature is very poorly implemented. There is a button that sticks out on the back of the alarm which is pushed in when the unit is plugged in. However, if the unit is slightly bumped or jostled, this alarm will sound at full blast even if the unit is never actually unplugged! Earlier today, I was plugging something else in nearby when I grazed the alarm, causing it to go off. My head was only a foot or so from the alarm, and I fear it may have damaged my hearing!

There are several obvious ways to fix this problem. First, they could have set the unit to produce a significantly lower-volume (10-20 dB) sound when the unit is "unplugged." Second, they could have set it to electronically detect that it's not receiving power from the outlet, instead of using the cheap, poorly-functioning button on the back.

Had this for about a year until this morning, when the alarm went off. I have a second unit from another manufacture that I placed in the same area as the Kidde and it didn't go off. Called Kidde support, and was on hold, their website had a section on what my alarm was and it said exit the house and call the fire department. I did (to be safe, I have a family), and they tested the house and found nothing. Not buying a Kidde again. If anything, only get a detector that has a digital read-out.

So if you want a great surprise someday and think that your house has carbon monoxide, font get this!

I got a great deal on the carbon monoxide alarms and am so far pleased (luckily they havn't had to actually work yet and i'm hoping they won't ever have to) They are good for a little peace of mind!

Woke up at 3:30 in the morning to this alarm going off. I had forgotten I had put this in our fireplace room when we moved in. There was no smoke in the house, no sign of fire, smoke alarm in the next room was not going off. I thought it must be a false alarm and went to unplug it to move to a different outlet. This is when the tamper switch worked as designed. It started going crazy because i unplugged it. Now I was awake. Brilliant design. I realized I had a headache and started to air out the room. 10 minutes later I'm back in bed ready to go back to sleep. My wife insisted that I investigate further before going back to sleep. It was at this point that I checked the attic and found a raging fire. My wife grabbed the kids and called 911 while I grabbed the fire extinguisher and then the garden hose to spray down the side of our house while we waited for the fire co. to get there.

Without this alarm I fear we would have simply stayed asleep too long to make it out of the house in time. Now, as part of the rebuild we will have all hardwired interconnected alarms, but I will have a couple of these throughout the house as well. They're $35 at home depot and maybe less on amazon, and well worth it.

-Thankful and completely satisfied user.

I have this in my laundry room where the hot water tank and furnace are. One day I had my snowblower running warming up in the garage with the garage door open and the door going into the house was open a little, the snowblower was at the garage door and that set off the carbon monoxide alarm. So for me this worked great.

I bought these for two old homes. I have to take them all back. The major flaw in the design is that the button in the back must be push ALL THE WAY in when the unit is plugged in or the no power warning alarm will go off CONSTANTLY until it is plugged back in. If you have an old house that has older outlets that do not hold the plug in very TIGHTLY these will not work and the alarm will go off constantly thinking the unit is unplugged. You also have to make sure that the area behind and around the plug is rigid and flat. The unit is quite large. In order to deactivate the alarm you have to tamper with it and mess with the battery (not easy in the design). If you hit it or move it the alarm goes off. Just annoying.

This is the LOUDEST alarm I have ever heard. It has to be damaging to hearing. I wonder what happens if you are not at home and the power goes out. Does the alarm sound the entire time until the power comes back on? I would hate to leave my pets home with an alarm like that going off around them. I decided it was just easier to buy a long life battery operated detector which can last up to ten years. Bad design and a stressful experience.

This is no frills, but I love having a couple of these in place to make sure I am keeping my family safe.