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Over the past 48 hours I have had some interesting experiences, and I'd like to offer a timeline progression and ask for some opinion.
Lights are air cooled @ 400cfm. Room previously vented thru the lights to outside. There is an intake from the outside that is temperature controlled. The intake is pretty low CFM, probably 50-70cfm.
I was having temp issues because I was venting my room thru the lights and blowing the CO2 out which made the burner run too much. At 3:00pm I re-ventelated the intake from the light cooling to be a closed loop. Within 20 minutes the temp had dropped from 89-90 to 85ish. The outside intake is running constantly still, but there is now effectively no room exhaust.
At 7:00 a friend had come to visit and we went into the room. Temps were stable @ 85, humidity had climbed, co2 ppm had mostly stabilized. At this point we had not smoked or had anything to drink. After about 10-15min in the room I realized that I had become dizzy. I asked my friend and he verified. Also we both agreed that our heart felt 'funny'. We immediately left the room. My first guess was CO. I tried to relocate my CO detector from just outside the room to inside the room while maintaining voice communication with friend. After less than a minute I felt more dizzy and somewhat drunk. Again I left the room (with the detector), plugged the detector in on the main floor and now left the house. Waited outside to hear if detector would alert. There was no alert. I now took several deep breaths of outside air and went to disconnect the gen-1. After this point we walked around the block to get fresh air, came back, opened all windows on house and door on room and left. Feelings of lightheadedness continued for at least 2 more hours.
I stayed at the friend's house and came back 14 hours later. Driving I felt drunk still (yet to smoke or have a drink). I came back with 3 more CO detectors of all different brands and models. None ever sounded anyplace in house. The documentation for the gen-1 said 'if you use this device in a closed area you may wish to consider a co detector'. I had the detector just outside the room. The detector never sounded.
At the time of the 'symptoms':
The temp on the room was 85, the co2 PPM was controlled to overshoot and was maxing out at 1700. There was a noticible smell of propane. The humidity was 40%.
What did I experience? I have heard of other people using burners in 'sealed rooms' and my room wasn't even really sealed. It just did not have an active exhaust. I had outside air being blown into the room constantly. I *felt* like my life was at risk but after I first left the room I looked up CO effects and symptoms so it's possible that my mind was influencing what I was thinking. Was the timeline I cited possible to develop a toxic CO buildup? No alarms ever sounded. Any help here is *very very greatly* appreciated.
Lights are air cooled @ 400cfm. Room previously vented thru the lights to outside. There is an intake from the outside that is temperature controlled. The intake is pretty low CFM, probably 50-70cfm.
I was having temp issues because I was venting my room thru the lights and blowing the CO2 out which made the burner run too much. At 3:00pm I re-ventelated the intake from the light cooling to be a closed loop. Within 20 minutes the temp had dropped from 89-90 to 85ish. The outside intake is running constantly still, but there is now effectively no room exhaust.
At 7:00 a friend had come to visit and we went into the room. Temps were stable @ 85, humidity had climbed, co2 ppm had mostly stabilized. At this point we had not smoked or had anything to drink. After about 10-15min in the room I realized that I had become dizzy. I asked my friend and he verified. Also we both agreed that our heart felt 'funny'. We immediately left the room. My first guess was CO. I tried to relocate my CO detector from just outside the room to inside the room while maintaining voice communication with friend. After less than a minute I felt more dizzy and somewhat drunk. Again I left the room (with the detector), plugged the detector in on the main floor and now left the house. Waited outside to hear if detector would alert. There was no alert. I now took several deep breaths of outside air and went to disconnect the gen-1. After this point we walked around the block to get fresh air, came back, opened all windows on house and door on room and left. Feelings of lightheadedness continued for at least 2 more hours.
I stayed at the friend's house and came back 14 hours later. Driving I felt drunk still (yet to smoke or have a drink). I came back with 3 more CO detectors of all different brands and models. None ever sounded anyplace in house. The documentation for the gen-1 said 'if you use this device in a closed area you may wish to consider a co detector'. I had the detector just outside the room. The detector never sounded.
At the time of the 'symptoms':
The temp on the room was 85, the co2 PPM was controlled to overshoot and was maxing out at 1700. There was a noticible smell of propane. The humidity was 40%.
What did I experience? I have heard of other people using burners in 'sealed rooms' and my room wasn't even really sealed. It just did not have an active exhaust. I had outside air being blown into the room constantly. I *felt* like my life was at risk but after I first left the room I looked up CO effects and symptoms so it's possible that my mind was influencing what I was thinking. Was the timeline I cited possible to develop a toxic CO buildup? No alarms ever sounded. Any help here is *very very greatly* appreciated.
