FREDERICK
HALPERN
Professional
Corporation
Barrister
& Solicitor
18
Basaltic Road
Vaughan,
Ontario
L4K
1G6
Tel:(905)660-9066
Ext 224 Fax:(905)660-9261
WITHOUT
PREJUDICE
June
3, 2010
CO
Experts
19299
Katrina Lane
Eldridge,
MO 65463-9102 U.S.A.
Dear
Mr. Kerr
RE:
Patrick Plastics Inc.
Pro-Tech/ S-Tech CO Alarms
____________________________
Thank you for your letter of May 16, 2010. I would first like to point out
that Mr. Don Smith is not a party to our complaint against CO Experts and your
associates. The Pro-Tech and S-Tech brands are trademarks of Patrick
Plastics Inc., not Don Smith or the company that he works for. Should you
have any complaints against Mr Smith kindly address them to him directly.
Your letter has ignored the UL 2034 specification which reads "A carbon
monoxide alarm shall operate (alarm) at or below the test points" (i.e. 70
+/-5 ppm, 60-240 minutes).
To
confirm, the UL 2034 standard specifies that Listed CO alarms must alarm at or
below 70 ppm, not at or above, and
does permit Listed CO alarms to activate an alarm signal at 34 ppm in 60
minutes, 34 ppm
being outside the 30 day false alarm limitation). As a voting member of
the UL 2034 committee you should be aware of these specifications.
Patrick Plastics Inc., and its associates expect you and your associates to
immediately cease misrepresenting the UL 2034 standard as it pertains to Patrick
Plastics Inc. and all its and/or Pro-Tech CO Alarms cannot alarm below 70ppm.
With respect to Bob Dwyer and Rudy Leatherman, if they are involved with
Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL0, and have tested the S-Tech or
Pro-Tech CO Alarms according to UL 2034 criteria, my client would appreciate
receiving a copy of their test reports.
Yours
very truly,
FREDERICK
HALPERN
FH/ml
[ The following are excerpts from long detailed responses I
sent to PPI / PRO-TECH attorney. ]
Dear
Fred:
You
can try to separate your your actions in this matter away from Don Smith
as much as you want to; however, all of the people at the booths near mine at
the ACI Exhibit in Kansas City, MO, a little over a year ago; as well as some of
the other attendees that happened to be in the immediate area remember well the
Yelling & Raving that Don Smith was doing at my booth, screaming that I was
“NOT ALLOWED” to TEST or Compare UL-Listed C O alarms to my Monitor and that
“HE WOULD SEE TO IT THAT I WAS CUT OFF at PPI, so that they would NOT MAKE
products for me in the future”. SURE ENOUGH, in less than a month I received a
NOTICE from Linda Young, General Manager, of PPI, advising me that I did not
sell enough volume for PPI to continue to compete with PRO-Tech / S-Tech
products.
To
my knowledge, NO ONE from PPI has attended any of the Conferences in years,
EXCEPT Don Smith, so any & all rumors or comments about what was, or was not
being said by ANYONE at these Events, had to come from Don Smith.
Don
Smith’s #1 LIE, is that an Audible alarm, is PERMITTED by an UL-2034
Listed C O alarm after a C O exposure of 34ppm for 60 minutes.
This
is GROSSLY UNTRUE and, ….. is simply another one of Don
Smith’s MANY “PIPE DREAMS”.
The
TRUTH is clearly stated in the UL-2034 Standard.
39.1.2
A carbon monoxide alarm shall not operate (alarm signal) below the test points
specified in Part B of Table 39.1,
B.
False alarm – carbon monoxide concentration resistance specifications
Concentration, ppm EXPOSURE TIME,
(no
alarm]
70
±5 60 minutes
30
±3 30 days
It
is VERY OBVIOUS that ONCE AGAIN, MR. Don SMITH is NOT TELLING THE TRUTH.
Another
LIE, is a C O alarm activation test at 34 to 69 PPM. I have NEVER HEARD a single
person, in all of the years since the FIRST Edition of UL-2034 was published on
April 30, 1992, EVER, not even ONC, mention a C O “Test Level” of 34 to
69ppm EXCEPT Don Smith.
All
of the C O – Experts that I have ever meet would laugh at the IDEA that any
level of alarm activation based on an acceptable “Span / Tolerance of 35 PPM,
as 34 to 69 would involve, would PROVE NOTHING concerning product accuracy.
Activation tolerances permitted in UL-2034 are plus or minus 3 PPM, or 5 PPM,
….. NOT a ridiculous 35 PPM.
Most
certainly, George Kerr, Bob Dwyer or Rudy Leatherman would never make such a
truly stupid statement as to call such an extreme tolerance / wide span over 30
days, a “TEST”.
Both
Bob Dwyer, COSA and Rudy Leatherman, C O Trainer, have ACTUALLY TESTED hundreds
of UL-2034 C O alarms with Certified C O Test Gas, and as did the U.S.,CPSC and
yours truly. We
all found the performance of some of these C O alarms to be an utter DISGRACE
for a “So Called” Life-Safety product.
My suggestion to everyone is to believe ONLY what is printed in the products Owner’s Manual.