Why car parks should not run exhaust fans 24 hours a dayVentilation · 4 min read
In basement car parks, carbon monoxide is the real hazard, and fans that run all day are the real cost. A PLC-based system reads CO sensors zone by zone and runs fans only as hard as the air quality needs.
Four stages cover the full range: standby with a timed purge, low speed, high speed, and a full alarm state. Start / stop dead-bands and run-on timers stop fans from hunting, and lead / lag rotation shares running hours between fans.
A fire-alarm contact can switch the system to smoke-extraction mode, and a sensor fault falls back to timed ventilation, so safety does not depend on a single device.