Questions tagged [smoke-detectors]
Device for detecting smoke and/or fire.
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Basement smoke alarm location -- ceiling protrusions vs stairwell protection?
So, in order to meet current requirements for an upcoming inspection, we're upgrading our smoke alarms to a set of battery-operated, wirelessly interconnected alarms (it's the best we can do given the ...
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What is this device in my ceiling making out of battery chirps?
What is this device in my ceiling that started chirping like a smoke detector last evening?
There is a button on it that says "test / silence". Unfortunately, there are several layers of ...
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Are wired, interconnected smoke detectors using 14ga conductors considered an "Non-power-limited Fire Alarm System" in the language of the 2023 NEC?
Am I required to comply with the NEC rules regarding "fire alarm systems" for a residential smoke detector?
Rules such as a red, dedicated circuit breaker labeled "fire alarm system&...
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Power harness on interconnected smoke detector
I have two interconnected smoke detectors that are disconnected. The issue is they are 20feet ceilings and I can’t get to it because in the middle of the night I’m getting false alarms. Will place ...
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Ionizing smoke detectors as back-up to photoelectric
I am replacing all of my ionizing smoke detectors due to too-frequent false alarms in humid weather. Also, I am unable to silence any false alarms as I am unable to climb to the ceiling to silence ...
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How to test smoke detector wiring
I have 14 hardwired interconnected smoke detectors in my house. Assuming I have a hub and spoke topology, how can I determine which detectors are wired to which other detectors?
Ideally I would want ...
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Cheapest way to satisfy code requirement for 10 year sealed interconnected smoke alarms [closed]
I am going to have an electrical inspection done soon after some electrical work that I am doing. The local electrical inspector told me that state law (Illinois, nowhere near Chicago) requires smoke ...
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Why are my wired smoke detector backup alkaline batteries (i.e. 9.0 Vdc) measuring over 10.0 Vdc after being installed for a year?
I have six (6) wired smoke detectors i4618AC (w/9v battery backup), and also on one (1) wired smoke/CO detector KN-COSM-IBA (w/AA battery backup). The detectors are all approximately 5 years old and I'...
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Multiple 2 wire smokes that are wired as home runs
I have a vista panel and 5x System Sensor 2WTA-B 2-Wire. Each smoke has their own 2 wire cable that run back to the panel like a home run. The cable only has two wires and I planed to connect them to ...
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Should I hard-wire only three, of many, smoke-alarms or wirelessly interconnect all of them on batteries?
My local inspector has given me the option to install battery-operated smoke detectors, but he says they must be interconnected.
He would prefer that I run wires and put at least one hard-wired ...
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Smoke alarms wont stop going off at night
So I'm a maintenance technician for a property, the issue that I am having is that the Smoke alarms in one of our units sets off all the other smoke alarms in the unit, we started by replacing all 4 ...
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Beeping/chirping sound (one soft, one loud) each minute in ceiling just above wired smoke alarm that is not the smoke alarm itself
A few months ago, I started hearing a quiet mysterious beep around every 1 minute in our basement. We could not find it after an afternoon of standing in different spots and we were 99% sure it was ...
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Can it be the case that my 10-year old smoke alarm wiring has an interconnect cable?
Our house was completely re-wired and new wired smoke alarms installed in 2010. The smoke alarms were not interconnected. There are four wires: brown, gray, black, sleeveless.
Now I am installing an ...
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Why is my smoke alarm chirping even with fresh batteries?
One of our smoke alarms started doing a short chirp every couple of hours. I assumed it was due to a low battery, so I replaced it. Didn’t help still beeping every couple hours.
I then unplugged it ...
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False Smoke Alarm due to Interconnect/heat pump
In August, we had our gas furnace/electric ac replaced with a ducted heat pump (ECOER EODA18H-2436 with a matching air handler) in our condo built in 2009, and immediately started having false smoke ...
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CO detector beeping
My Co detector is beeping every 10 to 15 seconds. I changed the battery , drained the charge by pressing and holding reset for 5 seconds. After 6 to 8 hours again it starts beeping. House is newly ...
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Fire / smoke detectors with email notifications [closed]
Are there any fire / smoke detectors that can send an email notification when activated?
I don't want mobile phone notifications, only email.
It's not important if it meets any fire safety regulations ...
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Power coming out of breaker, no power to circuit
I have a circuit that powers all smoke alarms, two hall lights, two outlets and a ceiling fan. This was working fine then stopped with no explication. I checked the breaker box and there is 120 out of ...
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Multiple 4-wire smoke/CO zone questions (Vista 128BPT)
I'm moving in to a house with a Vista 128BPT burglar alarm and I'd really like to add smoke/heat and CO detectors to the system.
However, I also really want the smokes/heat detectors to be on ...
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Installing a Wired 120 Volt Smoke / CO Detector in Non-Finished Basement to Code
My fiancée and I will be closing on a house soon. One thing that came up during the inspection was that the (non-finished) basement doesn't have a wired smoke + CO detector, which is required by our ...
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Smoke detector triggers without any fire, smoke and carbon monoxide
Does anyone know why a bunch of networked #smokeDetectors would go off when there’s no #smoke, fire, or #carbonMonoxide?
My house is pretty humid. Could that be a factor?
I’ve tried vacuuming the ...
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Help with smoke detectors?
I have 2 of these smoke detectors in my house. They don’t have any information on them to indicate the brand or model. I did do a reverse image search on Google which came up with Sensaphone IMS-4862, ...
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Why is the interconnect wire with my smoke detector getting DC volts?
My smoke alarms went off yesterday. Verified there was no fire and tried to reset the units with no luck, they would keep alarming. I ended up disconnected them from the hardwire and they would stop ...
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Lacking explanation in the manual for my new Kidde KN-COPE-IC smoke and co alarm
I have put up two of the Kidde KN-COPE-IC alarms and it comes with an enormous manual but doesn't explain the multi-function button on this alarm. There's a drawing of the large button under the alarm ...
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Do I really need Carbon monoxide detector
My house has a gas hob other than that I don't have any other appliances which burns off fossil fuel.
I have other heavy appliances like washing machine ,Electric OTG Microwave oven, Fridge,Toaster ,...
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How do you properly shield a 10-year lithium battery smoke detector from an old wired system?
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I would like to hang smoke detectors with 10-year lithium batteries over the junction boxes that were once used for a wired system. The wires in the boxes no longer carry any current. ...
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Smoke Detector Turns on Randomly: After removing Popcorn ceiling and repainting
I removed the popcorn ceiling and repainted the ceilings at my place. The drywall contractors forgot to cover the smoke detector. Obviously there was popcorn ceiling leftover, dust, slight moisture. ...
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Can two branch circuits share one lighting box?
All my smoke detectors are on one circuit, but one needs to be moved about 4 feet from where it is. At its present location is where I would like to have a light fixture which will be on a different ...
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Are there smoke alarms that you can connect 12v-24v strobe to for remote notification? [closed]
Are there smoke alarms that you can connect 12v-24v strobe to for remote notification ?
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Installing Nest Smoke Alarm against capped wires
We moved in to a new home and the prior homeowner capped the old smoke alarm wires and replaced the old wired alarm with a battery unit that wasn’t wired up at all.
The nest smoke alarm has a 120V ...
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I found this white electronic device on my ceiling. What is it?
I found this on my ceiling and I was wondering what it is.
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What if anything does blue tape mean on a wire for a smoke alarm circuit?
Is there a common meaning amongst electricians for blue electrical tape on a circuit that powers the smoke alarms in a house?
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Removing fire detection panel
We recently moved into a house which used to be tenanted to five adults, and because of safety regs had to have very comprehensive fire safety.
There is a fire panel, and there are fire alarm push ...
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Will essential oil diffuser trigger the smoke detector? [closed]
I saw many posts online saying that the essential oil diffuser will not set up the smoke detector. However, there were actually some posts online saying that its diffuser sets off the smoke detector. ...
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FirstAlert smoke detector low battery warning continues after opening battery drawer and replacing batteries
Note: I'm creating and immediately answering my own question because I wasn't able to find documentation of this solution online.
My condo is equipped with a FirstAlert 7010BSL smoke detector (...
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Smoke alarm positioning - dead air?
For aesthetics, I'd ideally like to place the smoke alarm in this room in the middle of this 'square' area - see dot in attached picture.
It's more than 300mm from any ceiling/wall corner, and thus ...
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Can interconnected smoke detectors be wired as spokes from an attic junction box?
Suppose 3 interconnected smoke detectors on first floor. Standard wiring would run 14/2 to first, then 14/3 (with red wire for interconnecting) to second, then 14/3 to third. My question is whether ...
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Does my smoke alarm battery need replacing?
I live in a flat in the UK. The flat is about 6 years old, and I moved in 4 years ago.
The flat has a built in smoke-detector, and over the past few days, it has started 'going off' for about 10 ...
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How did a circuit that was shut off at the breaker almost kill me?
I just had a near-disaster while trying to install new smoke detectors. My house has AC hardwire connections for the smoke detectors. I wasn't sure which circuit the smoke detector AC connection was ...
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FIVE hardwired smoke/CO2 detectors, 4 on one floor in close proximity, PLUS ADT smoke/CO2 detector separately
Moved into a "new to us" home a few months ago. Made a small renovation (halved the kitchen and created a spare room). Four usable rooms total and a furnace/hot water heater utility room ...
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Photoelectric smoke detector, AC refrigerant, and a false alarm
I purchased a house about 7 months ago and found it had interconnected AC smoke/CO detectors that were all unplugged. Not knowing the age of them I replaced them all using photoelectric smoke/CO ...
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Smoke/CO Detector Location Within A Bedroom
This question concerns smoke/CO detector placement within a bedroom (the code is pretty clear regarding outside-of-bathroom & distance-from-kitchen-appliances).
Given a 12x10ft bedroom, with the ...
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Are smoke/CO detectors required to be interconnected with wire?
I am planning on hardwiring 6 combination smoke/CO detectors on various levels of the house (2nd flr, 1st flr, basement) using 12/2 wire branching off from permitted sources (standalone 20a outlets).
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A spark while installing a smoke alarm
Short story: the black wire sparked when installing a hardwired smoke detector as I had left the power on. After properly turning off the power, I completed the installation and now everything works ...
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What is this electrical fixture above a natural gas fired forced air furnace?
While visiting my mother-in-law, we wanted to get the smoke detector situation in her house up to par (this is in Massachusetts, we're from Europe, though). She has a natural gas fired forced air ...
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Will most battery-powered smoke detectors attach to other back plates?
Need to replace a battery powered detector. Do most of them have the same sort of back plate or will I generally have to attach a new back plate? Do they usually come with a back plate?
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Can I wire a smoke detector so that it disables my furnace if smoke is present?
I have a standard Johnson Controls Unitary Products TM9V*MP board in my furnace wired to a nest thermostat. Can I wire my duct smoke detector so that it splices the R wire going from my furnace to my ...
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What smoke detector fits this bracket
There is an empty bracket for a smoke detector in the hallway. See picture. What brand/model of detector uses that kind of bracket?
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Hard-wired smoke detector chirps when light switch flipped
I have a hard wired smoke detector that is connected to the same circuit breaker as the two hallway lights. The two switches at the end of the hallway do not turn the smoke detector on and off, ...
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Why is a smoke alarm chirping at specific times of the day?
I have a smoke alarm (Kiddie) that is beeping regularly (every 30 seconds or so), what I would typically associate with a low battery. The strange thing is that the beeping is only happening between 5 ...
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