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11. Cleaning Your Alarm
YOUR ALARM SHOULD BE CLEANED AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR
To clean your alarm, remove it from the mounting bracket as outlined
in Section 10 Battery Replacement or Section 6,
Figure 4A
. You can
clean the interior of your alarm (sensing chamber) by using compressed
air or a vacuum cleaner hose and blowing or vacuuming through the
openings around the temperature sensor located on the top of the
alarm. The outside of the alarm can be wiped with a damp cloth.
After cleaning, reinstall your alarm and test your alarm by using the test
button. If cleaning does not restore the alarm to normal operation the
alarm should be replaced.
After cleaning, reinstall your alarm. Test your alarm by using the
test button and check that the green LED is on.
12. Limitations Of Heat Alarms
WARNING! Heat alarms are not designed to protect life
safety against fire and smoke. In most fires, hazardous
levels of toxic gases, smoke and heat can build up before
a heat alarm will operate. In cases where life safety is an
issue, heat alarms should only be used to provide an added
source of information and as a supplement to the smoke
alarm installation. Heat alarms do not always detect fires,
the fire may be a slow smoldering (smoke producing) low
heat producing type, the fire may be in a different room than
the alarm, or the heat from the fire may bypass the alarm.
This alarm will not detect smoke, gases or flames.
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Subject to applicable legal requirements in each State and Territory,
Garland OnGard
recommends that both ionisation and photoelectric
smoke alarms be installed to help insure maximum detection of the
various types of fires that can occur within the home. Ionisation
sensing alarms may detect invisible fire particles (associated with
fast flaming fires) sooner than photoelectric alarms. Photoelectric
sensing alarms may detect visible fire particles (associated with
slow smouldering fires) sooner than ionisation alarms.
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Heat alarms cannot provide an alarm if heat does not reach the
alarm. Therefore, heat alarms may not sense fires starting in
chimneys, walls, on roofs, on the other side of a closed door or
on a different floor. If the alarm is located outside the bedroom or
on a different floor, it may not wake up a sound sleeper. The use