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Wireless Smoke Detector
Owner‘s Manual
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Put the detector as close to the ceiling center as possible.
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Put detectors outside of every bedroom area and on every
level of your home.
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Test all detectors weekly, one at a time, by holding in each
test switch button on the cover for about 20 seconds until the
alarm sounds.
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If the LED on your detector flashes about 4 times per minute,
it is receiving power from the power supply.
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If your alarm beeps once a minute, it needs a new battery.
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Smoke detectors are designed to provide early warning of
developing fires at a reasonable cost. They monitor the air and
can sense smoke and can provide precious minutes for you and
your family to escape before a fire spreads.
CAUTION: Early warning fire detection is best achieved by the
installation of fire detection equipment in all rooms and areas of
the household as follows: A smoke detector installed in each
separate sleeping area (in the vicinity, but outside the
bedroom), and heat or smoke detectors in the living rooms,
dining rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, hallways, attics, furnace
rooms, closets, utility and storage rooms, basements and
attached garages.
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Smoke detectors will not work without power. Battery-operated
detectors will not work without batteries, with dead batteries, or if
the batteries are not put in properly. AC-powered detectors will
not work if their AC power supply is cut off by an electrical fire, an
open fuse or circuit breaker, or for any other reason. If you are
concerned about the reliability of either batteries or your AC
power supply for any of the above reasons, you should install
both battery and AC powered detectors for maximum safety.
Smoke detectors may not sense fires that start where smoke
cannot reach the detectors such as in chimneys, in walls, on
roofs, or on the other side of closed doors. If bedroom doors are
usually closed at night, detectors should be placed in each
bedroom as well as in the common hallway between them.
Smoke detectors also may not sense a fire on another level of the
residence or building. For example, a second-floor detector may
not sense a first-floor or basement fire. Therefore, detectors
should be placed on every level of a residence or building.
The horn in your detector meets or exceeds current audibility
requirements of Underwriters Laboratories. However, if the
detector is located outside a bedroom, it may not wake up a
sound sleeper, especially if the bedroom doors are closed or only
partly open. If the detector is located on a different level of the
residence than the bedrooms, it is even less likely to wake up
people sleeping in the bedrooms. In such cases, the National Fire
Protection Association recommends that the detectors be
interconnected so that all detectors sound an alarm when any
one detector senses smoke.
All types of smoke detector sensors have limitations. No type of
smoke detector can sense every kind of fire every time. In
general, detectors may not always warn you about fires caused
by carelessness and safety hazards like smoking in bed, violent
explosions, escaping gas, improper storage of flammable
materials, overloaded electrical circuits, children playing with
matches, or arson.
Installing smoke detectors may make you eligible for lower
insurance rates, but smoke detectors are not a substitute for
insurance. Homeowners and renters should continue to insure
their lives and property.
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This smoke detector should be installed in accordance with the
National Fire Protection Association, Standard 74 (National Fire
Protection Association, Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02269).
This standard means that for complete coverage, smoke
detectors should be installed in all rooms, halls, storage areas,
basements, and attics of a building. The minimum recommen-
dation is one detector on each level of a building and one in every
sleeping area. See how this recommendation applies in the
figures below.
A. Put a smoke detector in the hallway outside of every separate
bedroom area (Fig. 1). Two detectors are required in homes
with two bedroom areas (Fig. 2).
B. Put a smoke detector on every level of a multi-level residence
(Fig. 3).
Figure 1: Recommended Smoke Detector for Single-Floor
Residence with Only One Sleeping Area.
Figure 2:
Recommended Smoke Detector Protection for
Single-Floor Residence
with More than One Sleeping Area.
C. Put a smoke detector inside bedrooms where smokers sleep.
D. Put a smoke detector inside every bedroom where electrical
appliances (such as portable heaters or humidifiers) are
operated while someone sleeps.
