Kidde SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM installation instructions Smoke Alarm Features

Smoke Alarm Features

Smoke Alarm

The smoke alarm monitors the air for products of combustion that are produced when some-thing is burning or smouldering. When smoke particles in the smoke sensor reach a specified concentration, the alarm/voice message warning system will sound, and be accompanied by the flashing red LED light. The smoke alarm takes precedence when both smoke and carbon monoxide are present.

This unit has a smoke sensor that uses the ionisation technology. Life safety from fire in residential occupancies is based primarily on early notification to occupants of the need to escape, followed by the appropriate egress actions by those occupants. Fire warning systems for dwelling units are capable of protecting about half of the occupants in potentially fatal fires. Victims are often intimate with the fire, too old or young, or physically or mentally impaired such that they cannot escape even when warned early enough that escape should be possible. For these people, other strategies such as protection-in- place or assisted escape or rescue are necessary.

•Smoke alarms are devices that can provide early warning of possible fires at reasonable cost, however, alarms have sensing limitations. Ionization type alarms offer a broad range of fire sensing capabilities but are better at detecting fast flaming fires than slow smoldering fires. Photoelectric alarms sense smoldering fires better than flaming fires. Home fires develop in different ways and are often unpredictable. Neither type of alarm (photoelectric or ionization) is always best, and a given alarm may not always provide warning of a fire.

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