Kidde 820-1356 manual Locations To Avoid, Installation Instructions, Wiring Requirements

1.Recommended Locations for Smoke Alarms

•Put smoke alarms at both ends of a bedroom hallway or large room if the hallway or room is more than 30 ft (9.1 m) long.

•Install Smoke Alarms on sloped, peaked or cathedral ceilings at or within 3ft (0.9m) of the highest point (measured horizontally). NFPA 72 states: “Smoke alarms in rooms with ceiling slopes greater than 1 ft in 8 ft (.3m in 2.4 m) horizontally shall be locat- ed on the high side of the room.” NFPA 72 states: “A row of detectors shall be spaced and located within 3 ft (0.9m) of the peak of the ceiling measured horizontally” (see figure 2).

2.Locations To Avoid

•In the garage. Products of combustion are present when you start your automobile.

•Less than 4” (10cm) from the peak of an “A” frame type ceiling.

•In an area where the temperature may fall below 40ºF or rise above 100ºF, such as garages and unfinished attics; this should also include electrical boxes exposed to these environments.

•In dusty areas. Dust particles may cause nuisance alarm or failure to alarm.

•In very humid areas. Moisture or steam can cause nuisance alarms.

•In insect-infested areas.

•Smoke alarms should not be installed within 3 ft (.9m) of the following: the door to a kitchen, the door to a bathroom containing a tub or shower, forced air supply ducts used for heating or cooling, ceiling or whole house ventilating fans, or other high air flow areas.

•Kitchens. Normal cooking may cause nuisance alarms. If a kitchen alarm is desired, it should have an alarm silence feature or be a photo- electric type.

•Near fluorescent lights. Electronic “noise” may cause nuisance alarms.

•Smoke alarms are not to be used with detector guards unless the combination (alarm and guard) has been evaluated and found suitable for that purpose.

3. Installation Instructions

WIRING REQUIREMENTS

•This smoke alarm should be installed in a U.L. listed or recognized junction box. The mounting bracket is equipped to accommodate a 3.5 inch hole spacing on a round electrical box and a double-gang rectangular electrical enclosure. All connections should be made by a qualified electrician and all wiring used shall be in accordance with articles 210 and 300.3(B) of the U.S. National Electrical Code ANSI/NFPA 70, NFPA 72 and/or any other codes having jurisdiction in your area. This unit consumes four cubic inches of interior space of the junction box volume. This figure should be used when calculating junction box volume.

•The multiple station interconnect wiring to the alarms must be run in the same raceway or cable as the AC power wiring. In addition, the resistance of the interconnect wiring shall be a maximum of 10 ohms.

•The appropriate power source is 120 Volt AC Single Phase supplied from a non-switchable circuit which is not protected by a ground fault interrupter.

•WARNING: This alarm cannot be operated from power derived from a square wave, modified square wave or modified sine wave inverters. These types of inverters are sometimes used to supply power to the structure in off grid installations, such as solar or wind derived power sources. These power sources produce high peak voltages that will damage the alarm.

Wiring Instructions for Quick Connect Harness

CAUTION! Turn off the main power circuit before wiring the alarm

•When alarms are interconnected, all interconnected units must be powered from a single circuit.

•A maximum of 18 Kidde devices may be interconnected in a multiple station arrangement. The interconnect system should not exceed the NFPA interconnect limit of 12 smoke alarms or 18 alarms {12 smoke and 6 other (heat, carbon monoxide, or similar alarms)}.

•When mixing models which have battery backup (i12040, i12060, i12080, 1275, 1276, 1285, 1296, PE120, PI2000, KN-COSM-IB, KN- SMFM-I, RF-SM-ACDC, HD135F, KN-COB-IC, KN-COP-IC) with models without battery backup, (i1220, 1235, KN-COSM-I, 120X, SM120X,CO120X, SL177i) be advised that the models without battery backup will not respond during an AC power failure.