Kidde WFPCO User manual

0843-CPR-0268
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EN14604:2005
10-year Smoke/CO Combinaon Alarm User Guide
Sealed-in baery that lasts the life of the alarm
WFPCO
EN50291-1:2010
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Contents
1. Introducon
2. Smoke Alarm Best Pracse
3. Important Smoke Alarm Informaon
4. Carbon Monoxide Alarm Best Pracse
5. What to do if your Carbon Monoxide Alarm Sounds
6. What is Carbon Monoxide?
7. Important Carbon Monoxide Safety Informaon
8. Recommended locaons for this alarm
9. Where not to install this alarm
10. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
11. Acvang the alarm
12. Key features of your alarm
13. Operang your Alarm
14. Troubleshoong Table
15. Product Specificaon
16. Deacvaon of the alarm
17. Maintenance of your alarm
18. Service and Warranty
19. Useful Contacts
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1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing the Kidde Combinaon Photoelectric Smoke and Carbon Monoxide
alarm with a 10-year sealed-in baery.
Please take a few minutes to thoroughly read this user guide which should be saved for future
reference. Teach children how to respond to the alarms, and ensure that they don’t ever play
with this unit.
IMPORTANT: Addional markings on back of the unit.
Your alarm was designed to detect both smoke and carbon monoxide from any source of
combuson in a residenal environment. It is not tested for use in a caravan or boat.
This apparatus is NOT a substute for maintenance of fuel burning appliances and venng
/exhaust systems.
If you have any quesons about the operaon or installaon of your alarm, please call our
Freephone Consumer Hotline on 0800 917 0722- between 9am - 5pm Mon - Fri.
This apparatus is to be installed by a competent person.
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2. SMOKE ALARM BEST PRACTISE
A smoke alarm paern is 3 long beeps, repeated every 1.5 seconds.
At all mes and before installing your smoke alarm you must;
• Have an escape plan with alternate exits
• Train your family in this escape plan and pracse it regularly
• Ensure your family know what the alarm sounds like
If the alarm sounds, check for fires first of all, and if one is discovered then;
• DO Alert small children
• DO Exit the home according to your escape plan
• DO Crawl if the smoke is dense, using a damp cloth to breathe through
• DO Call the fire brigade from a neighbour’s home
• DO Ensure that everyone is awake, and assistance is given to those who require it
• DON’T stop to dress or retrieve valuables
• DON’T open doors that are warm, or through which smoke is seeping
NOTE – Situaons where a smoke alarm might not be effecve;
• Smoking in bed
• Leaving children unaended
• Cleaning with flammable liquids resulng in explosive vapour.
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3. IMPORTANT SMOKE ALARM INFORMATION
• Before temporarily silencing the alarm with the Hush buon, idenfy the source of the smoke.
• Smoke alarms need to be tested regularly
• Smoke alarms cannot provide an alarm if smoke cannot reach them
• Fires in chimneys, walls, roofs, different levels or behind closed doors might not be detected
• For the physically or mentally impaired, or very young, escape may be di cult and so
alternave escape strategies should be adopted
• The smoke alarm may not wake heavy sleepers or those impaired by the use of drugs or
alcohol. In this case an alarm should be fied in each sleeping area
• Smoke alarms can save lives, but they are not an alternave for an adequate insurance policy
to protect lives and property
Leading authories recommend that both ionisaon and photoelectric smoke alarms be installed to
help insure maximum detecon of the various types of fires that can occur within the home.
Ionisaon sensing alarms may detect invisible fire parcles (associated with fast flaming fires)
sooner than photoelectric alarms. Photoelectric sensing alarms may detect visible fire parcles
(associated with slow smoldering fires) sooner than ionisaon alarms.
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A CO alarm paern is 4 quick beeps, repeated every 5 seconds.
WARNING: Carbon monoxide alarm acvaon indicates the presence of CO at high
concentraons which can kill you. NOTE: If you recognise any of the symptoms on
page 8 consult your Doctor immediately.
NOTE: Young children, elderly and pets are more suscepble to the dangers of CO.
NOTE: This alarm is designed to detect CO gas. It is not designed to detect other gases
such as natural gas.
NOTE: This alarm is intended for use in ordinary family homes. It is not designed to
measure compliance with occupaonal safety and the HSE.
NOTE: Individuals with certain specific medical condions may need an alarm that
operates below 30ppm. If this applies consult your Doctor.
IMPORTANT: Ensure that all family members are familiar with the symptoms of CO
poisoning and how your alarm works.
4. CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) ALARM BEST PRACTISE
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5. WHAT TO DO IF YOUR CO ALARM SOUNDS
Carbon Monoxide Alarm Procedure
WARNING! When this alarm sounds it indicates the presence of CO which can kill you. Based on
recommendaons from EN 50292, follow these steps if alarm sounds (4 loud audible pulses followed
by a pausefor 5 seconds):
1) Keep calm and open all doors and windows. Turn off all fuel-burning appliances if possible.
Note: it is possible that outdoor condions could influence domesc CO alarms (bad traffic
polluon in cold weather, for example). In these circumstances, the level of indoor CO might
actually increase when doors and windows are opened.
2) If the alarm connues to sound, even a er being reset (where appropriate), then evacuate the
premises, alerng other occupants to the risk. Leave doors and windows open. Do not re-enter
the premises.
3) Get medical help for anyone suffering the effects of CO poisoning, and advise that CO inhalaon
is suspected.
4) Call Gas Emergency Services: 0800 111 999, or your local Gas Safe Registered Engineer:
Engineer.
Never restart the source of a CO problem unl it has been corrected. Never ignore the sound of the
alarm! Pressing the test/reset buon will silence the alarm. If the CO condion that caused the alert
connues, the alarm will reacvate. If the unit alarms again within six minutes, it is sensing high
levels of CO which can quickly become a dangerous situaon.
PHO E UMBER:
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6. WHAT IS CARBON MONOXIDE?
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a highly poisonous gas with no taste, colour or smell.
Potenal Sources of CO
•Wood-burning stoves
•Gas boilers and fires
•Gas Hobs
•Oil and coal burning appliances
•Portable gas heaters
•Blocked flues and chimneys
•Fumes from integral garages
•Barbecues
•High concentraons of tobacco smoke
This CO alarm is not a substute for the correct
maintenance of your appliances.
Carbon monoxide can be produced from poorly burning
appliances or from blocked flues and chimneys.
If your alarm has sounded and you have venlated the
room the CO may have dispersed before help arrives. It is
crucial that the source of CO is determined and
appropriate maintenance carried out.
Carbon monoxide is a cumulave poison. This alarm is me-weighted – the higher the level of CO,
the sooner it will alarm.
NOTE: The apparatus may respond to brief exhaust gas emissions, for example during the inial
start-up of an appliance. Also, hydrogen acts as an interferent and can arise from some baery
charging acvies and the curing of concrete or cement under certain circumstances. Volale
Organic Compounds (VOCs), e.g. alcohols, which may eventually acvate the alarm, can be
generated from use of damp-proofing materials or other coangs containing alkylalkoxysilanes.
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7. IMPORTANT CARBON MONOXIDE SAFETY INFORMATION
The table below shows the response mes at which your CO alarm will sound;
(Alarm levels as defined by EN50291-1:2010)
CO Advice and Informaon
The table below shows the effects of different levels of CO poisoning on the body;
Parts per Million (PPM) of CO Time unl Alarm
50 60 – 90 minutes
100 10 – 40 minutes
300 Must alarm in less than 3 minutes
Parts per Million (PPM) Effects on Adults
100 Slight headache, nausea, fague (flu-like symptoms)
200 Dizziness and headache within 2 – 3 hours
400 Nausea, frontal headache, drowsiness, confusion and rapid heart rate. Risk to life
aer over 3 hours of exposure
800 Severe headaches, convulsions, vital organ failures. Death possible within 2 – 3 hours
Warning: The device cannot prevent against the chronic effects of exposure to carbon
monoxide or protect individuals who are at specific risk.
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8. RECOMMENDED LOCATIONS FOR THIS ALARM
• Locate in each sleeping area / bedroom, parcularly if the room has a fuel burning appli-
ance. Locate 1 to 3 metres from the appliance.
• If installing in the kitchen, locate 1 to 3 metres away from direct cooking areas.
• CO alarms in rooms with sloped ceilings should be located on the high side of the room.
• If there is a paron in the room, locate the alarm on the same side of the paron as the
potenal source.
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