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YOUR ALARM SHOULD BE CLEANED AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR
To clean your alarm, remove it from the mounting bracket. 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 perimeter 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 and check that the Red LED
ashes once every 60 seconds. Then test your alarm by using the
test button.
10. Cleaning Your Alarm
11. Limitations Of Smoke Alarms
Warning! Smoke alarms are devices that can provide early
warning of possible res; however, alarms have sensing limitations.
Ionisation sensing alarms may detect invisible re particles (associated
with fast aming res) sooner than photoelectric alarms. Photoelectric
sensing alarms may detect visible re particles (associated with slow
smouldering res) sooner than ionisation alarms.
Home res develop in different ways and are often unpredictable.
For maximum protection, subject to applicable legal requirements in
each State and Territory, Quell recommends that both ionisation and
photoelectric alarms be installed.
Loose batteries, where tted, must be of the specied type, in good
condition and installed properly. AC only powered alarms will not operate
if AC power has been cut off such as by an electrical re, an open fuse
or loss of mains supply. All alarms must be tested regularly to make sure
the batteries and the alarm circuits are in good operating condition.
Life safety from re in residential occupancies is based primarily on
early notication to occupants of the need to escape, followed by the
appropriate egress actions by those occupants. If the alarm is located
outside the sleeping room or on a different oor, it may not wake up a
sound sleeper. The use of alcohol or drugs may also impair one’s ability
to hear the smoke alarm. For maximum protection, a smoke alarm
should be installed in each sleeping area on every level of a home.
Smoke alarms cannot provide an alarm if smoke does not reach the unit.
Therefore, smoke alarms may not sense res starting in chimneys, walls,
on roofs, on the other side of a closed door or on a different oor.
Hearing impaired occupiers should consider tting additional
accessories to give a visual or tactile(Vibrating pad) alarm.
Although smoke alarms can help save lives by providing an early
warning of a re, they do not prevent property damage. Home owners
and renters should have adequate insurance to protect their property. If
after reviewing this user guide you feel that your smoke alarm isdefective
in any way,do not tamper with the unit. Refer to Section 14 Warranty and
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