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Re: ESLiminated



Gotta shoot some canned smoke into them... the test button is notoriously
unreliable as an indicator of functionality. That's why most Fire Marshal
tests don't allow the test button as a proper alarm simulation test.
Photo-electrics are pretty reliable, but the test button is a joke.


"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Nick Markowitz said:
>
>>Once again It was my delight to pull from service a bunch of worthless and
>>do nothing but false ESL 500 series smokes. .Although these were close to
>>12
>>years old the Systems sensor smokes in this friends fire station have
>>never
>>once falsed or needed replaced ,and still work like they are suppose to.
>
> I'll certainly agree that ESL smokes cause false alarms as they get older.
> They always have.   I hate them with a passion.
>
> But System Sensor smokes have problems all their own.  They tend to stop
> working, and not tell anybody.  For example, I went to a house we did
> about
> five years ago; the people finally decided they wanted monitoring.  Two of
> the five smokes (2100 series) were no longer working.  The lights blinked.
> The panel didn't see any problems (two-wire smokes).  But when you pushed
> the test button on the smokes, nothing happened.  And this is not the only
> house I've seen this on. (And yes, replacing the smoke solved the
> problem.)
>
> So, would you rather have a detector that causes false alarms, or one that
> doesn't work at all?
>
> - badenov
>




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