Re: ESLiminated

["Stanley Barthfarkle" <sbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>