Re: ESLiminated

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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