Warranty

WARNING!! USE ONLY THE BATTERIES SPECIFIED. USE OF
DIFFERENT BATTERIES MAY HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT
ON THE SMOKE ALARM.
CLEANING YOUR ALARM
YOUR ALARM SHOULD BE CLEANED AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR
To clean your alarm, remove it from the mounting bracket as out-
lined in the beginning of this section. You can clean the interior
of your alarm (sensing chamber) by using compressed air or a vac-
uum cleaner hose and blowing or vacuuming through the open-
ings around the perimeter of the alarm. The outside of the alarm
can be wiped with a damp cloth. If cleaning does not restore the
alarm to normal operation the alarm should be replaced.
After cleaning, reinstall your alarm. Test your alarm by using the
test button and check that the green LED is on.
7. LIMITATIONS OF SMOKE ALARMS
WARNING: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY
• NFPA 72 states: Life safety from fire in residential occupancies is
based primarily on early notification to occupants of the need to
escape, followed by the appropriate egress actions by those
occupants. Fire warning systems for dwelling units are capable
of protecting about half of the occupants in potentially fatal
fires. Victims are often intimate with the fire, too old or young,
or physically or mentally impaired such that they cannot escape
even when warned early enough that escape should be possible.
For these people, other strategies such as protection-in-place or
assisted escape or rescue are necessary.
• Smoke alarms are devices that can provide early warning of pos-
sible fires at a reasonable cost; however, alarms have sensing lim-
itations. Ionization sensing alarms may detect invisible fire parti-
cles (associated with fast flaming fires) sooner than photoelectric
alarms. Photoelectric sensing alarms may detect visible fire parti-
cles (associated with slow smoldering fires) sooner than ioniza-
tion alarms. Home fires develop in different ways and are often
unpredictable. For maximum protection, Kidde recommends that
both Ionization and Photoelectric alarms be installed.
• Abatterypoweredalarmmusthaveabatteryofthespecifiedtype,
ingood conditionand installedproperly.