cptbeyond
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- wrentham, ma
Has anyone ever experienced one or more of the following after having installed a 120v BRK smoke system, new construction residential application. Mind that these issues arise after I have tested it and the FD has tested it. Start to receive phone calls from the homeowners 3 - 6 months after they have moved in. Also, not every system experiences these problems. Maybe 1-3 houses a year for about 4 years now.
1. Smokes going into alarm randomly. I have spoken to people where it usually takes place only at night, after 8pm not every night. I have also in some situations been able to narrow down the problem detector, replace it and fix the issue. It has been either the photoelectric or combo photo/CO, never the heat.
2. Hearing "end of life" chirps (5 chirps every minute according to the manual). Or "malfunction" chirps (3 chirps every minute) randomly. Once again usually after 8pm and not every night also not signaling every minute as it should according to the manual if in fact the device has expired.
3. BRK smoke right out of the box malfunctioning. I got two today, one did not make a battery connection when closing the compartment. The second gave me malfunction chirps upon the first press of the test button.
My smokes are on a 15amp arc fault circuit CHBR breaker. I wire lighting into the smoke circuit never any outlets. (I use to experience vacuum cleaners setting them off upon powering up the vacuum) I usually HR the smoke in the basement to the panel and feed nearby light switches off of the smokes. (for instance usually my bedroom light feeds comes right out of the smoke in the bedrooms)
Also, my supply house told me that just in the past 30 days BRK has replaced a "chip" in their photo/CO combo. He did not know why they replaced the chip or what prompted them to do it. The two smokes I got today had the new "chip".
1. Smokes going into alarm randomly. I have spoken to people where it usually takes place only at night, after 8pm not every night. I have also in some situations been able to narrow down the problem detector, replace it and fix the issue. It has been either the photoelectric or combo photo/CO, never the heat.
2. Hearing "end of life" chirps (5 chirps every minute according to the manual). Or "malfunction" chirps (3 chirps every minute) randomly. Once again usually after 8pm and not every night also not signaling every minute as it should according to the manual if in fact the device has expired.
3. BRK smoke right out of the box malfunctioning. I got two today, one did not make a battery connection when closing the compartment. The second gave me malfunction chirps upon the first press of the test button.
My smokes are on a 15amp arc fault circuit CHBR breaker. I wire lighting into the smoke circuit never any outlets. (I use to experience vacuum cleaners setting them off upon powering up the vacuum) I usually HR the smoke in the basement to the panel and feed nearby light switches off of the smokes. (for instance usually my bedroom light feeds comes right out of the smoke in the bedrooms)
Also, my supply house told me that just in the past 30 days BRK has replaced a "chip" in their photo/CO combo. He did not know why they replaced the chip or what prompted them to do it. The two smokes I got today had the new "chip".
