In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:48:56 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 7/4/2018 12:03 PM, micky wrote:


But lightning** is not what
I'm worried about. It's my cooking. In the past I've set the smoke
alarm off maybe 10 times in the last 15 years, so I expect to do it
again. However in the past, I had no monitoring, just the smoke alarm,
so if it buzzed, I'd go upstairs and wave a magazine undeneath it until
it stopped. And that was the end of it for a year or two.

What do other people do?


Mine is not monitored. It has a button to push and it stops it for
about 10 minutes or so. Perhaps you can change the device?

I tried to find something like this, but I think I need a keyword that
means "stop for 10 minutes" (until the smoke goes away anyhow.)

I did hunt through some alarm documents and I found that there already
is a 30-second delay.

Unless I can find a better smoke alarm, I need about a 5 minute delay,
to give myself time to go upstairs and use a magazine to blow away the
smoke. It's very hard to understand the alarm manual, and I haven't
even found the right pdf file or the right setting, so it will probably
take 2 hours at least.


I set it off at least twice a month if I forget to turn on the vent over
the range.