In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:55:51 -0400, micky
wrote:

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.

One pdf file says "Operates the same as the standard Fire zone, except
the alarm memory and transmission by the communicator is
delayed by 30 seconds. If the alarm is acknowledged by pressing any key
within 30 seconds, the bells will silence and
the transmission will be aborted. If the alarm has been acknowledged,
and the smoke detector has not been
restored to normal, the bell output will activate after 90 seconds. The
user then has another 30 second delay before
the bell output latches and communications is activated. A code is then
required to silence the bell output."

No hint that the delay time can be changed. ;-(

Looking further, again no hint. What a bummer.


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