wireless smoke alarm

[Mousefield]

Oh no. My coffee bean roasting smoke is of no consequence. It happens all the time. There's no flame and I'm always right there watching the roast. I just have to press the shhh button on the alarm. Now if all five alarms were going off then I'd have to run around the house temporarily disabling the alarms.
And if I was doing that, I would not be monitoring the ongoing roast. That part is dangerous.
I hope that everyone is aware that there are two types of detectors. The ion type that detects small not-visible particles and the optical type that detects visible smoke. I have both types and one with a dual detector. It is the ion detector that goes off when I roast beans.

Usually smoke detectors should not be put in areas were there will be lots of false alarms. Kind of defeats the purpose. Places like kitchens, near fire places and wood stoves and inside or just outside bathrooms are poor choices. I guess where you roast coffee is another one. Can you move the smoke detector in that location so it will not false alarm as much? Many location were they know they will have lots of fumes will put in heat detectors instead of smoke detector, like garages, warehouses were they have propane forklifts etc.

 

[ragkar]

I roast in the kitchen next to the range downdraft fan. The detector that give me false alarms is in a hallway next to the bedrooms.

 

[dmccarty]

Usually smoke detectors should not be put in areas were there will be lots of false alarms. Kind of defeats the purpose. Places like kitchens, near fire places and wood stoves and inside or just outside bathrooms are poor choices.

The problem is the building code. NC code requires a smoke alarm in every bedroom and outside of every bedroom door.

Right outside our bedroom door is the wood stove so there is a smoke detector. Given our open house design any smoke dumped out of the stove rapidly runs to the other end of the house and hits a wall. Right were there is another smoke alarm.

In our kitchen anything burnt on the stove will quickly send smoke to a smoke detector. The only solution is to keep the wifey away from the stove.....



Later,
Dan