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Old 12-22-2023, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael 61 View Post
For those who have asked - I just passed my one year, so I won’t be able to call the warranty dept.

I’m in a patio villa with an open floor plan - the alarm is not located in my kitchen, but very high up in my hallway, just outside my master bedroom (the second alarm is located inside my master bedroom, also very high up next to the ceiling.)
As others have mentioned, the first thing to try is to replace the detector with the exact same type. You just rotate the detector counterclockwise, pull it off of the base, unplug it, and plug in the new one. This will tell you if the issue is a defective detector or an air flow problem. Note that the absence of smoke has nothing to do with the alarm going off. The detectors do not detect smoke, they detect invisible ionized particles.