Recent content by rfortuna

Thanks for everyone's thoughts.   For the time being we have turned the system off and put temporary smoke detectors in the house, but we are still home to resurrect the ELK.   To respond to the comments: 1) This was a professional installation and all of the wiring was meticulous.  The...

The smokes were confirmed new.   We have a total of 5 smokes, 1 heat sensor, and 2 CO detectors that are all powered from the panel. 

The system and sensors and approx 2 years old.  The system worked well for the first year, but has been having numerous false alarms since.   We cannot identify anything that has changed.  

We have an Elk M1 Gold wIth 4-wire GE smokes (541NCSXT) throughout the house and a heat detector in the kitchen.  The smokes are wired to different zones.   We have had multiple false alarms over the past 4 months.  Each false alarm has been from a different smoke detector.  The smoke detectors...