JumpinJack
New Member
I just bought my house which is about 9 years old and equipped with 110V smoke detectors. All has been fine with them until I turned on the evaporative cooling system. Whenever the cooling system is on (blowing air throughout the house) one or more of the smoke detectors intermittently falses, setting off all of the others. They trip for only about 30- 60 seconds and then reset. Generally this happens at night when I am fast asleep. :angry: This may happen just once during the night or several times. I haven't been able to isolate which is the culprit setting off the rest because by the time I pull myself off the ceiling from a dead sleep, they are all going off.
I am guessing there may be dust within the detector that is getting "stirred" up when the evap starts blowing. If this is the case, what is the best method of cleaning them? Canned air or vacuuming them? I don't want to damage them in the process of trying to rectify the falsing. Or would I be better off just replacing them? I have no idea what they cost, but I figure I have at least 6 to replace.
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
As would the restful sleep.
I am guessing there may be dust within the detector that is getting "stirred" up when the evap starts blowing. If this is the case, what is the best method of cleaning them? Canned air or vacuuming them? I don't want to damage them in the process of trying to rectify the falsing. Or would I be better off just replacing them? I have no idea what they cost, but I figure I have at least 6 to replace.
Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
