I'm confused by something.
I have an M1G, and for one location have a wireless heat detector "connected" to it. All other smoke/heats are wired.
This detector is near an attic access, and now twice when someone went up there, it emitted a trouble indication.
The M1G shows trouble until you acknowledge the trouble, then it stops showing trouble.
I'm not sure what to make of this -- in particular how to fix it. Does the fact it no longer shows trouble mean it is intermittent, reacting specifically to the event? I am not using the tamper feature of the device, so not sure what else would emit a trouble signal momentarily only (e.g. if it lost battery contact I would think it would just go off line, and the trouble indication would be after the timeout -- the trouble indication is immediately on someone going into the attic).
I've gone up and removed the device, reinstalled it, banged on it by hand - nothing new happens. But then again, I'm not sure whether some timer in the M1G might mask that. I have not tried waiting a day or so and trying to bang on it manually; I will try that next.
Does someone have the details on how trouble works with one-direction RF devices like this? You can't send a reset to the device, so what happens? When I acknowledge the alarm, and nothing new happens, does that mean it is no longer sending trouble? Or does the M1G ignore trouble after acknowledgement for some period?
Any idea what sort of trouble this might be?
The display/voice indication is clearly trouble, not alarm, by the way -- and Alarm Relay also gets a trouble, not alarm signal.
I do have fresh batteries in it (after the first event I swapped the battery), and took everything down and apart and put it all back.
Any thoughts as to cause? The device is about 5' across the ceiling from the pull-down attic stairs, all in a garage. It doesn't do it every time -- I've been up their dozens of times without setting it off. BUt lately it has been about 2 times in maybe 4 times up there.
New detector? Just assume this is bad?
I have an M1G, and for one location have a wireless heat detector "connected" to it. All other smoke/heats are wired.
This detector is near an attic access, and now twice when someone went up there, it emitted a trouble indication.
The M1G shows trouble until you acknowledge the trouble, then it stops showing trouble.
I'm not sure what to make of this -- in particular how to fix it. Does the fact it no longer shows trouble mean it is intermittent, reacting specifically to the event? I am not using the tamper feature of the device, so not sure what else would emit a trouble signal momentarily only (e.g. if it lost battery contact I would think it would just go off line, and the trouble indication would be after the timeout -- the trouble indication is immediately on someone going into the attic).
I've gone up and removed the device, reinstalled it, banged on it by hand - nothing new happens. But then again, I'm not sure whether some timer in the M1G might mask that. I have not tried waiting a day or so and trying to bang on it manually; I will try that next.
Does someone have the details on how trouble works with one-direction RF devices like this? You can't send a reset to the device, so what happens? When I acknowledge the alarm, and nothing new happens, does that mean it is no longer sending trouble? Or does the M1G ignore trouble after acknowledgement for some period?
Any idea what sort of trouble this might be?
The display/voice indication is clearly trouble, not alarm, by the way -- and Alarm Relay also gets a trouble, not alarm signal.
I do have fresh batteries in it (after the first event I swapped the battery), and took everything down and apart and put it all back.
Any thoughts as to cause? The device is about 5' across the ceiling from the pull-down attic stairs, all in a garage. It doesn't do it every time -- I've been up their dozens of times without setting it off. BUt lately it has been about 2 times in maybe 4 times up there.
New detector? Just assume this is bad?