Gary Darling
Regional Manager, Western Canada
Kidde Canada Inc.
(800)663-0703 (T) gary.darling@kiddecanada.com

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms
OVERVIEW:
 What is new in residential smoke alarms
 Future Code Changes
 Children and smoke alarms
 Smoke Alarm Statistics
 Photoelectric vs. Ionization – The Great Debate
 CSA, cUL, and smoke alarms
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 The characteristics of Carbon Monoxide
 Features of Carbon Monoxide Alarms
 Negative Air Pressure in residential situations

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How Kidde Increases Awareness
HIGHLIGHTS
 Social Networking/Viral campaigns
 5 million pieces of Direct Mail since ’08
 Partner in University Safety Program

How Kidde drives business
HIGHLIGHTS

Safe at Home web site surpasses
500,000 hits; 60,000 visits and
140,000 page views www.safeathome.ca

16 million impressions for national syndicated feature article service

Sponsorship of New Brunswick firefighters competing at World
Police/Fire Games in NYC

Sponsorship of Quebec Safety
Ministry’s Fire Prevention Week campaign
New NON-BRANDED
Website re-launched mid Sept 2012

 What’s new in residential smoke alarms
 Future Code Changes
 Children and smoke alarms
 Smoke Alarm Statistics
 Photoelectric vs. Ionization
 CSA, cUL, and smoke alarms

Photoelectric Combo Intelligent Detection 6 “Worry-Free” SKUs
Remote Hush Low Profile Wireless

U.S. Housing Market Profile
18%
82%
Homes that may have interconnected alarms or detectors
Homes that do not have interconnected alarms or detectors
Nearly 90 million homes do not have interconnected smoke alarms, in Canada the percentage is likely higher.

For homes without interconnected hardwire Smoke Alarms
(Built before 1990)
Points to Consider;

Closing a door reduces a smoke alarm’s sound level by 10 dBA.

A smoke alarm has a sound level of
85 dBA near the kitchen, but drops to
56.6 dBA in the upstairs master bedroom and 46.5 dBA if the door is closed.

If this alarm was connected to one upstairs, the upstairs alarm would be
76 dBA in master bedroom.
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Most adults require at least 75 dBA to wake from sleep.

Kidde Wireless Smoke Alarms operate at a frequency band of 434.4
MHz which is dedicated to devices that are not permitted to transmit continuously and are limited in their transmission time unless a life safety alarm occurs, so they will not interfere with other wireless systems in the home.
Each alarm has 256 individual identification settings so a homeowner can program their own ID, much like garage door openers.
The average home’s distance from one corner of the basement to the opposite corner of the second floor is 100 ft. The range of wireless alarms is approx. 200 feet, but all installations should be tested once installed.
The initiating alarm can be determined by the green LED that will flash. The green
LED on the smoke alarms that sounded but did not sense the smoke, will not flash.

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Remote Test o Allows you to test any wireless unit from any other unit

Smart Hush™ and Remote Hush o Allows you to temporarily silence a nuisance alarm

Low Battery Hush o Postpones the low battery chirp for 12 hours

10 year electronic expiration o Ensures that alarms are replaced and upgraded after 10 years of service

– the first radical change in
Smoke Alarm design since they were developed

Low Profile Design
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Ionization

One button test and Hush™
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Sealed Rechargeable Battery
Backup (Lasts for the life of the alarm – 10 years)

LED indicates alarm condition

Alarm memory

End of Life Signal

Requires a deep octagon box

 Backlit Digital Display
 Peak Level / Test Butto
 Sealed Rechargeable b
 Lasts for 7 years – life o
 LED indicates alarm co
 Alarm Memory
 End of Life Signal

Remote Control Hush …
Excellent idea for the elderly, those with disabilities who can’t reach the hush button, and high ceilings
Suggested
Retail
$29 to $39

New Product – Recommended for small suites with kitchens
Talking Carbon Monoxide and
Photoelectric Smoke Alarm
Hardwire Front Load Battery
Backup
900-0213
Photoelectric and CO sensors
Voice announces:
• CO or Fire
• Low battery
• Hush mode activated / cancelled
• CO previously detected
• Push test button
Front load B/U battery – alarm doesn’t need to be removed from bracket to replace battery
Adjustable / locking mounting bracket
Hardwire interconnect / common harness
10 year Life and Warranty

New Product
Carbon Monoxide Alarm – Hardwire with Battery Back up
Contractor – Friendly Features
Battery Pull Tab – Eliminates battery installation time and keeps battery fresh
900-0128
Adjustable Mounting Bracket – Allows for fast installation and perfect alignment
Quick Connect – Installs quickly with snap-on harness
Sealed Cover – Reduces nuisance alarms. Sealed to protect sensor from contaminants prior to installation
Tamper Resist Locking Feature – To deter battery and alarm theft

Interconnected Carbon Monoxide
Alarms and Smoke Alarms
Interconnected smoke alarms will not sound during a
Carbon Monoxide event, if connected to either a combo or CO alarm only!

Talking Battery Operated Combo Alarm
Intelligent Technology:
When Smoke or CO is detected, the alarm will automatically adjust its smoke sensitivity in order to react quicker to a real hazard and differentiate from false alarm
Reduces common household nuisance alarms
900-0220
10 year Life and Warranty

Smoke Alarms
10 Year Sealed Lithium Battery – Battery never needs changing
P3010K-CA
KITCHEN
Smoke Alarm
Hush Button to temporarily silence nuisance alarm
P3010B-CA
Bedroom
Smoke Alarm
Talking Voice Alarm improves wakening – when it alarms advises “Fire/Feu”
Hush Button to temporarily silence nuisance alarm
P3010H-CA
Hallway
Smoke Alarm
Super Bright LED light provides lighted escape path
Hush Button to temporarily silence nuisance alarm

Combination and CO Alarms
10 Year Sealed Lithium Battery – Battery never need changing
P3010l-CO-CA
Living Area
COMBINATION
Smoke and CO Alarm
Intelligent Photoelectric
Technology – Detects fire quickly and reduces false alarm
Hush Button to temporarily silence nuisance alarms
C3010-CA Living
Area CO Alarm
Protection + Sealed battery and portable
Peak level memory – notifies of a CO event in the last 14 days
C3010D-CA Living
Area Digital CO Alarm
Digital Readout – from 30-999 ppm provides continuous monitoring of CO levels
Protection + Sealed battery and portable

A front- loading battery door speeds installation and makes battery replacement simple – change the battery without removing the alarm from the ceiling
Adults 65+ have a fire death rate of 2.5 times that of general population.
Adults 75+ have a fire death rate of 3 times that of the general population.
U.S. Fire Administration White Paper
Ideal for those with reduced mobility!

The alarm has a sealed battery to inhibit tampering with alarm – preventing the removal of batteries from a smoke alarm ensures continuous protection
0910CA
Suggested
Retail
$29 .99
Batteries in the alarm cannot be used for anything else
Has a Hush Button, to silence alarms due to cooking or other temporary causes

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5 Inch

5 year warranty

Most popular battery alarm

Widely used in Property Management
0916KCA
0910CA
10 year Lithium battery (Sealed)
10 year warranty
0918KCA
Escape Light
10 year warranty
PE9KCA
Reduces nuisance alarms due to cooking
10 year warranty
0976CA
Front-Load
Battery
10 year warranty
900-0257
Remote Hush
10 year warranty

 Dual Ionization and Photoelectric with Battery Backup
 NFPA recommends both technologies in all homes for optimum protection
 10 year warranty
 Pi2010CA
 Wireless Interconnect
 Saves money remodeling
 Alerted to Fire quicker
 End of Life Notification
 10 year warranty
 900-0201
 Rechargeable battery backup
 Sealed battery
 End of Life Notification
 Award winning appearance
 10 year warranty
 900-0252

Upcoming Code Changes in
2010 National Building Code
 Smoke Alarm in every bedroom
 All Smoke Alarms to have battery backup
 Smoke Alarms must have Hush button
 Change in Temporal Horn Pattern

Fires originating in bedrooms account for the 2 nd highest causes of fire deaths in the home

 If fire starts in bedroom, waiting until a hall mounted alarm senses the smoke causes an unacceptable delay, especially if the door is closed.
 If the fire originates elsewhere, the audibility of the alarm is increased inside the bedroom, especially if the door is closed.
 Smoke alarm in hallway still required as they are better able to detect smoke outside the bedroom.

Power outages in Ontario and Maritimes in
2003 left people with inoperable smoke alarms resulting in fatalities

Hush Button

 The Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs are recommending use of smoke alarms with Hush Buttons.
 Statistics are showing that homeowners are disabling their smoke alarms due to nuisance alarms.
 Promoting the use of smoke alarms with hush buttons should reduce this practice.

Studies show as little as 6% of children aged 6
– 15 awoke reliably to standard alarm

T-3 Temporal Pattern

Heat Detectors in Garages SM120X
Heat detector can be interconnected with any hardwire Kidde alarms by using a relay. No alarm will sound in garage, but any interconnected alarms in house will alarm.
WARNING
Heat alarms are NOT categorized as Life Safety Devices, and must be used in conjunction with operating smoke alarms.

Heat Detectors in Garages
(Continued)
We are working on offering a heat detector without the need of using a relay that has cUL approval.
SM120X

Tips for Purchasing, Maintaining and Installing Smoke Alarms

If you or family member sleep with the bedroom door closed, install smoke alarms inside the bedroom.
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Not all individuals, particularly children, older people, and those with special needs, may wake up to the sound of a smoke alarm. You need to take this into consideration when developing an escape plan.

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According to the National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA), in one out of five homes that have smoke alarms, none of the units work, mainly due to dead, missing or disconnected batteries.
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Nearly half of the nation's fire deaths occur in the four percent of homes that do not have smoke alarms. (NFPA)
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The risk of dying in homes without smoke alarms is twice as high as it is in homes that have working smoke alarms. (Consumer Product Safety
Commission)

www.safeathome.ca
… reminds Canadians not to make the mistake of putting new batteries into smoke alarms that are more than 10 years old. The majority of
Canadians believe smoke alarms last indefinitely, when in fact, the sensors wear out and environmental issues effect them over time. The National Fire Protection
Association advises homeowners to replace smoke alarms every 10 years .

Studies by the NFPA show a marked reduction in functionality in 30% of smoke alarms over ten years old
– Causes:

Dust
 Pollen

Pet dander
 Cooking emulsions

Insects
 Lack of proper maintenance/cleaning
– Proper maintenance/cleaning will improve the service life of a smoke alarm – BUT how many people perform regular maintenance on their home smoke alarms?

Clean the cover monthly using a soft brush or wand attachment to a vacuum cleaner - keep all vents free of debris – clean off residual dirt – per the product manual instructions

Playing with Fire: Majority (55%) of Canadians Have Removed Batteries or Tampered With Smoke Alarms Due to False Alarm
One-half (54%) of those have forgotten to put batteries back in or re-install Smoke Alarm on ceiling
Public Release Date: March 3, 2008
Moving past the simple task of replacing batteries, though, the data reveal that many Canadians seem unaware of the necessity of changing the actual smoke alarm unit and not just the battery. More specifically, four in ten (37%) believe that battery-operated smoke alarms last for as long as their in their house, provided that the batteries are changed regularly, and a similar proportion (35%) thinks that smoke alarms that are wired into their home’s electrical system never need to be replaced.
But while three quarters (74%) suggest that pushing the test button on a smoke alarm and hearing a response means that the alarm is working properly and does not need to be replaced, contradictorily, three quarters (77%) agree that smoke alarms should be replaced every ten years, even if they still seem to be working correctly.

Changes in Home Furnishings/Environment
Increases Risk, Decreases Escape Time
 2004 study by NIST showed that home fires are burning hotter and up to 5 times faster than they did 30 years ago
 Increase use of plastics in the home
 New synthetic materials in upholstery and furniture
 Increase in home size
 New building materials burn much faster and hotter

Lightweight Truss Construction
 OSB (Oriented strand board) burns hotter and provided less support to Fire Fighters upon entry, so much so that Fire
Services have to re-evaluate entering newer homes that use this material unless they know someone is inside.
 Additionally, the metal gusset plates typically have approximately 1” teeth. When these are combined with fast burning OSB, the failure time is significantly less.

CAN/ULC S-531 Requirements
 A smoke alarm shall be permanently marked in
English and French
 Also include the year of expiry with a label.
“Replace in XXXX”
(year) that can be read when the alarm is installed

Preceding 3 pages taken from: http://www.firefyi.org/pdf/Photo-Ion%20Brochure.pdf

Recent Task Group Report
(Ionization vs. Photoelectric)
For anyone that is interested in receiving a copy of this report you can email the request to me and I will forward it to you.
Gary Darling
Regional Sales Manager gary.darling@kiddecanada.com

United States Fire Administration:
Because both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms are better at detecting distinctly different yet potentially fatal fires, and because homeowners cannot predict what type of fire might start in a home, the USFA recommends the installation of both ionization and photoelectric or dual sensor alarms.
The International Association of Fire Chiefs:
Since it cannot be predicted what type of fire will start in a home, it is important that both smoldering and flaming fires are detected as quickly as possible. The best protection is to have both types of smoke alarms installed, or install dual sensing technology smoke alarms that incorporate both ionization/photoelectric sensors.
National Fire Protection Association:
Smoke alarms using either ionization or photoelectric smoke detection technologies, installed per NFPA 72-2007, are generally providing acceptable response to smoldering fires. More tests are needed regarding photoelectric alarm’s response in flaming scenarios.
National Association of State Fire Marshals:
Early detection of fires is crucial to escape time, because the time to untenable conditions in residences can be as little as 3 minutes for typical flaming fire scenarios. Both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarm technologies quickly alert occupants in most fire scenarios… To ensure that both smoldering and flaming fires are detected as quickly as possible, the best protection is to have both types of alarms installed, or dual ionization/photoelectric alarms.
National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Smoke alarms of either the ionization type or the photoelectric type consistently provided time for occupants to escape from most residential fires.…
Consistent with prior findings, ionization type alarms provided somewhat better response to flaming fires than photoelectric alarms, and photoelectric alarms provided (often) considerably faster response to smoldering fires than ionization type alarms.... Smoke alarms of either type installed on every level generally provided positive escape times for different fire types and locations.
Consumer Product Safety Commission:
Because both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms are better at detecting distinctly different yet potentially fatal fires, and because homeowners cannot predict what type of fire might start in a home, CPSC staff recommends consumers install both ionization and photoelectric type smoke alarms in their home.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL):
While photoelectric smoke alarms generally respond faster to smoldering smoke conditions and ionization smoke alarms generally respond faster to flaming fire conditions, both types provide adequate protection against fire. Combination smoke alarms featuring both photoelectric and ionization technology are also available at hardware, department and home improvement stores http://www.firefyi.org/safety/subsection.php?ssid=84

Smoke Alarm – Pi2010CA 120Volts with Battery Back up
Ionization – Better at detecting fast flaming fires – a flaming fire devours combustibles quickly, spreads rapidly and generates considerable heat with little smoke.
Photoelectric – Better at detecting slow smoldering fires – A smoldering fire generates large amounts of thick, black smoke with little heat and may smolder for hours before bursting into flames.

The blow torch method…
… don’t try this at home!

Many people think that smoke enters the alarm here. This hole is where the horn is located.
Smoke actually enters an alarm around the circumference! So if a candle (or blow torch) is held to close to the cover, it may take the alarm quite some time to sound.
(or maybe ignite alarm)

Correct Method of Testing a Smoke Alarm

 The characteristics of Carbon Monoxide
 Features of Carbon Monoxide Alarms
 Negative Air Pressure in residential situations

 A by-product of incomplete combustion
 Harmful because it bonds with the blood and prevents oxygen from being delivered to the brain
 Has 200 times the affinity for blood as Oxygen
 Is measured in parts per million (PPM)
 Carbon monoxide is the leading cause of death by poisoning in the United States
Sources: Institute for environmental medicine
There are many sources of CO:
Furnaces, gas stoves, gas clothes dryers and water heaters, vehicles in attached garages (even with the garage door opened) and back drafting with changes in pressure.

Carbon Monoxide Alarms
CSA 6.19-01 Standards
CO alarms that meet this standard will have been tested for a designed lifespan of at least 3 years and require either an automatic device or a marked replacement date to indicate that the designed lifespan has been exceeded.
NO Audible or Visual WARNINGS, (No Digital Displays), at 30 ppm for 30 DAYS
NO Audible or Visual WARNINGS, at
70 ppm ......... For less than 60 Minutes
150 ppm ....... for less than 10 Minutes
400 ppm ....... for less than 4 Minutes
MUST ALARM at:
70 ppm ..... anytime between 60 and 240 Minutes, (4 hours)
150 ppm ... anytime between 10 and 50 Minutes
400 ppm ... anytime between 4 and 15 Minutes
CSA-6.19-01 Requires BOTH, Time of Manufacture, and “Life-Time” Reliability Testing.
UL-2034 Requires NO, Time of Manufacture, or Life-Time” Reliability Testing.

Concentration of
CO in air measured in parts per million
50 ppm
200 ppm
Approximate Inhalation Time and Symptoms developed
The maximum allowable concentration for continuous exposure for healthy adults in any 8 hour period
Slight headache, fatigue, dizziness, nausea after 2-3 hours
400 ppm
800 ppm
1600 ppm
Frontal headaches within 1-2 hours, life threatening after 3 hours
Dizziness, nausea, convulsions within 45 minutes, Unconsciousness within 2 hours. Death within 2 – 3 hours
Headache, Dizziness and nausea within 20 minutes. Death within 1 hour
3200 ppm
6400 ppm
12800 ppm
Headache, Dizziness and nausea within 5-10 minutes. Death within 25-30 minutes
Headache, Dizziness and nausea within 1 - 2 minutes. Death within 10-15 minutes
Death within 1-3 minutes

 Our alarm will not activate until after 30 ppm over 30 days.
 This is to guard against environmental situations like what happened during the temperature inversion experienced in
Chicago many years ago.
 However, on our alarms equipped with digital readout, the test button can be pressed and reading below 30 ppm will be displayed since last time test button was pushed.
 Our alarm is designed to activate at 70 ppms after 1 hour, which should guard against transient CO conditions like starting up a gas fireplace, water heater or gas range.

 Most important location is in hallway close to bedrooms so it can be heard if it alarms while occupants are sleeping.
 An alarm installed close to furnace or fuel burning appliance may not be heard if bedroom doors are closed or ambient sound level exceeds remote alarm.
 Optimum coverage is to install a CO alarm on every level.

 Carbon Monoxide is harmful when breathed because it displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain, and other vital organs of oxygen.
 When blood carries CO rather than oxygen, the CO-carrying cells are called carboxyhemoglobin (COHb), in contrast to normal oxygen-carrying hemoglobin. A doctor can measure COHb in the blood but cannot measure CO in the body directly. The more CO in the body, the higher the
COHb, and the sicker the person will be.
"They're very similar symptoms.. You see the headache, the nausea, with carbon monoxide probably the fever won't be present like the flu symptoms," John Baker with the Hannibal Fire Department said.
And there are precautions you can take.
Just how sick people get from CO exposure varies greatly from person to person, depending on age, weight, overall health, concentration of exposure (measured in parts per million), and length of exposure.

The Provincial Codes are based on the 2005 National Building Code. The highlights regarding CO Alarms are;
 Required for any building that has a fuel burning appliance or attached garage.
 They are required to conform to CAN/CSA-6.19. If the alarm has a cUL certification, this means it must reference CSA-6.19. cUL alone is not enough.
 No disconnect switch between breaker and alarm.
 Must be installed outside the bedrooms, no more than 5 m from each bedroom door. If you have bedrooms on different floors, the CO Alarms must be interconnected. I don’t believe the code insists that they be interconnected with smoke alarms, but if you are using a combo, obviously the need to be.
LISTED
CSA 6.19-01

Carbon Monoxide
“can easily penetrate drywall … within
MINUTES”.
“Gypsum particles contain microscopic pores that are many times larger than CO molecules, allowing these dangerous molecules to easily penetrate drywall.”

 Carbon Monoxide is not heavier then air. http://www.epa.gov/iaq/co.html*
 In fact, it is .97 the weight of air
 A plug-in or ceiling mounted unit are equally effective
*Definition
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, practically odourless, and tasteless gas or liquid. It results from incomplete oxidation of carbon in combustion. Burns with a violet flame. Slightly soluble in water; soluble in alcohol and benzene.
Specific gravity
0.96716
; boiling point -190oC; solidification point -207oC; specific volume 13.8 cu. ft./lb. (70oF). Auto ignition temperature
(liquid) 1128oF. Classed as an inorganic compound.
Source: "The Condensed Chemical Dictionary," 9th ed., revised by Gessner G. Hawley, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., NY, 1977.
The molecular weight of CO is 28 grams per mole whereas the molecular weight of air is 29 grams per mole.

Fire Department Reminds Residents to Clear Vents
Josh Pringle
Monday, March 10, 2008
“The Ottawa Fire Service is reminding residents to clear snow away from snow-covered vents.
Firefighters responded to 20 carbon-monoxide related calls
Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Platoon Chief Paul Whitney tells CFRA News residents should make sure their furnace exhaust pipes and gas meters are clear of snow.
Clearing away snow from vents can stop the potential for carbonmonoxide build-ups inside the home”
CFRA 580
News Talk Radio

 Battery Backup
 Digital Readout
 “Voice” Feature
 Interconnectability with other alarms (Smoke or CO)
 Length of Life and how that is communicated

 Homeowners light candles during power outages – which pose a significant fire risk.
(Important if installing a combo smoke/CO)
 Greater likelihood of homeowner looking for alternative method of heating home, many of which produce Carbon Monoxide, during power disruption
 Fresh air intake and also exhaust fans are no longer operating

Battery
Hardwire
Plug in

 Some homeowners aren’t aware the alarm on their ceiling is monitoring smoke and CO. (Has the contractor left the instruction manual that identifies different alarm patterns if the alarm doesn’t have voice feature?)
 Opposite response for fire (keep windows closed), and Carbon Monoxide (open windows) and it is important to determine which it is as soon as possible. 2 to 3 minutes is the average time a homeowner has to get out of the house once the alarm has sounded, in the case of a fire, so the less confusion, the better. Home fires can double in size every 30 seconds.
 Some studies are showing that young children respond better to a voice than a 85db alarm

What is the chance you would remember which alarm pattern is which in the middle of the night?

 Code doesn’t specify whether smoke and CO alarms are required to be interconnected.
 When a Kidde smoke/CO alarm is interconnected with one of their smoke alarms, the combo will say “Fire, Fire” if one of the remote smoke alarms detects smoke
 All Kidde hardwire alarms are interconnectable

 For CSA 6.19-01 approval, CO alarms must meet or exceed a 3 year length of life test.
 The minimum requirement is for a sticker to be affixed to the alarm indicating when it’s life expectancy has been exceeded.
 Kidde CO Alarms will now begin to “chirp” once it’s life expectancy of 10 years has be surpassed.
(It is more dangerous to have a CO alarm that you think is working than to not have one at all)

Loose Wire
Connections
Trouble Shooting
Guide
Installed too close to fuel burning appliance
Mixing different brands (When interconnected)
Installed on same circuit as a dimmer or compact fluorescent bulb (separate circuit recommended)
Negative air pressure in house caused by exhaust fans
Use of solvents, aerosol sprays, paint, adhesives, etc.

Fireplace Usage
potentially deadly furnace chimney gasses drawn into house instead of being released through chimney .
Negative air pressure in house caused by exhaust fans and/or fireplace use
Furnace usage generally create about 50 cfm during operation
Fireplace use
(=240 cfm exhaust*)
*Average air leakage into a well insulated house is about 360 cfm at 25 Pascal negative air pressure (National Research Council CDB-222) The higher the outside temperature, the lower the natural draft so greater likelihood of occurring when weather is warmer.

Technical Standards and Safety Authority
News Release
**********************
“…In the Niagara Region case, TSSA’s investigation determined one root cause of the incident: negative pressure. After getting hit with a flood, the family hired a company to dry out their basement and prevent the growth of mould (as is often the recommended practice of insurers) with large ventilating fans. Unfortunately the basement also had a fuel-fired furnace and the company was unaware of any danger. The fans created a depressurized environment — or negative pressure — causing deadly carbon monoxide to spill back into the home and send four family members to hyperbaric chambers at a nearby hospital…”

Model SL177i for the Hearing Impaired
Strobes come in two types – those that are a light source only, and need to be connected to an alarm to flash, and those that are a combination sensor/light. The question that you have to ask is do you want the sensor where the light is?

This type has to be interconnected to an alarm
(smoke, heat, CO, and Combos)
It has two modes of flashing:
Continuous for fire mode
Interrupted for CO mode
(5 seconds on and 5 seconds off)

The SL177i Dual Mode strobe light is a 3 wire interconnect strobe light. It has 120 volt power applied to it all the time and has a green LED to confirm the presence of AC power. It is activated by an alarm interconnect signal.

Model SL177i for the Hearing Impaired
(Cont.)
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Help for the Hearing Impaired…
Traditional smoke detectors produce a high-pitched
(3,100 Hz) sound. Unfortunately, most hard of hearing people have significant hearing loss in the higher frequencies. Thus they cannot hear the very sound that is supposed to save their lives.
In addition to hard of hearing people, children, heavy sleepers, people taking sleeping pills and people who have had too much to drink often do not wake up to the traditional high-pitched smoke detectors either
.
Now there is a new kind of fire alarm—the Lifetone HL Bedside Fire Alarm & Clock—that is proven to waken people with high-frequency hearing loss, children, heavy sleepers, people on medications, etc. Studies show this fire alarm produces a loud low-frequency (520 Hz square wave) sound that penetrates the sleeping person's consciousness and wakes up more than 95%. That's good news!
More good news. Not only does the Lifetone HL Fire Alarm produce a loud, low-frequency sound, it also shakes your bed when it goes off. Other studies have shown that intermittent bed shakers, like the Lifetone has, wake virtually 100% of sleeping occupants. You won't be able to sleep through the double-whammy of the loud, low-frequency sound and the bed vibrating. This fire alarm aims to alert you in plenty of time so you can save your life.

SM120X CO120X
 Relay modules are used to extract a signal from the interconnected smoke alarms.
These signals can be use to activate auxiliary signaling devices such as bells and sirens or deactivate external devices such as whole house fans or attic ventilating fans. All Kidde relay modules have the same contact ratings. The relay switch contacts are rated at 10 amps at 120VAC (Non-inductive) and 5 amps at 32 volts
DC. Non-inductive means they cannot be used to control electric motors.
 They all have one Form “C” set of contacts (single pole double throw, normally open and normally closed)

If a motor needs to be controlled a motor contactor (high current switch) of the appropriate rating should be used. The Kidde relay modules are then use to activate the motor contactor.

It is possible to have an installation in which a Smoke / CO Combo alarm has a
SM120X and a CO120X relay module connect to the interconnect buss. This would allow for different external functions in a smoke and a CO condition.
 The could be as simple as wanting a 2 distinct signal sent back to the security system so that the system can distinguish between a smoke and CO condition.


Two and Three Storey Emergency Escape
Ladders

Having an escape ladder available during an emergency situation can mean the difference between life and death.

Worry-free Escape - Strong and Durable
Construction

Easy-to-use - Attaches Quickly to Most
Common Windows

Tangle-free design - Fast and Easy to
Deploy

Ready for use - No Tools or Assembly
Required

Ladder Tested to 900 pounds
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Anti-Slip Rungs

BC - This is the regular type of dry chemical extinguisher. It is filled with sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate. The BC variety leaves a mildly corrosive residue which must be cleaned immediately to prevent any damage to materials.
ABC - This is the multipurpose dry chemical extinguisher. The ABC type is filled with monoammonium phosphate, a yellow powder that leaves a sticky residue that may be damaging to electrical appliances such as a computers, stove tops or vehicle engines.

For release in 2014 – First Consumer Fire Safety APP
• Room-by-room safety evaluation of home
• Customized recommendations for improvement
• Set reminders for alarm maintenance
• Safety education and comprehensive view of dangers to watch for in home

SITE INCLUDES
 Safe at Home Quiz
 Fire Facts
 Top Tips to Protect
Your Home
 Keeping Kids Safe
 Where to put Alarms
 Fire Safety Products
 Equipment
Installation and
Maintenance

Gary Darling
Regional Manager, Western Canada
Kidde Canada Inc.
(800)663-0703 (T) gary.darling@kiddecanada.com