User's Manual

GENERAL MAINTENANCE
CLEANING YOUR NEST PROTECT
Use a damp cloth to clean your Nest Protect. Don’t
clean it with detergents or solvents (like Windex
®
)
and do not spray air fresheners, hair spray or other
aerosols near it. These chemicals will damage your
smoke alarm and make it non-operational. Do not
disassemble your Nest Protect or clean inside. If a
continuous alarm occurs, return for servicing. Do
not get water inside the alarm. Do not paint over
Nest Protect, as paint will seal the vents and affect
its ability to detect smoke and CO.
RESETTING YOUR NEST PROTECT
If you’re selling your home and leaving your Nest
Protect behind, you can reset it to erase all your
settings. Resetting will also reset the wireless
interconnection between multiple Nest Protects.
1. Remove Nest Protect from the wall or ceiling
by twisting it counter-clockwise. It will click
and come off.
2. Climb down from your step-stool or ladder.
You’ll need both hands to perform the reset.
3. Using a pen or paper clip, push and hold
the ERASE ALL SETTINGS button on the
back of Nest Protect.
4. While you’re holding the ERASE ALL
SETTINGS button, push and hold the Nest
button on the front of Nest Protect.
5. Now you can release the ERASE ALL
SETTINGS button.
6. Release the Nest button.
7. Nest Protect will tell you it’s erasing all
settings. After a few seconds it will restart.
8. Place Nest Protect back on the wall/ceiling for
the next resident.
After resetting Nest Protect, it will still detect
smoke and carbon monoxide.
Test procedure
• Press the Nest button.
• Nest Protect will say: “Ready. Press to test”.
• Press the Nest button again.
• Nest Protect will say: “This is only a test. The
alarm may sound. The alarm is loud.
The test starts in ten seconds.
Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two.
One. I’m starting the test.”
• You will see: Nest Protect will ash its lights in
several colors.
• Once the Nest Protect test is nished in the
room, Nest Protect will tell you everything’s okay.
If they are interconnected, every Nest Protect will
speak up in the house. Walk to each one to make
sure you hear them.
WARNING
• If the alarm ever fails to test correctly,
have it replaced immediately! If the alarm
is not working properly, it cannot alert you
to a problem.
• DO NOT use a match, cigarette or any other
makeshift fire to test the smoke alarm.
• To test the CO alarm, NEVER use vehicle
exhaust! Exhaust may cause permanent
damage and voids your warranty.
• NEVER use an open ame of any kind to
test this alarm. You might accidentally
damage or set fire to the unit or to your
home. The built-in self test accurately
tests the unit’s operation as required by
Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL).
TESTING NEST PROTECT
SELF-MONITORING
Nest Protect continuously tests itself to ensure
that everything is working fine, so you don’t have
to wonder if it is working or not. Nest Protect will
check its battery and sensors and will let you
know if it has a message for you.
When you turn out the lights for the night, Nest
Protect will glow green for a moment - that
means everything is working. If it glows yellow,
this means Nest Protect has detected something
wrong that needs your attention. Just wave at it
or push the Nest button to hear its warning: either
the batteries are low, Wi-Fi has been down or
there is an issue with its sensors.
TEST NEST PROTECT MANUALLY
The Nest button has two purposes. It hushes
Heads-Up and emergency alarms and allows you
to test Nest Protect’s sensors and batteries.
It is required by regulation to perform a weekly
manual testing.
After installation, test Nest Protect by pressing
the Nest button twice. Before sounding the alarm,
Nest Protect will give you a countdown so that you
have time to move away from the alarm.
WARNING
DO NOT stand close to the alarm when
the horn is sounding. Exposure at close
range may be harmful to your hearing.
When testing, step away when horn
starts sounding.
BATTERY TYPE
6 AA Energizer
®
Ultimate Lithium batteries (L91)
These batteries can be purchased at your local
retailer or visit nest.com
Six months prior replacing the batteries, Nest
Protect will give you a Heads-Up that the
batteries are getting low. Nest Protect will light
up yellow and once you wave at it, it will say “Nest
Protect Battery is low. Replace it soon.”
WARNING
Use only batteries specified by Nest. Use
of a different battery model will have a
detrimental effect on the smoke alarm
operation. The alarm may not operate
properly with other batteries. Never use
rechargeable batteries since they may
not provide a constant charge.
Never remove the batteries from a battery-
operated alarm to stop an unwanted alarm
(caused by cooking smoke, etc.). Removing
batteries disables the alarm so it cannot
sense smoke, and removes your protection.
Instead open a window or fan the smoke
away from the unit.
The alarm will not operate without battery
power. The alarm cannot work until you
install the batteries in the correct position
(Match “+” to “+” and “-” to “-”).
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