User Manual

• The horn in your detector meets or exceeds current audibility

requirements of Underwriters Laboratories. However, if the detec-

tor is located outside a bedroom, it may not wake a sound sleeper,

especially if the bedroom door is closed or only partly open. If the

detector is located on a different level of the residence than the

bedrooms, it is even less likely to wake up people sleeping in the

bedrooms.

• All types of smoke detectors have limitations. No type of smoke

detector can sense every kind of ﬁ re every time. In general, detec-

tors may not always warn you about ﬁ red caused by carelessness

and safety hazards like smoking in bed, violent explosions, escaping

gas, improper storage of ﬂ ammable materials, overloaded electrical

circuits, children playing with matches or arson.

• Installing smoke detectors may make you eligible for lower insur-

ance rates, but smoke detectors are not a substitute for insurance.

Homeowners and renters should continue to insure their lives and

property.