Replacement Smoke Alarms
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Indeed. That's one ofthe great things about Aico. One can buy one today and when it's due for replacement in 10 years' time, it will almost certainly just be a matter of 'clipping in a new one'.
It's refreshing to see this, given how common it seems to be for products (of any sort) to have 'built-in
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I misinterpreted your OP - apologies. When you said that you wanted to avoid "the hard-wired option", I thought you were talking about just the inter-connection, rather than that you didn't want any 'wiring' at all (i.e. you didn't want mains-powered ones).
If that's the case (i.e. you want a 'standalone' battery-powered one, then I would personally say that the Aico Ei 650 FR would, indeed, be a very good way to go.
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I think you meant to say "obsolescence"?Indeed. That's one ofthe great things about Aico. One can buy one today and when it's due for replacement in 10 years' time, it will almost certainly just be a matter of 'clipping in a new one'.
It's refreshing to see this, given how common it seems to be for products (of any sort) to have 'built-in adolescence' (which has obvious commercial advantages for those for manufacture and sell them!). Whether Aico are 'decent and public-spirited' or 'commercially naive', I don't know
Indeed I didI think you meant to say "obsolescence"?
I find it very hard to believe that I would have typed "adolescence", so I wonder if some sort of wretched 'predictive text' may have found a way of getting involved? ! Anyway, now corrected - thanks for alerting me!¬
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It's me who is looking for new smokes. The old ones are overdue for replacement, so I'm looking for new ones.
Wondered what people are fitting these days. I'd like to interlink, but don't fancy scrabbling about in the loft running cable.
That's why I'm looking at the Aico RF ones. They are a bit dear, but they've always been a decent brand and you're going to pay for the convenience of not hardwiring.
What do you fit?
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Whatever the wholesalers keep, usually Aico, I've never wirelessly linked them though.
Not sure how the transmitter fits in does it need a different base or can the standard ones be used?
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Don't know. I think the one I'm thinking of buying is a complete RF unit, but I believe you can get a tx to convert certain existing units to RF ones.
Best talk to your wholesaler.
Best talk to your wholesaler.
Yes it does. Aico does RF for each series afaik, and you can mix and match. However in order to link the hardwired interlinked ones with RF ones, you need to swap the base on one of the hardwired ones (for the signal) and then for all the other RF once you need the RF base in addition to the actual RF alarm.
Yes - its reliable
Our son is buying his first place and the smoke alarms aren't interlinked and are out of date. Aico RF units WILL be fitted
Aico updated the RF module quite a while ago and it now fits into a recess in the alarm base - so no need to swap bases anymore
Fireangle do a system where the RF module just plugs into the base of the detector, they also do a combined panic, test and silence switch.
They were brilliant for a 4 storey stairwell in a grade 2 building,.as the battery backup for the Rf is user swappleable.
see https://www.safefiredirect.co.uk/sm...-alarm-systems/fireangel-smart-rf-system.aspx
but cheaper from a direct source.
They were brilliant for a 4 storey stairwell in a grade 2 building,.as the battery backup for the Rf is user swappleable.
see https://www.safefiredirect.co.uk/sm...-alarm-systems/fireangel-smart-rf-system.aspx
but cheaper from a direct source.
As I understand it, much the same (both points) is now available from Aico.
Do the wireless ones not also have the ability to have hard-wired interconnection? If they did, there would not be a need to change the base of a hardwired one.
broadly but the aico unit has a base and the fireangle has a plug in module and tbh have not seen if the battery back up for the aico wifi is user swappable as is the fireangle
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