Renovating a house at the moment, and have got to the smoke detectors. Their ceiling sockets are all over the place, but only half of them have detectors, and as far as I can tell, none of them work. They’re the kind which take a power supply from wiring in the ceiling, rather than just batteries.
What I’d like to know is are the wires to these things mains (little socket pictured below)? If so, they’re dead… do they go back to a fuse in the main fusebox, and have their own dedicated fuse there, or on a light circuit or something?
If it’s all a real mess, or electrically difficult, I’ll just take the sockets down and put ordinary battery detectors up, but I’d prefer to do it right using the existing wiring if possible. If that were possible, do these look like a current design to you, so maybe I can buy similar ones which will simply plug into the existing ceiling wiring?
Thanks
What I’d like to know is are the wires to these things mains (little socket pictured below)? If so, they’re dead… do they go back to a fuse in the main fusebox, and have their own dedicated fuse there, or on a light circuit or something?
If it’s all a real mess, or electrically difficult, I’ll just take the sockets down and put ordinary battery detectors up, but I’d prefer to do it right using the existing wiring if possible. If that were possible, do these look like a current design to you, so maybe I can buy similar ones which will simply plug into the existing ceiling wiring?
Thanks