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Replacing Hard Wired Smoke Alarm 

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Despite wanting to work on my vehicles I am left working on the house that I recently moved into. Getting rid of this nasty old smoke detector was a good way to spend an hour on a Saturday morning.
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**Always check local building codes to determine if you can change detectors yourself where you live, never work on a hard wired detector without turning all power to it off. Carefully follow directions for the detector you purchase**

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@Lando-hd9zy
@Lando-hd9zy Год назад
I replaced my old alarm and it looks like that one and I got one the same as the old one
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth Год назад
As long as they are replaced before their expiry date all is well. There is really no telling how well they will work after that point.
@Fish9q
@Fish9q 6 месяцев назад
Ohh thanks
@amazingsupergirl7125
@amazingsupergirl7125 Год назад
Ah the 1700s. Great century.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth Год назад
Most indubitably.
@RJARRRPCGP
@RJARRRPCGP 2 года назад
Looks like a late-1980s FireX. I wonder if that's actually the same thing under a different brand. (Fun fact: Badge-engineering, is also something I see in the alarm industry) I saw these installed in only bedrooms and they were linked solely to other bedrooms, to make all the bedroom ones sound. The FireXs were AC buzzers. While outside most of the bedrooms, was a central system consisting of an FCi FC-72 panel with Wheelock 7002T horn/strobes. The smoke detectors connected to the FCi FC-72 panel, were Pyrotector brand.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 года назад
i think the first commenter on the video mentioned something about that. perhaps a norton rebrand of a firex alarm with a piezo horn? I don't know though
@ethand5221
@ethand5221 2 года назад
You shouldve replaced that alarm every 10 years, you maybe should've replaced it in the 90s.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 года назад
I just moved in...hence the moving boxes in the halls.
@elevatorswithESH
@elevatorswithESH 6 месяцев назад
I never thought about using a voltage detector to check to see if you turned off the correct breaker. Now that I think about it I’m going to need one to help me and my aunt find out if we turned off to the correct breaker because I am going to remove a FireX smoke alarm from her water heater room and we don’t know which breaker it is so the voltage detector will come in handy. What’s the model for that voltage detector you have?
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 6 месяцев назад
Yeah I've gotten a ton of use out of these things, especially this one that tells you if the circuit is wired properly and has a ground fault tester. The link is in the description of the video.
@legendarygodzilla3577
@legendarygodzilla3577 2 месяца назад
My house still has our old ones up. We never removed them because they still work just fine. I might try getting my dad to install some new photoelectric ones nearby. Currently they are avout as old as the house at about 20 years. Despite their age they still were able to detect fires. We had a cooking fire once before because my dad got the oil too hot. then my mom put insence in a candle jar and it fell out and caught pillows on fire. For as old as they are, they still worked as intended.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 месяца назад
They might work forever, but I'm sure that the company that made them would no longer guarantee that they work. If they fail to work you also couldn't sue the company. That might be the bigger incentive to put an expiration date on them. So the company is no longer liable for failure to detect.
@legendarygodzilla3577
@legendarygodzilla3577 2 месяца назад
@@DIYNorth edit: they are actually closer to 30 years since the house was built in 89, regardless, it is impressive that they lasted 3x the "expiration date". Though I did recently talk to my family about installing new photoelectric ones, we are keeping our Firex FX1020s up as long as they work.
@juggalogamer8541
@juggalogamer8541 2 года назад
Literally my grandparents have one of these in their old house and it literally would go off once-in-a-blue-moon and do some really loud ringing Sound it was very annoying
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 года назад
LOL...was the house on fire tho.
@AllL.A.Everyday
@AllL.A.Everyday 4 месяца назад
At my house I had mine for 34 years and it still works
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 4 месяца назад
That is a pretty impressive life span
@AllL.A.Everyday
@AllL.A.Everyday 4 месяца назад
@@DIYNorth question
@oscar_jjuarez5266
@oscar_jjuarez5266 Год назад
Mine had “ contains radioactive material “ written on the back
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth Год назад
don't break it open
@Airbus_A.320
@Airbus_A.320 Год назад
It’s not fine with the battery out. It will chirp until you put it back in. It is mandatory to have a battery in your smoke alarm due to power outages or a possible cut of power to the smoke alarm. That way you can still run off the battery and save your life
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth Год назад
I'm not sure that I implied that you should run a hard wired detector without a battery.
@Alaby
@Alaby 2 года назад
My old smoke detector is exactly like your old one! This is the best reference for what I needed, thank so much for the video :)!
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 года назад
thanks for watching
@Lando-hd9zy
@Lando-hd9zy Год назад
Same
@LittleMissCuki
@LittleMissCuki 3 года назад
Thank you!!!! Mine is old like this not those clip on onces so ive been trying to fine a vido like yours thank you thank you thank you
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 3 года назад
thanks for watching.
@joannestealey4482
@joannestealey4482 10 месяцев назад
Yeah I agree that alarm has to go it's very gross
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 10 месяцев назад
To be fair the whole house was pretty gross. The alarm wasnt the worst.
@joannestealey4482
@joannestealey4482 10 месяцев назад
@@DIYNorth how?
@heidismith6148
@heidismith6148 2 года назад
Mine is also over 30 years old, question, the old base is small, will newer ones fit so I don't have to make new screw holes?
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 2 года назад
They might, but I doubt a new detector will slot into an old base. None of mine did. The new bases generally have a few hole patterns in them so you might be able to get on that fits with the holes already in your ceiling. You can always use one of the holes, but you might need to drill one new hole. All of the hole will be concealed under the base plate though.
@VintageSmokeAlarmsMediaRandom
Man I would've loved to have that alarm I'm my collection
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth Год назад
sorry, I didn't save it. I was unaware people collected old alarms.
@VintageSmokeAlarmsMediaRandom
Yea smoke alarm collecting isn't a real big thing most people will never no about smoke alarm collecting
@VintageSmokeAlarmsMediaRandom
I just saw a video on one of those I believe it's a Nortron unit from the early 90s
@tenderpawsm473
@tenderpawsm473 3 года назад
They're saying now that the standard ionization alarms provide only marginal protection in actual fires. Since I'm not handy, I left my old ionization smoke/ carbon monoxide detectors in place and added two photoelectric detectors.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 3 года назад
interesting. I'll have to do some reading on the subject.
@tenderpawsm473
@tenderpawsm473 3 года назад
@@DIYNorth Ionization alarms (most smoke detectors in homes) are very good at reacting to fast flaming fires, but they're much less effective at slow, smoldering fires. Photoelectric detectors react more quickly to smoky fires, but are somewhat slower to respond to fast, flaming fires.
@TheCarson116
@TheCarson116 3 года назад
Take my advice: uninstall all 3 alarms plus any single-sensor ones around your home & replace all of them with dual-sensor alarms like First Alert/BRK's SA350/3120B or Kidde's PI2010/PI9010. (optional: send all the old alarms to a collector like me, so they don't go to waste)
@aidancprailrailwaystuffeng4612
@aidancprailrailwaystuffeng4612 3 года назад
Did u keep the old alarm or did u throw it out
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 3 года назад
I didnt keep it
@seaniedan
@seaniedan 3 года назад
"...it has to go" ...where? Please don't put the contents, including RADIOACTIVE Americium in the trash! Take it to a centre which disposes of electronic waste.
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 3 года назад
It was disposed of in accordance with the recommendations of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
@theshedproductions.
@theshedproductions. 3 года назад
have you already trashed the alarm? if you haven't sell it online !
@DIYNorth
@DIYNorth 3 года назад
Sadly I was unaware smoke detectors were a collectable item until exactly 32 minutes ago. My bad...it's gone.
@kristenakrist1984
@kristenakrist1984 3 года назад
Isn’t that a firex brand
@theshedproductions.
@theshedproductions. 3 года назад
@@kristenakrist1984 no that would be a firex rebrand meaning that norton took firexs alarm and put a different name on it. in this case they took the ac horn out of it and put a piezo horn
@kristenakrist1984
@kristenakrist1984 3 года назад
@@theshedproductions. ah okay
@eworman42
@eworman42 8 месяцев назад
The heck, people actually buy these old alarms?! Apparently I shouldn't ever throw *anything* out, this is like the third time in a year I've learned I tossed money away 😂
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