11. Troubleshooting
Alarms sound for no apparent reason
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may cause them to alarm.
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can cause nuisance alarms.
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described in Section 5 if necessary.
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be identified as the Alarm with the red light flashing rapidly) – this will silence the
Smoke Alarm for 10 minutes (and also silence all other interconnected Alarms in
the system).
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hours - this indicates that there is a depleted battery somewhere in the system -
check all Alarms as outlined in section 5 “Power Supply Monitoring”.
The Alarm fails to sound when the Test button is pressed
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