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3.1 Testing your Alarm
Frequent testing of all your Alarms is a requirement to ensure they are functioning correctly.
Guidelines and best practices for testing are as follows:
1. After the system is installed.
2. Once monthly thereafter.
3. After prolonged absence from the dwelling (e.g. after holiday period).
How to perform the Test:
(i) Press and hold the Test button for 10 seconds on each Alarm to ensure it sounds and the red LED
flashes. (The red LED will flash at a rate of 1 flash every 0.5 seconds. If the red LED flashes at a
different rate or the yellow LED flashes, a fault may exist. Please consult the indicator summary
table).
(ii) If the Alarms are interconnected using RF modules, hold down the Test button until the blue LED
on the cover of the Alarm illuminates. Check that all other Alarms sound.
(iii) Release the Test button. The Alarm and all interconnected Alarms should stop sounding and the
red LED will stop flashing on the Alarm the Test button was held down.
(iv) Repeat this procedure for all other Alarms in the system.
DO NOT TEST WITH FLAME
This can set fire to the Alarm and damage the dwelling. We do not recommend testing the Alarm with
heat and/or smoke as the results can be misleading unless effective apparatus is used.
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