smoke sensor conclusion

[deanrparry 19]

mine have been perfect since battery operated... i am just about to hook up a BRAND NEW smoke sensor to 12v again... will report back!

[robmac 173]

Is it a constant current supply? Manual is very clear on this.

[deanrparry 19]

Is it a constant current supply? Manual is very clear on this.

manual? sorry this is a standard ce approved 12v 1a psu off ebay...

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[ Added: 2014-02-26, 20:25 ]

I now have one hooked up using same adapters as before the beepy ones

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[ Added: 2014-02-26, 20:26 ]

5 smoke sensors in total now...

3 x battery since yesterday

1 x 12v1a ebay special ***

1 x 20v2a asus netbook charger

The race is on! who beeps first my guess is ***

[robmac 173]

hmm take a nice well designed product like the Fibaro Smoke Detector and power it from a 10p chinese power supply

[deanrparry 19]

it was not 10p lol but i know what your saying... these are CE approved £5 a go units... so please give me some pointers? recommendations etc...

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^^^ they would be ok yes?

[A.Socha 133]

deanrparry, send that PSU to us we gonna check if we got that same problem with him if yes we will check why. Saying that with him sensor are beeping not helping us

[deanrparry 19]

i am covering my own back first by testing it 100% using 3 forms of power! once i can confirm it 100% then i send psu you have to appreciate this does not happen in 2 mins it can take half a day before it start to malfunction as you put it!

i will be in touch IF/WHEN it malfunctions again! then i'll send you the whole box of psu as a gift!

[robmac 173]

Is that CE as in Conformité Européenne like Fibaro

or

as in Chinese marking CE = Chinese Export. It looks similar but means something quite different. These cheap supplies apart from being one of the most common cause of EMF interference may cause you even more serious issue.

[ Added: 2014-03-02, 20:47 ]

Working well now. No issues since original post

[Marck 0]

I have the same problem. Connected the smoke sensor to a 12 v constant current power source, now on a irregular interval the smoke sensor beeps 4 to 6 times, led pulses red during these beeps. This hapens a dozen times a day. Switch back to battery, where the problem does not occur.

Tried to run a z-wave netwerk test, via pink menu, but this always fails. It pauzes at red light, returns to green pulses, then trough yellow, purple it stops pauzes at red again. The strange think is the z-wave connection to the controller seems fine. Inclusion, exclusion, works fine. Temp reports and smoke test alarms is received at the controller end just fine.

Performed also a malfunction test. No problem here, LED changes to green and beeps.

Still I would like to connect to the constant power source. Anyone that could help with this??

Power source is a Velleman, that can serve 10 watts.