Thread: Do healthy smoke detectors ever false alarm?
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Old 07-09-09, 11:24 AM
spdavid spdavid is offline
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If the alarm is as new as 3 and especially beyond 5 years old it is not healthy and should be replaced.The sensors do go bad and will malfunction.Once it starts it can't be fixed in most cases though a few have replaceable sensors.
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