Kidde 0914 user manual

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For model: 0914
Smoke and Fire Alarm
User’s Guide
9 Volt Battery Operated Smoke Alarm
Thank you for purchasing this smoke and fire alarm. It is an
important part of your family’s home safety plan. You can trust
this product to provide the highest quality safety protection. We
know you expect nothing less when the lives of your family are
at stake.
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If you call our Consumer Hotline, these are the first questions
you will be asked.

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This product is designed to detect products of combustion using the ionization tech- • For mobile home installation, select locations carefully to avoid thermal barriers that nique. It contains 0.9 microcurie of Americium 241, a radioactive material. Distributed may form at the ceiling. For more details, see MOBILE HOME INSTALLATION under U.S. NRC License No. 32-23858-01E. Manufactured in compliance with U.S. below. NRC safety criteria in 10 CFR 32.27. The purchaser is exempt from any regu

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WARNING: TEST YOUR SMOKE ALARM OPERATION AFTER R.V. OR MOBILE Up for Wall HOME VEHICLE HAS BEEN IN STORAGE, BEFORE EACH TRIP AND AT LEAST Mounting. When wall ONCE A WEEK DURING USE. mounting, the “A” When mounting in a line should be hori- hallway, the “A” line zontal and the “UP should be parallel 2. LOCATIONS TO AVOID FOR WALL MOUNT- with the hallway. •In the garage. Products of combustion are present when you start your automobile. ING” arrow must be pointing up. • Less than 4” (10cm) from

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offer a broad range of fire sensing capabilities but are better at detecting fast flam- 6. MAINTENANCE ing fires than slow smoldering fires. Photoelectric alarms sense smoldering fires BATTERY REPLACEMENT better than flaming fires. Home fires develop in different ways and are often unpre- dictable. Neither type of alarm (photoelectric or ionization) is always best, To replace the battery, remove the alarm from the mounting plate by rotating the and a given alarm may not always provide warnin

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alternate exit. If the inside of the door is cool, place your shoulder against it, open 11. CAUTION (AS REQUIRED BY THE CALIFORNIA it slightly and be ready to slam it shut if heat and smoke rush in. STATE FIRE MARSHAL) •Stay close to the floor if the air is smoky. Breathe shallowly through a cloth, wet if “Early warning fire detection is best achieved by the installation of fire detection equipment possible. in all rooms and areas of the household as follows. A smoke alarm installed in each se

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THREE YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY KIDDE Safety warrants to the original purchaser that the enclosed smoke alarm (but not the battery) will be free from defects in material and workman- ship or design under normal use and service for a period of three years from the date of purchase. The obligation of KIDDE Safety under this warranty is limited to repairing or replacing the smoke alarm or any part which we find to be defective in material, workmanship or design, free of charge to the cus- tomer, upon