@gray… what voltage are they running on? It’s it normal house lines or is there a transformer between them?
(Purely off topic… but I do wonder if the homes of tomorrow might not have dual voltage power lines standard. As more and more low voltage things start becoming the norm, might we see 110 and 5 volt lines in new construction? I think it would make some sense.)
@chrisb: It’s normal house voltage. They seem to be pretty standard since they’re required by the national code.
I looked this up, and where I live (in MD) they actually recently started a move to require everyone to have either AC alarms, or a kind that comes with a ten-year battery sealed in. The idea is that with a standard battery-operated alarm, it’s far too easy to remove the battery when it’s going off at 3 AM, then forget about it.
My set-up is the same as @gray . My house was built in 1948 but when we had the whole house re-wired (the knob and tube wiring was pretty scary) we also had a line-voltage, interconnected smoke alarm and CO2 system put in. As I have posted elsewhere, I have already hooked up this existing system with a Kidde relay and Schlage door sensor (works really well). I would like to add one of these z-wave devices to my detached garage since it is not part of the house smoke alarm system. it is essentailly a concrete bunker built into the side of the hill, so I am not worried about the structure but would like to know if the contents catch fire.
My ideal z-wave smoke alarm would be line voltage but also include all the functions of the Aeon Multisensor (motion, temp,light, humidity). i would get room by room data and could use my existing electrical wiring to not have to worry about seperate battery operated devices.
So is this zwave and is it compatible with ST’s? I’m in Canada
So is this zwave and is it compatible with ST’s? I’m in Canada
http://www.aartech.ca/sco500a-onelink-combination-smoke-and-co-detector.html
David, no, that one is not Z-Wave. FirstAlert makes many different smoke alarms. That one uses a simple RF signal to make all the alarms go off at once; it’s not something we can receive.
The model numbers to look for are ZSMOKE and ZCOMBO. I believe they’re currently exclusively sold at Lowe’s and (soon?) Staples.
Hm, can’t seem to find those model numbers anywhere in canada. Even Lowes.ca