[Lowfer] [600MRG] Smoke alarm woes...

[Neil Klagge]

Hi John. The units are hard wired and powered by red, black and white
wires, and interconnected so that any one will trigger all the others to
sound.

How do you do the "decoupling" that you mentioned?

Thanks for your help, as always :-)
Neil

w0yse, wg2xsv,now in Vancouver WA
CN85rq

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:54 PM, John Langridge <jlangridge at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Neil,
>
> Don't despair...I have heard of guys decoupling the power on the smoke
> alarms that were hard wired to the house and getting acceptable results.
> Can you describe what you actually have?  are these basically smoke alarms
> that are tied into the mains for power or something else?  It might be as
> simple as replacing the hard wired units with battery powered models.  If
> you current system is one of those monitored systems, you might have to
> decide how important that service is to you.  will battery powered units
> suffice?
>
>
> so what exactly are you using?
>
> I bet there is a solution that allows you to operate at the power you want.
>
>
> 73!
>
> John XIQ
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Neil Klagge <w0yse.7 at gmail.com>
> To: 600mrg at w7ekb.com
> Cc: lowfer group <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:17 PM
> Subject: [600MRG] Smoke alarm woes...
>
>
> I am bummed. This morning I put my amplifier on 630m at the 50 watt level.
> The smoke/fire alarm was triggered in the new house immediately. So, for
> the time being, I am stuck at 15 watts into the coax and ~20mW ERP.
>
> Read some similar woes on eham.net and not too encouraged about finding an
> acceptable solution at this time.
>
> Have any of you had a similar experience that you were able to solve??
>
> Bummed in Vancouver WA
> Neil
>
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