Replacement for Kid 1275

Hello All,

First post and I know nothing about fire/smoke alarms.

I was looking to replace some batteries in my wired smoke alarms. My alarms have a date of June 2006 on them. I think alarms have a life of 10 years and these need to be replaced.

I have about 12 alarms to replace and I would really like to use the same brackets and wiring if possible. I see that Kidde recommend the i2040 but I would like something with a from change battery rather than having to take all the alarms down. Any recommendations please?

Right on the money: those are way overdue for replacement to say the least (though I’d imagine that a lot of detectors are).

As I just found out another smoke detector manufacturer named “BRK” just introduced the “SM300-AC”: it’s dual-sensor (ionization & photoelectric for the best chances of detecting any kind of fire that might happen) & has an outside-accessible battery drawer (thus no need to remove the detector from the ceiling to change the batteries), though you’d have to replace every detector with this one since BRK & Kidde detectors are incompatible (Kidde doesn’t seem to sell dual-sensor or photoelectric-only detectors with outside-accessible batteries & BRK/First Alert detectors are generally seen as better quality anyway though).

By the way, don’t throw those 1275s away: give them to a collector for preservation (most people may not consider them valuable to save but to some of us they are).