Smoke alarms go off in my condo complex

Well, we had a bit of a false alarm last night. Listening to all the different pitches and cadences of these hardwired smoke detectors was fun for the first few minutes, but it quickly got annoying.

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The fire department ended up coming, and it took almost an hour to silence them. Fortunately, there was no fire. One of the detectors was putting out a low battery warning, and I wonder if that somehow triggered it.

So your condo doesn’t have actual alarms in it and just smoke alarms?

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So your condo doesn’t have actual alarms in it and just smoke alarms?

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Probably a smoke alarm/pull station system. I just serviced one in a renovated walkup building, they literally have combo smoke/strobe alarms everywhere, which are all interconnected together. Plus they had 2 pull stations on each exit, All controlled by a breaker on the electrical panel. It’s a really cheap fire alarm system, but also legal depending on the building and occupant size.

This is the first time I have heard of a system ANYWHERE having pull stations with just smoke alarms.

Sorry for the late response, guys. It’s just 120VAC interconnected smokes with backup batteries. The system is in the basement only - the condo units have standalone smoke alarms.

I’ve never seen a system with just smokes and pulls. Never knew they existed. How do the pulls trip the smoke alarms?

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I’ve never seen a system with just smokes and pulls. Never knew they existed. How do the pulls trip the smoke alarms?

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BRK makes a interconnect module, so you can connect devices like pull stations or heat detectors up: