Smoke Alarms Not Waking Kids Up (Which smoke alarms will wake a child?)

[Dan]

Smoke Alarms Not Waking Kids Up (Which smoke alarms will wake a child??)

It seems that many high pitch smoke alarms wont wake up kids.

#WakeUpCall

They're trying out smoke alarms that use a human voice with a low pitch.

It's on WatchDog right now.

So does anybody have any experience with this?

Which smoke alarms will wake up kids?

520 hertz seems to be the standard which is a lower frequency. Low frequency sounders seem to be better than others.

 

[Andy78]

I have teenagers. No pitch, volume, or frequency is gonna rouse those. I just hope we don't have a fire on a Saturday morning, as those seem especially troublesome.

 

[Megawatt]

Smoke Alarms Not Waking Kids Up (Which smoke alarms will wake a child??)

It seems that many high pitch smoke alarms wont wake up kids.

#WakeUpCall

They're trying out smoke alarms that use a human voice with a low pitch.

It's on WatchDog right now.

So does anybody have any experience with this?

Which smoke alarms will wake up kids?

520 hertz seems to be the standard which is a lower frequency. Low frequency sounders seem to be better than others.

All I can add to this question is in the USA the requirements are smoke alarms in every bedroom and the hallway to the bedrooms and have to be hardwired with battery backup and interconnected that when one alarm goes off they all go off, and in the kitchen

 

[Deleted member 105166]

Which smoke alarms will wake up kids?

One that emulates the sound a mobile phone makes when they get a new antisocial media message?

 

[littlespark]

The kids they were referring to in the programme were infants. But I for one wouldn’t want my kids jumping out of bed in a panic before I do.

 

[ipf]

I have teenagers. No pitch, volume, or frequency is gonna rouse those. I just hope we don't have a fire on a Saturday morning, as those seem especially troublesome.

Could try a bucket of cold water contraption...….when the string burns through ??

 

[littlespark]

The point they make on the programme was that there was no instruction to make users aware that young children may not hear the alarm, not that there should be different alarms for adults and children.
Now its been on Watchdog, we are now all aware.

Same programme, Those tree cutters need locked up for what they were doing.... poking around in the kitchen cupboards when the other one was conning the old dear for all she had....

 

[plugsandsparks]

Klaxon MASTER BLASTER with 12v DC Relay SLM-0001

The Klaxon Master Blaster is a powerful motor driven siren designed for use as an internal/external supplementary security sounder.

www.alertelectrical.com

That will wake the dead !!

 

[James]

I have the nest smoke alarms and they are great. Voice alert then loud sounder.

 

[Andy78]

Could try a bucket of cold water contraption...….when the string burns through ??

The irony of a heath robinson device with a naked flame to replace the effects of a smoke alarm is not lost on me ?