[600MRG] Smoke alarm woes...

[John Langridge]

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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