My electrician says that I’m required by code to have line-powered smoke detectors. Hence, all the smoke detectors in my house have line voltage (120V), but there are no extra wires going there or conduit through which I could pull signal wires.
Is there any good solution to hook up smoke detectors to my IQ Panel 2 alarm system? My ideal product would be a line-powered smoke detector that also acts as a 319.5MHz sensor, or failing that maybe as a Z-wave device. However, it seems like all of the “smart” smoke alarms are battery powered. I suppose some kind of small AC adapter that can fit it the battery compartment of a battery-powered smoke detector might also do the trick.
Surely I must not be the first person to run into this problem. Does anyone have products to recommend? Thanks.
You are looking for the GE Firefighter. It is an audio detector that is mounted within 6 inches of one of your interconnected line power smoke detectors. If interconnected, when one detector sounds, all do. This trips the Firefighter unit and reports as a fire signal to the panel.
This can found through various online vendors. Look for the SLX-AD-T3