Hello,
I just bought some new smokes and installed one yesterday. It was added successfully, but now is causing the panel to chirp every 10 seconds and show fire. Any ideas on how to fix this??
Thanks
Is this this sensor labeled Garage Smoke (zone 40)?
Is it triggering an actual fire alarm at the panel? I am showing this sensor intermittently reporting a tamper. This indicates the sensor’s tamper switch is being triggered. Usually this is caused when the sensor is not mounted on the mounting plate correctly.
The unit should have an LED lit up on it, what color is the LED, is it flashing, and how many seconds between flashes? This can indicate a variety of issues. A key for the LED states can be found in the manual here:
Yes.
No the triggers were done by me after the unit showed FIRE.
I took off a few times.
The color on the unit is green.
The panel was chirping.
Sorry about the multiple posts.
The panel never was never audibly triggered. It was just chirping every 10 seconds and the sensor list on the panel showed the sensor was triggered.
If it is blinking green, how many seconds are there in-between each blink?
Based of your trouble history on alarm.com, it looks like the chirping is caused from the smoke tampers. Even after removing and mounting back, are this still having the panel tamper?
Around 5 second in between.
The chirping happened before I tampered the unit by removing the back plate.
Below is the trouble chart for the IQ Smoke detector. Do any of these match what you are experiencing? Looks like a green blinking light only applied when it is normal and should be about every 12 seconds.
From the history, I can only see several smoked enter tamper trouble. Game area smoke keeps going into tamper. If the head of the smoke is sitting correctly on the base and it is still entering tamper, it may be something with the smoke itself.
- Game Area Smoke (ID = 12) Sensor Tamper From 10/27/2025 9:32:15 pm to 10/27/2025 9:32:24 pm
- Garage Smoke 2 (ID = 2) Sensor Tamper From 10/27/2025 7:27:13 am to 10/27/2025 7:27:18 am
- 3rd Floor Bedroom Smoke (ID = 36) Sensor Tamper From 10/26/2025 9:01:05 pm to 10/26/2025 9:01:17 pm
- Game Area Smoke (ID = 12) Sensor Tamper From 10/25/2025 8:58:55 pm to 10/25/2025 8:59:04 pm
