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Which type of sensors are equipped on the smoke detectors?Smoke detectors can have two types of sensors: ionization sensors, photoelectric sensors or both usually called dual sensors. The ionization sensor is used to sense flashing fires by detecting the small particles generated by these fast burning fires and triggering the alarm. The technology behind it involves using a radioactive isotope of americium usually, it’s Americium 241 to ionize the air inside a chamber and, if the sensor detects any changes in the air, it triggers the alarm. The disadvantage of using such type of detectors is that they are more prone to false alarms such as when you’re cooking or when there’s a large amount of steam. The photoelectric sensor is more sensitive to larger particles which are specific to slow burning, smouldering fires which could originate from a forgotten cigarette on the couch, but the sensor is not as sensitive to flaming fires. The way this type of detector works is that it uses a light source can be infrared, ultraviolet or visible which points away from the sensor, but, in the event of smoke entering the small chamber, the light particles will be scattered, therefore, some will hit the sensor and trigger the alarm.

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• Design is weather resistant. Protecting your outdoor cameras is not a worry since every camera is made with material that is weather resistant. • 8 channel DVR. This feature helps you to have a view on all eight different locations at the same time. • TruBlu blue DVR illumination. This feature helps you to have a better view of everything that is recorded on your security system. • 1TB SATA II hard drive. The hard drive works wonder because it is able to work on load of data at a time giving you the assurance that all the data going on is being recorded. • Selectable resolutions for recording. Depending on your preference you may change resolutions when you record. • Flexible recording settings.

 

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Turn the device around and you can see four narrow, but fairly long ventilation holes on the edges, four holes for ceiling mounting, a battery door and a micro USB connector in case the smoke detector needs servicing. This is available for the battery powered Nest Protect, but, of course, you can also purchase the wired variant, which will have additional AC connector pins on the back side to attach a 230V cable connector. The device itself is not really bigger than the average smoke detector from the market, measuring 1. 63 x 5. 28 inches and the install process follows the same steps: after choosing the rooms in which you’re going to install the Nest Protect at least in every room which has a fuel burning appliance, you need to make sure there is a minimum of 10 feet from any cooking appliance and avoid placing it on a corner you can choose either a wall or the ceiling. Then, you need to take the provided backplate and fix it to the wall/ceiling using the four screws and afterwards, just connect the smoke detector to the backplate using a circular motion if you have the wire powered version, the installing process also includes connecting the device to a power source, but, it’s ideal that this is done by a qualified person, to make sure the installation is made in accordance with the country or state’s regulations. The way to differentiate the first and the second generation of Nest Protect is by verifying if it has a battery door the Nest Protect 1 does not have one, verify the back plate the second generation has a round backplate, while the first has a square plate and the easiest one is to look at the edges of the device the second generation has rounded corners all around the case, while the first gen has straight edges. Right now, on the market, there are three types of smoke detectors: those that use ionization sensors, those that use photoelectric sensors and lastly, those that use both type of sensors also called dual sensor smoke alarms. The Nest Protect, theoretically, falls into the last category, but things are a bit more complicated because it doesn’t have a ionization sensor, but it does use the Split Spectrum Sensor which nullifies the need of the radioactive ionization sensor as you know, it detects smoke produced by flaming fires which burn at a fast rate so, if the ionized air is disrupted by smoke, it triggers the alarm. The photoelectric sensors is used to detect any smouldering fires that uses a light beam which, normally does not hit the sensor, but when smoke scatters the light particles, it will hit the sensor, therefore triggering the alarms – this method is used to detect a fire in its early stages, therefore reacting a lot faster. Now, the Split Spectrum Sensor should detect both the flaming fires and the smouldering ones, by adding a blue LED light at a wavelength of 450nm to look for small particles which are an indicator of a rapid, fast burning fire and keeping the usual photoelectric sensor to detect smouldering fires.