Batteries Included: 1
Batteries: 1
Binding: Tools & Hardware
Brand: Kidde
Color: White
EAN: 0025417120004
Feature: Two types of sensors offers best protection for all types of fire smoldering fires
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: Kidde
Manufacturer: Kidde
Model: PI2000
MPN: KIDPI2000
Publisher: Kidde
Studio: Kidde
Variation Description: White

• Two types of sensors offers best protection for all types of fire smoldering fires
• Ionization sensor protects best against fast flaming fires while the Photoelectric sensor protects best against slow smoldering fires
• Hush Feature temporarily silences nuisance alarms
• Battery backup two 9V batteries included
• UL Approved

DETECTS BOTH TYPES OF FIRES- BOTH FAST BURNING AND SLOW SMOLDERING HARDWIRE 120V AC SMOKE ALARM PROTECTS USERS FROM TWO DEADLY TYPES OF FIRES. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND STATE-OF-THE-ART SENSORS ALLOW THE ALARM TO DETECT BOTH FAST BURNING AND SLOW SMOLDERING FIRES.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Good unit Great Price
Comment: Replaced basic alarm with this Dual mode unit. It took about 5 min to install. Great price.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product, easy to install
Comment: I choose this unit because it was the only model that had both types of sensors and was made for hard wire applications. It installed easily without any problems. What else can I say except that I hope I never have a fire, but if I do, I hope this unit will perform as expected!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product
Comment: Product arrived in a timely manner and was as described. They were easily installed by electrician and appear to be working.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: No Date Issue here
Comment: I just purchased two of these IP2000 units direct from Amazon and the date code on both was August 2008, *within 60 days of my purchase. After doing alot of research, I found there are few units like this that offer dual sensors.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Smart protection for your home
Comment: For those concerned about previous mfr date issues with reviews, my units were manufactured within 45 days of my purchase date -- which is actually extremely reasonable. I'm guessing that wherever these are manufactured, they are taking a boat trip at least once before hitting a warehouse to wait for me to purchase.

I recently replaced my 10 year old BRK detectors around my entire house. I installed the Kidde PI2000 dual sensor detector in each beadroom and a Kidde KN-COSM-IB smoke and carbon dioxide detector in the hallways in the basement, first and second floor hallways.

I researched first alert, brk, and kidde, mostly because I could see them at my local big box hardware store. I chose Kidde becuase it had more features for the wired-in detectors than both first alert and brk. First alert appears to have focused their current lines on battery only units and wireless communications. Brk also had limited options in dual sensors or combo co2 detectors in a wired setting. Since neither first alert or brk could supply both a photo sensor/ion wired unit AND a dual CO2 and smoke wired detector that communicated together, I chose kidde detectors. I wanted them all to communicate and mixing and matching product vendors makes communications between the units impossible.

There are no pretty dual detectors that exist on the market. These are nice and boring and don't draw attention. They have a working hush button SEPARATE from the test button. That's a new feature that I appreciate. I haven't ripped one of these off the ceiling once yet to get them to stop their alarms.

I've never done a smoke or co2 test. I'll let the experts run those tests. My only tests are using the test button. But it works as identified and is loud. The voice alarms in the COSM unit is good for the hallways and will supplement the normal alarm well. Children are reported to respond faster to "Fire!, Fire!". I've been know to sleep through my daughter's baby monitor on one of her bad nights... There's no way I'm not going to hear both the voice and the piercing alarms

DIY info:

Since I was replacing an existing AC wired solution, I wanted to continue to have the security of both AC power and battery backup. The best feature by far of this wired in solution is that all detectors are wired to communicate together. If my basement CO2 detector goes off, then the other two CO2 detectors also sound with an alarm and a voice indicator. When any of the smoke detectors trip, all detectors sound, and the hallway units voice alert "Fire!, Fire!". This connection between detectors will ensure that I know in the middle of the night if I have a fire in the basement... My house is well soundproofed between floors.

In replacing the existing brk wired in units with the Kidde detectors, I had to remove the existing collars and wired in "tails" since the existing ones were not compatible with the Kiddes. You can buy an adapter to convert from the BRK style of tail to the Kidde, but I considered that a waste of money. In my house, all of the smoke detectors are on the same electrical circuit and rewiring the tails and installing the detectors was a matter of ensuring the circuit was off, removeing 3 wire nuts, removing the existing tail, then twisting the new tail into the existing leads and putting the wire nuts back on. less than 3 minutes of work.

THe collar was easy to replace. A cordless screwdriver to loosen (not remove) the 2 J-box screws, twist and pull the brk collar off, add the Kidde collar, then tighten the screws.

All in all less than 5 minutes per detector... replaceing 7 detectors took less than an hour of work and I made sure to test each one for communications with the other units.

For the single detector that I have close to the peak of a cathedral ceiling I replaced the nice alkaline 9v that shipped with the PI2000 with an Ultralife Lithium 9v... they are made specifically for smoke detectors and are claimed to at least double the lifespan of a alkaline up to 10 years.... I'll let you know in ten years if its true. In any case I don't expect to have to change that high detector's battery for years now.

Remember that smoke detectors have to be replaced every 10 years.. units that detect CO2 will have to be replaced after 5yrs... its a chemical based sensor.

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