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Review on ๐Ÿ”ฅ X-Sense 10-Year Battery Smoke Carbon Monoxide Alarm, Wireless Interconnected, Large Silence Button, 820ft Range, XP01-W, 3-Pack by James Thakur

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Without a voice, those detectors are a bad idea.

These smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors are networked so that an alarm sounds if one of them is triggered. However, unlike some of these detectors, they don't have a voice alarm component to let you know the location of the triggering event. Not only that, they don't have a voice to tell you if the triggering event is smoke or carbon monoxide. Instead, the blinking of an LED is the only indicator of smoke versus carbon monoxide, and you just need to remember which one. Blink patterns what does that mean. (You don't have to.) So if you have these detectors in your house and an alarm goes off, you can't tell if it's because of burnt food in the kitchen, carbon monoxide in the basement, or a fire in the attic. You just have to walk around the house and try to figure it out. Obviously this would be _less_ secure than offline alerts. At least then you will have an idea of where the triggering event is, depending on which direction the sound is coming from. There may be situations where these silent network detectors would be a good idea, but to be honest I can't think of any. one.

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