Smoke alarm

marieky21 · 12-01-2020 6:54pm #1

I have an eclipse photoelectric type smoke alarm model SGD1236 the issue is that it goes off in the middle of night for no reason, I have also come home from work and it’s been going off for no reason no smoke no cooking, only heat on timer to come on. I have changed the battery still happening. It sets off all the other also. Even the heat one in the kitchen and garage. I know the one in the garage goes off with the dust when I was sweeping the floor it went off. Can’t find or understand why the one in the bedroom is going off any suggestions. It can go off twice a week then nothing for 8 weeks then it goes off again.

punisher5112 · 12-01-2020 6:55pm

Replace it. How old is it.

marieky21 · 12-01-2020 6:58pm

punisher5112 wrote: »

Replace it. How old is it.

It’s only 2 yrs old complete refrub of house done and they were newly fitted. I also have vacuumed the dust out of it still no joy,

punisher5112 · 12-01-2020 7:11pm

marieky21 wrote: »

It’s only 2 yrs old complete refrub of house done and they were newly fitted. I also have vacuumed the dust out of it still no joy,

Replace the faulty one.

marieky21 · 12-01-2020 7:27pm

It goes off then sometimes it stops after few mins, when it’s going off how do I know which one is the faulty one as they do be all going off. Constant red light..

marieky21 · 13-01-2020 7:14pm

Thank you for all your replies

Sheepdish1 · 13-01-2020 10:19pm

This happened to me recently and a tiny spider was in it

Stigura · 13-01-2020 11:33pm

^^^ That was my own first thought. But, they've hoovered it out? Most hoovers suck up spiders.

Dunno if OP had the hoover so throttled back, so's not to suck the guts out of the detector? Burst of fly spray, maybe? Lump hammer? (I couldn't live with a system that cried wolf)

fcukreg · 18-05-2024 10:05pm

The Eclipse SGD1236 smoke alarm is an Irish builders favourite(i.e. its the cheapest muck on the market). The fault you describe is a common fault with these units & usually occurs between 2-5 years service. Don't bother getting a new SGD1236…replace it with a quality unit like the Aico EI3016 (10yr rechargeable lithium battery & 5 year warranty).