 Joined: 02/08/2014(UTC) Posts: 786 Location: NEW JERSEY, USA
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Do smoke alarms go off from soldering smoke? I'm doing wiring when the rest of the house is asleep and I don't want to cause an unwelcome fire drill. Mikey  |
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 Joined: 15/03/2003(UTC) Posts: 9,597 Location: Australia
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IT has never happened to me.. I think that they need a fair volume of the right smoke to set them off.. Burnt toast does it, but sulphur fumes don't seem to affect my units.. |
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Joined: 14/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 800 Location: Newcastle NSW Australia
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Don't solder directly under the smoke detector & maybe set a room fan up to move air around in the room, don't direct at the soldering area just something to gently provide a little air movement .
Cheers Tom in Oz
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Joined: 20/07/2007(UTC) Posts: 809 Location: Leopold, Victoria
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It depends on whether they are photoelectric or ionization.
Ionization you should be right, since a quarter of your house is on fire before they go off.
Photoelectric just a sniff of smoke and they go off. |
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 Joined: 15/09/2014(UTC) Posts: 684 Location: London
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Perhaps do a test when everyone is awake.  Carim
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Joined: 26/03/2006(UTC) Posts: 1,423 Location: Brisbane, QLD
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Originally Posted by: Tom Jessop 
Don't solder directly under the smoke detector & maybe set a room fan up to move air around in the room, don't direct at the soldering area just something to gently provide a little air movement .
Cheers Tom in Oz
A fan is always a good idea when soldering - the fumes aren't very good for you! |
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Joined: 20/07/2007(UTC) Posts: 809 Location: Leopold, Victoria
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You can check your smoke detector by looking on the top of the unit, if it has a radioactive symbol it's ionization. Edited by user 04 October 2016 08:21:07(UTC)
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Joined: 15/10/2006(UTC) Posts: 2,319 Location: Washington, Pacific Northwest
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Originally Posted by: analogmike Do smoke alarms go off from soldering smoke? I'm doing wiring when the rest of the house is asleep and I don't want to cause an unwelcome fire drill. Mikey It should not. If you are generating that level of smoke then your not soldering correctly. I'm assuming your soldering wiring for trains, and not tin/copper tubes for rain gutters, or copper pipe for some complex device. The small amount of smoke that is the burning off of flux should not set of the smoke detector, though with some sensitive ones, if your directly below the detector, who knows. |
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