Kidde KN-COPE-IC

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20161009-96A0F-2147412191. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kidde KN-COPE-IC (Kidde Combination Photoelectric Smoke/CO Alarm Model KN-COPE-IC). Incident: This model of smoke and CO detector was installed in two different homes, and both have had problems that make me believe they are malfunctioning and cannot be trusted as life safety devices. One of these units malfunctioned around April 2016, causing the green AC power indicator turned off, even though AC power was connected. The unit had to be reset by removing it from AC power and battery power, and when reconnected it seemed to function again. Later, on 10/8/2016, it had a false fire alarm when no fire or smoke was present. It failed to activate the other hardwired alarm connected to it, and failed to silence itself when the hush button was pressed. When the button was pressed, it seemed to put the alarm into test mode instead, which activated the other hardwired alarm. The alarm could only be stopped by removing AC power and battery power. These two incidents happened at my home. The second malfunctioning unit is located at a different residence, has had two false alarms in about 9 months. No smoke or carbon monoxide was believed to be present at the time of the alarms.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20240124-D0EA7-2147341507. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kidde kn-cope-ic (Home smoke C/O alarm goes off on high C/O on a 30 second loss of 120 volts with a good battery backup in it.). Incident: Smoke/CO alarm with a good battery backup indicates high C/O on a momentary loss of power My wife, home alone and sleeping woke up to the alarm screaming high C/O at 1:15 am. Not just beeping but actually saying high C/O. In a panic trying to find out the problem and round up the pets she hears the whole house generator running. Not knowing the whole neighborhood is without electric. It takes less than 30 seconds from loss to the generator picking up the whole house. She now thinks it might be from the generator and is getting out of the house with the 3 cats and 2 dogs. She calls me and I am on my way home less than 10 minutes away. I tell her I have no notifications from our [REDACTED] alarm other than loss of power. I get home to the 3 interconnected alarms blaring and I try to silence them. I can't get them down off the ceiling due to a tamper resistant design( what a great feature on a residential ceiling mounted device). I try to [REDACTED] it on Kidde's website only to find I need to enter the model number that can't be seen until you get it down off the ceiling. I contacted Kidde and there suggested "repair" was to unplug it and plug it back in. The Kidde rep. stated this "should" fix it and if not next time it does this they will replace it. I said there will not be a next time and I will be replacing all 3 with another brand not made by Kidde. My electric had been off a few times prior to this with no false alarm. As far as the repair of unplugging and then plugging them back in. That is not a repair, that's a fluke. Rebooting your computer is one thing I don't wa

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260606-1AD27-2147317769. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Kidde KN- COPE- IC (Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm). Incident: My Kidde smoke and carbon monoxide alarm failed on. It sounded for about 20 minutes and then stopped. About 10 minutes later it sounded again for about 40 minutes and then stopped. After about 10 minutes of silence, it started up again and stayed on. I verified multiple times that there was no smoke or fire in the house. Since I had multiple smoke detectors daisychained, I disabled the batteries first and then one by one I disconnected the smoke detectors from my power supply until I found a failed unit. I verified this by plugging the other units back in with no issue. I took the failed unit and pushed the battery door closed and within 30 seconds it began sounding the alarm. This model number is KN COPE IC with a manufactured date of January 12 of 2023 and installation date of May 27, 2023 est. The battery is a Gold Peak alkaline whats the name Kidde. I checked the battery voltage and it measured 9.51 VDC.O