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Official U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission consumer incident report from the SaferProducts.gov public database. Use the verification links below to confirm the record on SaferProducts.gov or via the public database export.

Product

Kidde P3010L

Category

Smart Home Device

Report number

20150115-4553C-2147436489

Ownership age

About 3 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Overheating

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20150115-4553C-2147436489. Matched catalog product: Kidde P3010L. Incident: Came home to smoke detector going off. Unit hangs above refrigerator. Started smelling and looking for smoke. Other detectors in the house were not going off. Silenced alarm and continued to look for smoke. None found. Detector goes off again after silence timeout. Removed detector from wall and swapped with another unit elsewhere in the house to verify issue with unit. Moved detector outside and still went off again after timeout. Ended up having to tape over detection area to keep it from going off. Did not risk turning unit off permanently as I wasn't sure this would void my warranty. Also looked at some reviews on home depot and amazon. Many others experiencing the same problem, which prompted me to fill this out. My concern is that like stated with may others in the reviews, the cry-wolf of this makes you begin to disregard it, and that should never be the case with a life safety system.

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