SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Overheating

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20240124-0774C-2147341528. Matched catalog product: Kidde P4010ACS. Source model text: P4010ACS and P4010ACSCO-W. Incident: I purchased 7 Kidde smoke detectors and they have a constant problem of false alarms. They are model P4010ACS which are wired and have a permanent battery. They first starting false alarming within two months of being installed. After it happened 3 or 4 times, I started removing the offending detector, thinking that there was a simple defective one. After removing 4 of them it seemed to be a device wide problem and I replaced them with another brand and no longer have false alarms. In addition to the false alarms, we would get periodic false alarms where we would get a smoke indication (3 beeps) but only one time, then they would go silent. Since I replaced them, I have them on the floor in my office, and since they have a 10-year battery they are still active, and still provide both actual false alarms and the short alarm. It is always only one alarming even though they are all next to each other. I have made a few inactive as they seemed to be the worst offenders.