Kidde Heat Detector, Hardwired with Battery Backup & 2 LEDs, Interconnect Capability, Ideal for Garages

This is a good product, easy to install works as a stand alone unit or connected to a combination of Kidde smoke/carbon monoxide detectors or Kidde heat detectors. The only thing that was unusual was that when I pulled the yellow vinyl strip out to activate the battery I did not realize there was more to it. The heat detectors chirped about once every sixty seconds. The problem was that Kidde installs the battery backwards so the unit is not activated even after the yellow strip is pulled out. Make sure the battery is turned around so the battery terminals face the unit's terminals.

It works and was easy to install.

Have been in over a year and work fine. Have actually gone off when there was just a bit of smoke. I have this tied in with two others and they all go off as they're supposed to when one does.

Most houses when they are built are usually fitted with the absolute minimum required photo sensitive fire detectors. Newer houses also have a carbon monoxide detector built in, which has a limited life and has to be replaced more often.For the kitchen or kitchen living space, if you have a gas stove or you bake foods using high heat a lot, chances are you'll get some smoke. The single photo sensitive detectors will often go off with false positivesWhen I spoke to Kiddie, they recommend this detector for spaces where by-products of gas cooking or high heat cooking smoke will set off a standard detector. For me, I have a Thermador 6 burner pro range and even with a 1200 cfm hood, I got a lot of smoke detector false positives. I swapped out the original Kiddie for this one and it is plug and play. I did not have to wire. I just unplugged the old and plugged in the new.Depending on the original detector, you might also have to swap out the base plate. I just loosened the screws on the electrical box, twisted off the old and then reversed the process.All up, the work required was about 10 minutes and I now have a smoke detector (actually it detects high heat over smoke) that does not go off every other day. I additionally installed a plug in carbon monoxide detector, so that I don't have to replace my smoke (heat) detector every 10 years.

Smoke detectors are recommended to be in hallways outside bedrooms. Sigh.Our hallway outside our bedroom is very "conveniently" (hint: NOT) right next to the kitchen, and very close to the gas oven, and we had a ionization/CO alarm that gave us a scare when we first used the oven and called the fire department to confirm if there is any CO leak that we didn't know of when we bought the house. That's when we learned all about "nuisance alarms". The alarm from the apartment where we used to live rarely went off while we cook so - yeah, this annoyance was new to us. Given we have about 10 of these hardwired together when one went off and I hate loud noises, I knew the smoke alarm will be my least favorite of all household electronics.We got this to replace the one next to the kitchen -- it was easy to install and test (with earplugs), and so far it did not throw any tantrums during frozen pizza nights like we used to have. I did not have to replace the existing Kidde wiring harness -- just the mounting plate. It integrated well with the variety of Kidde alarms we currently have (we plan to replace the nuisance ones at some point in the future).I also installed this in our basement to replace the ionization type that we have right beside the laundry/furnace room (that also went off when we are using our flat iron). No nuisance so far, although we make sure we don't put steam directly beneath it. Of course, I also got a separate CO alarm for the basement, though, for added protection.4-stars because while I'd rather chuck each one of these out into the dumpster, I have to have these for my own safety. I don't love it. I like it enough because it saves me from having frequent heart attacks.I wish they'd be able to manufacture more alarms that's ear-friendly, not ear-splitting, while being able to alert you with the situation. Or sound out a voice warning a few minutes before it starts beeping like crazy. It's just ironic how you're supposed to "remain calm" when these things go off, but I usually feel like joining my kitty under the couch when it starts shrieking.

Hard to judge a product that has never encountered the situation it was designed for but I can tell you what it does right. This alarm does not go off randomly like our hard-wired Kidde system did. The interconnected five unit Kidde system installed two years ago by our contractor has been nothing but problems. The main unit would go off which, by design, would trigger the other four. I replaced the batteries with 10 year lithium so it was not the batteries. I tried turning the power off the units with no effect. Running a huge floor fan pointed directly at the main unit helped. Finally, we removed the main unit and installed this one. False alarms stopped.

We put a new addition onto our house, and city code required us to install connected smoke alarms all over the house, upstairs and down. One of the smoke detectors was at the top of the stairs going down to the basement, too near our kitchen stove (less than 10 feet away). Another was in the living room, also a few feet from the kitchen area.We were getting too many false alarms with the smoke detectors, especially when some frying was being done in the kitchen. When all the alarms would go off, even our next-door neighbors would hear them, and wondered if we were all right. In the meantime, we were opening outside doors to bring in fresh air in order to get the stupid things to shut off, and getting really annoyed. We never had this problem before. But the city code required this on new construction, and we would not have originally passed the final inspection without the new smoke alarm system.After about the 3rd or 4th false alarm in about as many weeks, my next door neighbor suggested we replace the smoke detector in the kitchen with a heat detector. I did not know that such things existed at the time. So I ordered one, and replaced the smoke detector in the kitchen at the top of the stairs. That cut down on the number of false alarms from kitchen cooking, but the one in the living room was still being triggered sometimes. So I replaced that one as well, but with a carbon monoxide detector that worked in this wired system.This solved the problem of false and extremely annoying alarms, due to cooking in the kitchen (when frying something). And our next-door neighbors are happier too. The remaining smoke detectors are further away from the kitchen in other rooms, and are unaffected. I think we're pretty well-covered, and if any one of them gets triggered, they all go off.The city code had conflicting demands. Don't put them in a kitchen area, but do put them at the top and bottom of a stairwell. That was a contradiction in our case. Unfortunately, we could not find the other kind of smoke detector (not ionization) to work in our system. Even so, the heat detector made more sense as a practical replacement. And having an additional carbon monoxide detector made sense too.

Fits perfectly with the Kidde smoke detector wire harness. Used this to replace the smoke detector closest to the kitchen. Rest of the house is still smoke detectors, but the dog is happy the detector isn’t going off every time we cook something.

Works great in an area where we cook all the time and the other “smoke detector “ was constantly going off. Easy to install

Was looking for fire detection in my garage to be linked with smoke detectors in the house. Works great. A must as lots of fires start in a garage.

Fast shipment; works as advertised. No issues with quality.

I installed it and hasn’t had any false alarms it seems to be working flawlessly for right now

Installed easily. Wired it to other Kidde smoke alarm in house (using some 14/3 cable). Tested and it communicated both ways, and never smoked itself ;)