Try lighting a smoke match. Then you will see what a LOT of smoke really looks like. They produce enough to show clearly which chimney serves a particular fireplace when you need to know.
Colin Bignell
And the manufacturer of the alarms?
I wanted to know if the alarm operated when there was a small fire just starting, not when my house has burnt down!
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So what you are saying is that you kept the two most likely to give you a false alarm, and threw away the one that worked correctly...
For which, as I said before, you need a fire detector, not a smoke detector.
Colin Bignell
No, I kept the two that detect smoke properly like every alarm I've ever had. I'm talking about a hell of a lot of smoke to set the dodgy one off - enough smoke to almost obscure the smoke alarm from sight.
As in detecting a sudden increase in heat?
I'm half wondering what this "fire detector" is as well. Rate of change of heat, absolute heat? Something else but not detecting combustion particulates (aka smoke)?
He is a serial troll, so I feel quite justified in pointing out what he is asking for, whether it actually exists or not. However, a rate of heat rise detector is a fire detector that does not require the presence of smoke. I have also been told by someone I knew, who used to install hospital fire systems, that there are much more sophisticated systems than the rather primitive devices sold for household use that pick up combustion products from the very early stages of a fire, long before any smoke detector will be triggered.
Colin Bignell
My smoke detectors will trigger with no visible smoke.
Have you been using the induction hob again?
I asked a quite sensible question, stop being so childish.
Everybody has a nose.
Not everybody and even if they do (or don't) they might not have any sense of smell.
I bet you're fun at parties.
My dog hasn't.
Go on, I'll let you have the punch line with this oldie:
How does he smell?
Neither has Voldemort.
Try hitting the wrap button "O" on Agent, not sure about Turnpike (which by the way is a rather simplistic pile of rubbish).
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