Kidde KN-COPE-D User Manual

User’s Guide for Model KN-COPE-D

Combination

Photoelectric
Smoke and Carbon
Monoxide Alarm

• Battery Operation: 9V Battery

• 2-LED Display

• Front Load Battery

• Peak Level Memory

• Hush ®

• Voice Message System

For questions concerning your Smoke and Carbon Monoxide

Alarm, please call our Consumer Hotline at 1-800-880-6788.

For your convenience, write down the following information. If you call

our consumer hotline, these are the first questions you will be asked:

Alarm Model Number

(located on back of the alarm):

Date of Manufacture

(located on back of the alarm):

Date of Purchase:

Where Purchased:

ATTENTION: Please take a few minutes to thoroughly read this user’s
guide which should be saved for future reference and passed on to any
subsequent owner.

Manual P/N 2540-7202-02

What To Do When The Alarm Sounds!

WARNING:

!

When the carbon monoxide alarm sounds:

If alarm signal sounds:

1) Operate the test/reset button

2) Call your emergency
services (Fire Dept. or 911)

3) Immediately move to fresh air - outdoors or by an
open door/window. Do a head count to check
that all persons are accounted for. Do not reenter
the premises nor move away from the open door/
window until the emergency services responders
have arrived, the premises has been aired out,
and your alarm remains in its normal condition.

4) After following steps 1-3,
if your alarm reactivates
within a 24 hour period,
repeat steps 1-3 and call
a qualified appliance technician to investigate
for sources of CO from fuel burning equipment
and appliances, and inspect for proper operation
of this equipment. If problems are identified dur
ing this inspection have the equipment serviced
immediately. Note any combustion equipment not
inspected by the technician and consult the manu
facturer’s instructions, or contact the manufactur
er’s directly, for more information about CO safety
and this equipment. Make sure that motor vehi
cles are not, and have not been, operating in an
attached garage or adjacent to the residence.

Actuation of your CO Alarm
indicates the presence of
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
which can kill you.

PHONE NUMBER

PHONE NUMBER

What To Do When The Alarm Sounds!

NEVER IGNORE THE SOUND OF THE ALARM!

Determining what type of alarm has sounded is easy with
your Kidde Combination Smoke/CO Alarm. The voice mes­sage warning system will inform you of the type of situa­tion occurring. Refer to the Features section on page 4 for a
detailed description of each alarm pattern.

When the smoke alarm sounds:

Smoke alarms are designed to minimize false alarms.
Cigarette smoke will not normally set off the alarm, unless
the smoke is blown directly into the alarm. This unit con­tains nuisance alarm protection, which will reduce the
impact of cooking particles. However, large quantities of
combustible particles from spills or broiling could still cause
the unit to alarm. Careful location of the unit away from
the kitchen area will give the maximum nuisance alarm pro­tection. Combustion particles from cooking may set off the
alarm if located too close to the cooking area. Large quanti­ties of combustible particles are generated from spills or
when broiling. Using the fan on a range hood which vents
to the outside (non- recirculating type) will also help remove
these combustible products from the kitchen.

If the alarm sounds, check for fires first. If a fire is discov­ered follow these steps. Become thoroughly familiar with
these items, and review with all family members!

• Alert small children in the home. Children sleep very
sound and may not be awakened by the sound of the
smoke alarms.

• Leave immediately using one of your planned escape
routes (see page 25). Every second counts, don’t stop
to get dressed or pick up valuables.

• Before opening inside doors look for smoke seeping in
around the edges, and feel with the back of your hand
If the door is hot use your second exit. If you feel it’s
safe, open the door very slowly and be prepared to
close immediately if smoke and heat rush in.

• If the escape route requires you to go through smoke,
crawl low under the smoke where the air is clearer.

What To Do When The Alarm Sounds!

• Go to your predetermined meeting place. When two
people have arrived one should leave to call 911 from
a neighbor’s home, and the other should stay to
perform a head count.

• Do not reenter under any circumstance until fire
officials give the go ahead.

• There are situations where a smoke alarm may
not be effective to protect against fire as noted
by the NFPA and UL. For instance:

- Smoking in bed.

- Leaving children unsupervised.

- Cleaning with flammable liquids, such as gaso-

line.

- Fires where the victim is intimate with a flaming

initiated fire; for example, when a person's
clothes catch fire while cooking.

- Fires where the smoke is prevented from reach-

ing the detector due to a closed door or other
obstruction.

- Incendiary fires where the fire grows so rapidly

that an occupant's egress is blocked even with
properly located detectors.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Product View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Operating/Installation Instructions

Step 1: Installation Guide:

A. Recommended Installation Locations . . . . . . 8

B. Where Not to Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Step 2: Mounting Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Step 3: Testing Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Features and Operating Instructions . . . . . . . . . . 14

Battery Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

General Alarm Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Carbon Monoxide Safety Information

General CO Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Possible Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

CO Safety Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Symptoms of CO Poisoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Fire Safety Information

Escape Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Fire Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Industry Safety Standards

National Fire Protection Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

California State Fire Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Consumer Product Safety Commission . . . . . . . . . 24

Warranty and Service Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the Kidde Combination
Photoelectric Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm model
KN-COPE-D.

Please take a few minutes to thoroughly read this user’s
guide which should be saved for future reference. Teach
children how to respond to the alarms, and they should
never play with the unit.

Your Kidde Smoke/CO Alarm was designed to detect both
smoke and carbon monoxide from any source of combus­tion in a residential environment. It is not designed for use
in a recreational vehicle (RV) or boat.

If you have any questions about the operation or installa­tion of your alarm, please call our toll free Consumer
Hotline at 1 800-880-6788.

The guide on page 8 will help you determine the correct
location of safety products that will help keep your home a
safer place.

1

Product View

FRONT

Test/Reset/Hush

Button

Alarm Sounder

Green& Red LED

(Light Emitting Diode)

Voice Speaker

Battery Compartment

2

Product View

Mounting Bracket

Tamper Resist

Latch

Battery Door

Tamper-Resist

Slide

BACK

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Features

•

Permanent independent smoke and carbon monoxide sensors

• Smoke alarm takes precedence when both smoke and car­bon monoxide are present.

• Alarm/Voice message warning system that alerts you of the
following conditions in the manner described below, thus
eliminating any confusion over which alarm is sounding:

o FIRE: The alarm/voice pattern is three long alarm beeps fol-

lowed by the verbal warning message “FIRE! FIRE!”. This
pattern is repeated until the smoke is eliminated. The red
LED light will flash while in alarm/voice mode.

o CARBON MONOXIDE: The alarm/voice pattern is four short

alarm beeps followed by the verbal warning message
“WARNING! CARBON MONOXIDE!”. After four minutes
the alarm/voice pattern will sound once every minute until
the unit is reset, or the CO eliminated. The red LED light
will flash while in alarm/voice mode.

o LOW BATTERY: When the batteries are low and need

replacing the red LED light will flash and the unit will
“chirp” one time, followed by the warning message
“LOW BATTERY”. This cycle will occur once every minute
for the first hour. After the first hour the red LED light will
continue to flash every minute accompanied by the
“chirp” only sound. The voice message “LOW BATTERY”
will sound once every fifteen minutes during the “chirp”
only cycle. This will continue for at least seven days.

• Voice Message System that alerts user to the following con­ditions:

o System announces “HUSH MODE ACTIVATED” when the

unit is first put into HUSH Mode.

o System announces “HUSH MODE CANCELLED” when unit

resumes normal operation after Hush Mode has been can­celled.

o System announces “CARBON MONOXIDE PREVIOUSLY

DETECTED” when the unit has detected CO concentra­tions of 100 ppm or higher.

o System announces “PUSH TEST BUTTON” when the unit is

powered up, reminding user to activate the Test Button.

• One “chirp” every 30 seconds is an indication that the alarm
is malfunctioning. If this occurs call the Consumer Hotline at
1-800-880-6788.

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