9V Radio-Interlinked Smoke and Heat Alarms - Ei3100RF Series

Yes, the Ei3103 range, Ei3100RF - Ionisation Smoke Alarm Ei3105RF - Optical Smoke Alarm Ei3103RFU - Heat Alarm, interconnect with each other. If one sounds it will send a radio-signal to the other units and they will then be activated.

The Ei3100RF series of battery operated smoke alarms are complete alarms, they do not require base plates to make them radio interlinked.

There are three different alarms that make up the Ei3100 series. The Ei3100 optical alarm does have a hush button, which can be pressed to reset the alarm should a false alarm occur. The ionisation and heat alarms do not have hush buttons. Should either of these alarms trigger a false alarm, due to cooking fumes for example, the alarm can be silenced using a folded newspaper to fan underneath it. To identify which alarm has triggered the false alarm it is the unit with a rapidly flashing red LED.

Yes, all the products listed are compatible. After purchase they do need to be house coded together to ensure they work correctly.

If one alarm was to malfunction the other units would not be affected, if it was due to alarm failure. If the fault was with the radio-interlinking signal, then all alarms that are in the chain after the faulty alarm would be affected and they would not go off.

No, you do not need to remove all the batteries. Just simply press the house code button on all the units. Please ensure that the batteries have full power as this could render the house code process incomplete.

Yes, radio interlinked alarms are periodically sending and receiving signals from other units in the network and therefore the life of the battery is reduced. Units with alkaline batteries should have the batteries are changed annually [unless they are fitted with a sealed 10 year battery as eg in the Ei600RF series].

Yes, should the radio interlinking signal fail the units will continue to sound independently should they detect a fire.

No, with this series of radio interlinked alarms there is nothing other than pressing the house code button required to install them.

BS 5446-1:2000 was withdrawn in 2008 and replaced by BS EN 14604:2005 to conform with European standards. All of our alarms containing a smoke detector (smoke only, smoke & heat, smoke & CO) are fully compliant with BS EN 14604:2005. They also comply with any other relevant standards relating to their other detection capabilities.

Each type of Ei3100RF smoke alarm can be set as a repeater. However, only one repeater per smoke alarm system is allowed.