05-17-2015, 06:37 AM
I started renting a new house in HPP in 2008. The wired smoke alarms started going off at night. They were wired to an arc-fault circuit breaker which is supposed to trip on electrical arcs and are required on new construction. The data sheet on the smoke alarms advised not to connect to arc-fault circuit breakers because they might activate the alarms erroneously, but the arc-fault breaker manufacturer data sheet said that their circuit breakers could be used with smoke alarms. The owner lived in California and the house was about to be foreclosed so I turned off the circuit breaker and relied on three of my own battery powered smoke alarms. After I moved out and stopped paying rent, the house was abandoned.