Fire angel plug in smoke alarms

[Gary Howe]

Copied from the fire angel website.....................

An increasing number of Housing Associations and Councils have endorsed the FireAngel as an economic alternative to standard mains-powered smoke alarms, including Cherwell District Council (Planned Maintenance Senior Supervisor, Andy Holloway), Lambeth Council and Alpha Tenant Management Co-operative Ltd, Sheffield .

The FireAngel self contained Plug-In Smoke Alarm is currently used by a number of leading Fire Brigades throughout the UK :

My question is, how does this product fit in with the requirements for a HMO?

I have ordered the latest version of BS5839 Pt 6, so I am unsure how these could be used instead of a typical 240V standalone smoke detector?

Advice please.


Regards


Gary

[Graeme]

If i remember the Fire Angel is charged when the light is on so it does have back up power in the form of a capacitor i guess.

Don't think they are aimed at HMO but private houses and local housing authorities.

[wee brian]

For HMOs you usually need some form of interlinked system so stand alone alarms are no good.

[wee brian]

Fire Angel is great for students and grannies. You can just walk in and fit it anywhere there is a light fitting.

Give your mum one for christmas, fit one in your daughters digs at Uni etc.

[Brian Downes]

My Brigades CFS department are doshing them out to old folks who cannot reach conventional detectors to test them. Fire angels are tested on the light switch. The company require them to be fitted no more than 280mm below ceiling to be effective. I think 5839 part 6 allows upto 600mm.
The units cannot be interlinked, so they would probably be ok to protect an individual housing unit in an HMO just like conventional single point smoke alarms.
They are obviously no use as part of an interlinked  part 6 system in a two storey HMO, or as part of a functional solution.