When it comes to detecting the smoke, the time is essence. This is why we have prepared a test that simulates a real life Emergency.
The first thing is that there are two main types of fire for these products that are designed for these products: Sluming fire and vivid fire.
A smoldering (or slow burning) fire refers to combustion that occurs on the surface of a solid material. Sleeping fire produces large amounts of thick smoke, but cannot maintain a flame. Think of a cigarette, slowly burning but never really burst into flames.
Smoke detection testing in progress.
A smoldering fire may occur and if proper action is not taken immediately, a vivid fire will become.
Vivid fire is those that we are more familiar with, and they usually arise from ignition of any flammable material, such as a flammable substance, wood, paper, etc. These usually produce less smoke than a smoldering fire but are more destructive.
In my backyard, I built a chamber, which has a smoke detector and two different types of smoke are fed through a chimney. I gave time to the sharpness of reaction. The faster the alarm of smoke detectors was better.
To simulate the smoke coming from a smoldering fire, I ignited 300 grams of charcoal and allowed the smoke to be heated for 10 minutes before feeding. I wanted to make sure that most coals were ignited and smoke was quite thick to trigger the alarm.
It was easy to recreate a vivid fire, only 30 grams of chopped paper moved. Again, I ensured that a significant amount of smoke was present through the chimney and before feeding in the chamber.
For great inconvenience of my neighbors, which had to close the alarm of smoke randomly, and for whom I honestly apologize, I repeated the entire process under the test and three times per type smoke, a total of six test runs per smoke detector. Finally, I an average of the response time.
