Do e-cigs set off smoke detectors?
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xxsannxx said:
Don't mean to be disresptful xxsann but that would really be nice if these ecigs could set off a smoke detector!
No I never tested and don't know about the mechanism that sets off smoke detectors.
I doubt it, unless you blew vapor directly into a photo-electric one.
But I do know I've accidentally fallen asleep with an e-cig in my hand! My house has survived the miscues.
But I do know I've accidentally fallen asleep with an e-cig in my hand! My house has survived the miscues.
EricD was able to set his off by blowing into it. Not sure if it was a fire or smoke detector though.
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I gotta rush to invent a "Vapor Detector" so all the nannies can check on their tenants.
It'll have a big bull horn and a warning buzzer, followed by a booming voice like on Amtrak, "Someone is e-smoking in Apartment 21. Please cease at once."
It'll have a big bull horn and a warning buzzer, followed by a booming voice like on Amtrak, "Someone is e-smoking in Apartment 21. Please cease at once."
No it doesn't. But my husband's flatulence does. He's not allowed to go in bathrooms on the planes. I'm just sayin....
karenwest1961 said:No it doesn't. But my husband's flatulence does. He's not allowed to go in bathrooms on the planes. I'm just sayin....
Oh you poor dear! Is there anything we can do? I do hope you have taken steps to protect your own health - like banning him to the garage.
if your hubby farts smoke karen i wonder if u breath fire..
back in the days when i used to have smoke detectors in my house my chip pan used to set them off.. my smoking never did thow..
carry a little cloth and elastic to put around them if in doubt.. i do when on a boat for any length of time.. i dont go on airplanes any more too dangerouse they might have liquid bombs on em.. he he
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back in the days when i used to have smoke detectors in my house my chip pan used to set them off.. my smoking never did thow..
carry a little cloth and elastic to put around them if in doubt.. i do when on a boat for any length of time.. i dont go on airplanes any more too dangerouse they might have liquid bombs on em.. he he
trog
Yes, vapor can set off smoke detectors, so can steam from a shower or teakettle, if there's enough of it getting into the smoke detector's intakes. Unless you're blowing right into it, though, it's unlikely.
leaford said:Yes, vapor can set off smoke detectors, so can steam from a shower or teakettle, if there's enough of it getting into the smoke detector's intakes. Unless you're blowing right into it, though, it's unlikely.
Ummm, as far as I know VAPOR is not the same as SMOKE.
I "vaporized" mine in the bathroom in an airplane.
You bet ya planes have the most sensitive SMOKE detectors anywhere in the world.
Vapor, smoke, steam, dust, pet dander, whatever can get into the intakes and block the receptor CAN set a smoke detector off. As I said though, it's unlikely. I work at a hotel with 398 rooms. That's 398 smoke detectors, a nice sample size. Every night we get at least one room's smoke detector go off from steam from the shower. And we have several floors under renovation right now, we had to shut off the fire system on those floors because dust from construction sets them off. Just because they call it a smoke detector doesn't mean it has any way of discriminating smoke from any other substance.
What, you mean there isn't some little man in the smoke detector that pushes a button if he smells smoke?leaford said:
Lmao
As far as I know smoke detectors don't CARE. All they have is a sensor like a automatic garage door opener. If something is thick enough to block the small light it shines inside the housing from reaching the receptor, it makes a whole lot of racket.
Vapor just dissipates quicker than smoke, so that is why the majority of people here are saying don't breathe vapor directly on it, and you will be fine.
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