With interconnected smoke alarms if one units starts to malfunction will the others on the same circuit be affected?
If all the units are interconnected and one goes into an alarm or malfunction state, it will cause the rest of the units to also signal that alarm or malfunction. The originating smoke alarm will be the unit with the rapidly flashing red LED while the unit is in alarm, or it will be the flashing green LED alarm memory condition afterwards. Reset this unit and the problem should stop, if not then disconnect the unit and diagnose the unit individually.
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