Where is the best place to install a smoke detector?
Installing a smoke detector on every level of the home provides good all-around protection for the least investment. Install smoke detectors in according to manufacturers recommendation.Smoke detectors operate on one of two basic principles: ionization or photoelectric.
Ionization detectors respond to particles often smaller than can be seen with the human eye. Because the greatest number of these particles are produced by flaming fires, they respond slightly faster to the flaming fire than do photoelectric detectors.
Photoelectric detectors respond to larger particles than the ionization detector so they respond slightly faster to smoldering fires than ionization detectors. While there is a small variation in response times, both detectors will detect fire.

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