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Nest Protect (Wired 120V ~ 60Hz) Detects smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) User’s Guide ATTENTION: Please read carefully and save this User’s Guide in a safe place.
Nest Protect is designed to detect smoke and carbon monoxide in a residential environment. It has multiple sensors to help it understand what’s happening in your home and a photoelectric sensor to detect slow, smoldering fires. Nest Protect can be used as a single station or multiple station alarm.
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Horn enables Nest Protect to alert you with a loud emergency sound. Speaker allows Nest Protect 13.4 cm to speak with a human voice. (5.28") Light ring changes color to alert you. Push the Nest button to hush alarms and run a test.
• In homes with more than 93 square meters (1,000 square feet) on one level, additional alarms may be required. Nest Protect should be installed at least 3 m (10 ft) away from cooktops or cooking appliances. Nest Protect should NOT be installed in unfinished attics or garages.
Installing on the ceiling is recommended. Mark where the screws will go using the base as a guide. Make sure it’s at least 10cm (4in) away from the wall. 10cm 4" CEILING Minimum 10cm 4" Minimum BEST NOT IN HERE THIS AREA 30.5cm 12" Maximum OKAY NEST LOGO HERE IS UPRIGHT SIDE WALL Figure 1...
35.4 " NOT IN THIS AREA 20cm – 7.9" NEST LOGO TOP OF IS UPRIGHT NEST PROTECT MAXIMUM NEST PROTECT (SEE NOTE) Figure 2 Figure 3 NOTE: Nest Protect may be located either on the ceiling or on the wall.
3. Have more Nest Protects? 2. Set up Nest Protect with the Nest app The Nest app will ask you if you have additional Nest Protects to set up. If so, it’ll take you The Nest app will guide you through each step: through a shorter setup.
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Protects, test they’re added to your Nest Account Switch off the correct circuit breaker or remove by pushing the Nest button on one Nest Protect the fuse from the fuse box. and follow the instructions to test. If they’re all added, every Nest Protect will speak up.
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8. Remove the old connector 9. Attach the Nest 120V connector Unscrew the wire Hold the white wire ends together, cap them nuts to detach the with a wire nut and twist clockwise until secure. 120V connector Do the same with the black wires. There’s no from your old need for the red/orange/yellow wire.
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Give it a slight twist clockwise. It’ll CLICK into place. Breaker box 14. Press to test Press the Nest button on one Nest Protect and follow the spoken instructions to test. They should all speak to you, confirming that they’re in range of each other.
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS When the Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarm has something to say, it will speak to you in words and colors instead of just beeping. It has two kinds of alerts: Heads-Up and Emergency Alarms. • Nest Protect can see smoke or carbon monoxide levels rising. So before it turns on an Emergency Alarm, Nest Protect gives you a friendly spoken Heads-Up to warn you in advance.
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“SMOKE ALARM HAS YELLOW or You’ve hushed an alert. Make sure you’re safe and BEEN HUSHED.” RED pulses. Nest Protect will now keep have put out the source of quiet, unless smoke or smoke or carbon monoxide. carbon monoxide reaches “CARBON MONOXIDE dangerous levels.
So go to that room and press the button on the Nest Protect there to hush every Nest Protect in the home. This will ensure that you will identify the source of the danger in...
That work with other products from other brands. means when one Nest Protect raises any kind of alerts, every Nest Protect in the house will WARNING tell you in which room the smoke or CO is in. For •...
Nest Protect continuously tests itself, so you don’t have to wonder if it’s working. • Press the Nest button twice to start a test. • Nest Protect will say: “This is only a test. When you turn out the lights for the night, The alarm will sound.”...
GENERAL MAINTENANCE BACKUP BATTERY CLEANING YOUR NEST PROTECT Like any photoelectric smoke alarm, Nest In case of power outage, Nest Protect will use Protect can get dusty. Do not clean it with its backup battery. detergents or solvents (like Windex®) and do not spray air fresheners, hair spray or other 3 AA Energizer®...
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2. Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew the two screws from the battery door on the back of Step 2: If your Nest Protect needs servicing, first Nest Protect. contact our support team to get a return number. Step 3: Send it to...
If they are wired, the smoke alarms cannot work during a long power outage and once the back up battery is dead. Nest Protect will warn you in advance when batteries are running low so that you can replace them.
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LIMITATIONS OF CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) ALARMS • This smoke alarm is not intended to alert • NEVER ignore your carbon monoxide alarm if it hearing impaired residents. Alarms specifically alarms. Refer to “What to do in case of a carbon designed for the hearing impaired, which monoxide alarm”...
As Nest Protect is also a Carbon Monoxide alarm, it is not recommended to install it in a furnace room WHERE TO INSTALL YOUR SMOKE ALARMS or a utility room if it contains a water heater or Where required by applicable laws, codes, or a furnace.
AC INSTALLATION WARNINGS ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD • Turn off power to the area where you will install • The alarm cannot be operated from power this unit at the circuit breaker or fuse box derived from a square wave, modified square before beginning installation.
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WHERE NOT TO INSTALL YOUR CO ALARMS for example – it is recommended a smoke • Keep carbon monoxide alarm at least 1.5m (5ft) alarm to be placed as far from these fuel- away from any cooking appliance including burning sources as possible. The placement stovetop, oven, microwave, etc.
Electrical appliances typically do not produce CO. • Mild Exposure: Headaches, running nose, sore eyes, nausea, vomiting, fatigue (often The Nest Protect CO sensor meets the alarm described as ‘Flu-like’ symptoms). response time requirements. Standard alarm • Medium Exposure: Dizzyness, drowsyness times are as follows: and vomiting.
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THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS CAN RESULT IN WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF A CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM TRANSIENT CO SITUATIONS 1. Excessive spillage or reverse venting of fuel WARNING burning appliances caused by: Actuation of your CO alarm indicates the I) Outdoor ambient conditions such as wind presence of carbon monoxide (CO) which direction and/or velocity, including high can KILL YOU.
FIRE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS CREATE AN ESCAPE PLAN TO PRACTICE WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF FIRE Be prepared when your smoke/CO alarm sounds its • Get out now. alarm. Develop a family escape plan, discuss it with • Don’t panic; stay calm. all household members, and practice it regularly.
Nest. IC RADIATION EXPOSURE STATEMENT This equipment complies with IC RSS-102 Nest Labs. 900 Hansen Way. Palo Alto, CA 94304 radiation exposure limits set forth for an uncontrolled environment. This equipment must be installed and operated with minimum distance 20cm (8in) between the radiator and your body.
TO CLAIM UNDER THIS LIMITED WARRANTY Before being able to claim under this Limited Warranty, the owner of the Product must (a) notify Nest Labs of the intention to claim by visiting http://support.nest.com during the Warranty Period and providing a description of the alleged failure, and...
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FOR THE PRODUCT BY THE ORIGINAL PURCHASER. by applicable law) to Nest Labs for repair or replacement. Nest Labs will have no warranty obligations with respect to a 7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY returned Product if it determines, in its reasonable discretion...
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