Unbranded SS-168 / General Purpose smoke alarm review
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Don't Buy this smoke alarm – it failed to detect smoke in seven-out-of-eight of our fire tests
When set the task of detecting smoke from fires fuelled by wood, plastics, cotton and solvents, this unbranded and unreliable product – sometimes known as the SS-168 - failed to sound in all-but-one of our eight fire tests.
It’s one of the most unresponsive and potentially dangerous alarms we’ve seen and in our tests, we found it unable to reliably detect smoke and that’s why we’ve made it a Don’t Buy.
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