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Wireless Sound Module

(Direct Plug with battery back-up)

Thank you for purchasing a Kidde Wireless Interconnect Sound Module. It is an important part of your family’s home safety plan.

You can trust this product to provide the highest level of quality and performance. We know you expect nothing less when the lives

of your family are at stake. This Sound Module, in combination with a Kidde Wireless smoke alarm, provides you additional means of

notifying individuals of a smoke incident. In a fire seconds count. An interconnected alarm system gives you an increased level of

safety by ensuring that all the alarms in your home activate when any one of the alarms detect a fire. Kidde estimates that the smoke

alarms in 85 million homes in the US are not interconnected. This unit has several features that may provide an earlier warning of a

hazardous condition. Some of the features that are included in this unit are:

• Loud verbal warning; a recent study has shown that voice messages can be up to 61% more effective in waking children.

• Low Frequency (1kHz) alarm signal; lower frequency signals may be more effective at alerting those with high frequency

hearing loss.

• Remote Hush® temporarily desensitizes the initiating Kidde Wireless smoke alarm (see section 4).

• Remote Push To Test that causes each Wireless unit in your system to perform a self-diagnosis whenever the test button is

pressed on any of the Kidde Wireless units (see section 4).

• Low Battery HUSH allows you to stop the Sound Module from producing a low battery warning for up to twelve hours to

maintain your protection without having to replace the battery at inconvenient times such as the middle of the night.

WARNING! This audible signaling device, model RF-SND, is NOT a smoke alarm and has no means of

detecting a hazardous condition. This audible signaling device MUST be used in conjunction with one or more

operating Kidde Wireless smoke alarms. The model RF-SND can only be used in conjunction with Kidde RF-SM-

ACDC A.C. wire-in or RF-SM-DC battery operated smoke alarms. All Wireless units must be set to the same

switch settings before they are powered up in order to work properly.

WARNING! DISCONNECTION OR LOSS OF AC POWER WILL LIMIT THE OPERATING TIME OF THIS UNIT.

User’s Guide

Wireless, Interconnected, A.C. Sound Module with 9-Volt Battery Back

This Sound Module is compatible with the following alarms and accessories:

·Smoke alarms: RF-SM-AC, and RF-SM-DC

See User’s Guides for specific application information.

WARNING! REMOVAL OF THE SOUND MODULE BATTERY AND DISCONNECTION OR LOSS

OF A.C. POWER WILL RENDER THE SOUND MODULE INOPERATIVE.

ELECTRICAL RATING: 120 VAC, 60HZ, 300mA maximum per Sound Module.

IMPORTANT! READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE INSTALLATION AND KEEP THIS MANUAL NEAR THE SOUND

MODULE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

CONTENTS OF THIS MANUAL

1 -- RECOMMENDED LOCATIONS FOR SOUND MODULES

2 -- LOCATIONS TO AVOID

3 -- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

4 -- OPERATION AND TESTING

5 -- NUISANCE ALARMS

6 -- MAINTENANCE

7 -- GOOD SAFETY HABITS

8 -- TROUBLE-SHOOTING GUIDE

9 -- SERVICE AND WARRANTY

RF-SND

Summary of content (6 pages)

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RF-SND Wireless Sound Module (Direct Plug with battery back-up) Thank you for purchasing a Kidde Wireless Interconnect Sound Module. It is an important part of your family’s home safety plan. You can trust this product to provide the highest level of quality and performance. We know you expect nothing less when the lives of your family are at stake. This Sound Module, in combination with a Kidde Wireless smoke alarm, provides you additional means of notifying individuals of a smoke incident.
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1. RECO MMENDED L O CAT I O NS F O R SO UND MO DUL ES Recommended Applications: • • • • • Child’s bedroom. Bedrooms of sound sleepers. An elderly person’s bedroom. The bedroom of a person with high frequency hearing loss. In bedrooms without a smoke alarm and especially where someone sleeps with the door closed. The closed door may prevent the smoke alarm outside the room from waking the sleeper.
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Remove the back cover from the unit by prying it up at the bottom in the center. If you are setting the unit up for the first time, set the Wireless ID as described previously before connecting the battery. Connect the battery to the terminals in the back of the unit and place it in the battery compartment. Replace the back cover of the unit and place the unit in its chosen location.
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The Sound Module is operating once fresh batteries are installed, it is plugged into a non-switched AC outlet and testing is complete. When the Sound Module receives an alarm message from a Kidde Wireless smoke alarm, the horn will sound a loud (85db) temporal alarm for two cycles of three beeps followed by a verbal “Danger” message. This cycle repeats until the alarm message is no longer broadcasted from the smoke alarm.
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After installing or changing the battery, reconnect your Sound Module to AC power. Test your unit by using the test/reset button and check that the green LED is on. It may take up to one minute for the green LED to turn on continuously after the unit is plugged into AC. WARNING! BE SURE TO USE ONLY THE BATTERIES SPECIFIED. USE OF DIFFERENT BATTERIES MAY HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THE SOUND MODULE AND MAY CAUSE I NOT TO FUNCTION AS INTENDED. CLEANING YOUR SOUND MODULE.
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1394 South Third St. Mebane, NC 27302 FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT This device has been designed, constructed, and tested for compliance with FCC Rules that regulate intentional and unintentional radiators. The user is not permitted to make any modifications to this equipment or use it in any manner inconsistent with the methods described in this User Manual, without express approval from Kidde. Doing so will void the user’s authority to operate this equipment.