Conflicting information from AICO!?

HappyHippyDad · Oct 15, 2018

A customer has asked me to stop there AICO heat detector from beeping. I was about to give them step by step instructions to change the battery as it has an alkaline battery in it.

AICO instructions state how to change the battery therefore the battery must be changeable? It is not the lithium model. It is the Ei144RC.

The customer has just sent this picture

[ElectriciansForums.net] Conflicting information from AICO!?

I don't understand!

123 · Oct 15, 2018

Looks like a radio link base there mate, which has it's own, none replaceable battery in it

Octopus · Oct 15, 2018

what makes you think its the 144RC?

suffolkspark · Oct 15, 2018

Murdoch said:
what makes you think its the 144RC?

Defo looks chunkier than standard base, im with 123....

I dont think the bases give an audible low batt warning (they may have but i dont know) so go ahead and tell them how to swap the 9v in the head

Octopus · Oct 15, 2018

suffolkspark said:
I dont think the bases give an audible low batt warning (they may have but i dont know) so go ahead and tell them how to swap the 9v in the head

The RF bases, if my memory serves me correctly, have a usable life of about 10 years .... there should be a date on it .... and a date on the alarm too

ChrisElectrical88 · Oct 15, 2018

The radio bases are lithiun with a 10 year life.

HappyHippyDad · Oct 15, 2018

Thanks chaps! It's the radiolink base that has the sticker! I didn't notice that.

littlespark · Oct 15, 2018

A radiolink base suggests another radiolink unit in the house somewhere.
If there isn't another radio unit, maybe the beeping is the base hunting for a mate?

baldelectrician · Oct 15, 2018

I would suggest changing them to the new Aico 3000 range - they have rechargeable back up batteries as well as taking an internal radio link modules.
This means that you have the same bases throughout

I use Aico all the time and find them good.

Aico have registered installers on their site