smoke detector

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  1. rickj

    Stove, pipes and chimney temperature and smoke monitoring - Arduino

    I’m planning to make a temperature monitoring system for my new wood stove using Arduino and thermocouples etc. (I can program Arduino and do electronics). Have already seen some projects here. Has any of you made a smoking chimney detector yet? I’d like to be alerted when my chimney is...
  2. S

    better cheaper smoke detectors...

    So, we had trouble with out normal (ionization) smoke detectors going off almost every time we opened the stove to feed it. We also had quite a few nuisance alarms in the kitchen when were really just cooking, not burning anything. I had an idea that perhaps the photoelectric smoke detectors...