Citation

Qualey JR. Fire Technol. 2000; 36(2): 89-108.

Affiliation

Simplex Time Recorder Co., Gardner, Massachusetts

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1023/A:1015498224060

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

As part of an effort to develop objective smoke detector selection criteria, smoldering smoke and flammable liquid fire tests were performed on photoelectric, multicriteria (ion/heat/photo), and laser-photoelectric smoke detectors. Results showed that, when evaluated at similar sensitivities, the laser-photoelectric and multicriteria detectors had response times close to those of the photoelectric detector.