I'm going to remove a hard-wired smoke alarm in my house, just wanting to know what best approach is to deal with the leftover wiring in my ceiling space. What should I be doing to the end of the wiring?
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D.W:Kickinbac:Sorry, dumb question but why are you removing the smoke alarm? How about installing a new wired smoke alarm? Then you will have safe wiring and new smoke alarm.
Otherwise, your power supply to the smoke detector could be from a lighting circuit on the loop between the switches. You could find this out by turning off circuit breakers until you find the circuit it's fed off. But obviously, you need to know what you're doing to test safely. If in doubt get an electrician in.
It was an older ionisation smoke alarm with battery backup, the battery needed replacing but the smoke alarm was misplaced while it was waiting for the replacement battery to be installed. It was mounted with a base that is hard-wired.
Given it's location it appears to be recommended to install photoelectric smoke alarms instead, and I already have a couple of spare long-life battery photoelectric units from when I installed them throughout the rest of the house, so rather than buy another hard-wired photoelectric unit I'd rather just install one of the devices I already have on hand.
The intention was to then use that spot in the ceiling to install a Wireless AP (its in our hallway, and right where I want another AP).
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