2007-01-06 13:20:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Of course it should. Smoke dectors work by detecting particles in the air. That's what smoke is -- burnt particles. So, I would imagine that where you are placing the incense burner, there is no air current carrying the smoke up to the detector. Try sticking the incense right up to the dector and it'll go off. Same thing when you burn something on the stove. The detector goes off once the smoke particles reach it. Uh . . . if your detector doesn't go off when you stick the incense right up to it . . .check your batteries because that would be a problem! Have fun.
2007-01-06 13:31:02 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smoke detectors are designed to detect particles floating in the air. The incense does not put particles in the air just a bit of smoke.
A house fire will have something that burns dirty putting the very particles into the air that you WANT to know about. If the detector was so sensitive it went off with incense people would get fed up with the noise everytime they cooked food and they would take the battery out of the smoke detector making them worthless.
I once used a power saw to cut a piece of wood about thiry feet from a smoke detector. It went off without any smoke in the air because it sensed the tiny pieces of wood dust....
2007-01-06 13:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on how good a smoke alarm U have.. Yes it should and if it doesnt , throw away your s/alarm and replace it. preferable a hard wired one in the appropriate place. I burn a lot of incense in my house , but where I burn it there is no s/alarm as they would be useless anyway.. Contact an electrician and have 1 or 2 installed where he recommends , then feel free 2 burn your incense wherever U like , just not directly below your s/alarm (s) hope this helps
2016-05-23 01:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my guess is that because incense burns slower and the smoke that is emitted rises at a much slower rate it cools off faster. The smoke that you typically get from cooking or even a fire is much more intense and carries a heavier heat which triggers the smoke alarms.
2007-01-06 13:23:36 · answer #4 · answered by Truth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not enough smoke and its location. Incense at my place will set it off.
2007-01-06 13:30:18 · answer #5 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does just the incese is too far away... i mean you do cook things which smoke but also doesnt trip the alarm,,, Put the incese next to the detector and it WILL set it off
2007-01-07 02:16:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't generate that kind of heat or smoke.
2007-01-06 13:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by art_tchr_phx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
iIt doesn't put off enough smoke.
2007-01-06 13:31:21 · answer #8 · answered by MISS-MARY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋