I've got a whole lot of experience in these areas... Interesting idea, but there are a whole lot of limitations to this, the most critical is that it is not for use in any sort of fixture. It will pretty much work only with a plain, exposed light bulb. How many of those do you see? Every room? -- I doubt it!
Possibly a pendant fixture, but one that would have to be designed from the ground up to screw into a light socket, which would mean re-writing fixture mounting codes.
If any part of the fixture departs from the basic shape of a light fixture, it would change the air flow around the detector, which would invalidate the certification.
About the only place I see it is in utility areas, where a bare bulb wouldn't be a bad thing.
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Ladderless @ Dec 19th 2005 12:56AM
I've got a whole lot of experience in these areas... Interesting idea, but there are a whole lot of limitations to this, the most critical is that it is not for use in any sort of fixture. It will pretty much work only with a plain, exposed light bulb. How many of those do you see? Every room? -- I doubt it!
Possibly a pendant fixture, but one that would have to be designed from the ground up to screw into a light socket, which would mean re-writing fixture mounting codes.
If any part of the fixture departs from the basic shape of a light fixture, it would change the air flow around the detector, which would invalidate the certification.
About the only place I see it is in utility areas, where a bare bulb wouldn't be a bad thing.