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Bosch Smart Home Twinguard Smoke Detector User Guide
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Twinguard, including accessories, is a smoke alarm certified to EN 14604:2005/AC:2008, which is radio-linked to your Bosch Smart Home Controller. It is equipped with the following functions and components:
- Acoustic alarm
- 360° light strip for optical signals
- Radio module
- Alarm LED
- Emergency light
- Air quality sensor
- Smoke sensor
- Brightness sensor
- Large control button
- Batteries
The product reliably warns you if a fire occurs in your house or flat. Optical and acoustic alarms are triggered when smoke is detected.
Intended use
The product is only suitable for use in residential houses, flats and rooms used for residential purposes and must only be used together with original Bosch Smart Home components in indoor areas.
- Follow the safety instructions and the directions in this manual and the Bosch Smart Home App to ensure that the product is set up correctly.
- Please adhere to the connection conditions, ambient temperatures and humidity limits in the technical data (see page 17).
- Avoid direct sun light and heat/cold sources.
BOX CONTENTS
Twinguard
- Please check the delivered goods for damage.
- Please only mount undamaged parts.
- You need an Internet connection and commercially available WiFi router with a free LAN port to operate the Smart Home Controller and connect Twinguard smoke alarms.
- Batteries (6 x 1.5 V AA alkaline) are included and can be replaced as required.
Safety Instructions
- Please do not open the Twinguard smoke alarm. The product does not contain any parts for maintenance by the user. If the smoke alarm stops working please contact customer service via telephone. Please adhere to the
manual instructions on intended use. - Please use only original parts. Please use only batteries recommended in the technical data. Please use only fixing material recommended in this manual. Please do not paint the smoke alarm. Please do not paper over the smoke alarm.
- Batteries must not be exposed to excessive heat from sun light, fire and the like.
- Please note that a functioning radio connection is required for warning notification in the case of fire. Robert Bosch Smart Home GmbH cannot supply a guarantee for latency times.
- Please note that the fire service emergency number is not automatically called in the app in case the Twinguard smoke alarm detects smoke. You must call emergency services in this event.
- Please note that the Twinguard smoke alarm can only warn you on your mobile device if the latter is switched on and connected to the mobile communication network.
- The enclosed batteries are not suitable for charging.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW AND TWINGUARD DISPLAY
| Item | Description | Explanation |
| 1 | 360° LED light strip | Status display: red, orange, green, blue |
| 2 | Control button | Calling up and carrying out functions |
| 3 | Siren | Acoustic signal |
| 4 | Alarm LED | Red: Alarm or fault |
| 5 | Emergency lighting | For a safe exit out of the danger zone |
| 6 | Ceiling bracket | Ceiling installation |
| 7 | Fixing slot | For the fixing and exact positioning of the mounting plate |
| 8 | Straight side | For aligning the Twinguard with the ceiling |
PUTTING THE TWINGUARD INTO OPERATION
Twinguard activation
- To put your Twinguard into operation, you need to download the Bosch Smart Home App and have successfully activated your Smart Home Controller.
- To put your Twinguard into operation you need to pair your mobile device with the WiFi network to which your Smart Home Controller is connected.
- The Twinguard is activated once you remove the red plastic pin. Please note that a test alarm will be triggered if you unintentionally press the control button.
MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS
A visual and function check of the smoke alarm must be carried out monthly.
Visual check
- The smoke inlet openings along the 360° LED light strip and the sound outlet openings on the control button must not become clogged
- If necessary, clean the smoke alarm carefully with a damp cloth.
- The smoke alarm must not be damaged and must be securely fixed at the implementation location.
- A radius of 0.5 m must be left clear around the smoke alarm which might prevent smoke penetrating the smoke alarms.
Twinguard function check
- Briefly press the control button in the centre to check the alarm function. It will ring out three times at reduced volume, the alarm LED and 360° light strip flash red and the emergency light goes on.
- If the function check is successful, the 360° light strip will light up blue for a second.
ALARM AND FAULT RECTIFICATION
Twinguard faults
| Acoustic signal | Optical signal | Cause | Action |
| Quiet signal, every 43 s | Yellow LED flashes 3 times, every 43 s | Alarm defective | Replace alarm |
| Quiet signal, every 300 s | Yellow LED flashes once, every 300 s | Batteries almost empty | Replace batteries |
| Quiet signal, sounds hourly | – | Alarm okay, however the batteries of another smoke alarm in the network are almost empty | Look for the smoke alarm with a yellow-flashing 360° LED light strip (flashes once every 300 s) and replace its batteries |
Switching off the smoke alarm
In the case of an alarm, please press the control button in the centre of the smoke alarm to mute it.
- The smoke alarm that has detected the fire can only be muted using its control button. You can silence all the other alarms connected by the Smart Home Controller, which were activated by alarm forwarding using the Smart Home App.
- If the function check or switching off of an alarm is initiated using the control button, fire detection is deactivated for 10 minutes and the product is muted.
Technical Data
| Twinguard type name | FRS-5000-OW-EN |
| Article number | 8-750-001-215 |
| Rated voltage | 6 x 1.5 V AA alkaline batteries (replaceable) |
| Battery make | Duracell/ Panasonic |
| Battery life | 2 years (typical) |
| Type of protection | IP30 |
| Ambient temperature | 5 to 30 °C |
| Storage temperature | –5 to 30 °C |
| Maximum relative humidity | 85 % |
| Radio frequency band | 2.4 GHZ ISM band |
| Max. transmitting capacity | 8 dBm |
| Radio range in free-field conditions | ≥ 100 m |
| Volume at distance of 3 m (9.84 feet) | > 85 dB(A) |
| Housing dimensions (W × H × D) | 138 mm× 138 mm× 41 mm |
| Weight | 440 g |
