{"id":4465,"date":"2013-12-03T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2013-12-06T07:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T15:25:05","slug":"how-to-install-the-nest-protect-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/how-to-install-the-nest-protect-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Guide to Installing the Nest Protect Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve and I installed two Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm from nest.com<\/a>, and thought you might enjoy a visual guide to how it’s done.<\/p>\n


\nNOTE: Do NOT try this if you’re not already comfortable with identifying the correct circuit breaker and how to ensure that you won’t get electrocuted! If you’re not comfortable with this – hire a professional or ask your mom to help you!<\/span><\/p>\n

01 Revealed wires from old smoke detector<\/h4>\n
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02 New wiring harness<\/h4>\n
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03 Steve setting up voltmeter (safety first)<\/h4>\n
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04 Voltmeter connected to house wiring<\/h4>\n
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05 Steve monitoring voltmeter<\/h4>\n
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06 Turning off the circuit breaker<\/h4>\n
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07 Confirmation electricity is not flowing<\/h4>\n
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08 Stripped portion of the cable wos originally too short<\/h4>\n
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09 Connecting new cable harness with wire nuts<\/h4>\n
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10 Buzzy monitoring the operation<\/h4>\n
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11 New wire harness in place<\/h4>\n
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12 New faceplate<\/h4>\n
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13 Supplied mounting screws excessively long so we used original screws<\/h4>\n
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14 Electric drill to start the original mounting screws bayonet side down<\/h4>\n
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15 Switched to manual screwdriver as plate was very thin<\/h4>\n
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16 Underside of nest showing bayonet mounting holes and connector port<\/h4>\n
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17 Nest bayonet mounting holes visible and connector attached<\/h4>\n
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18 Constantly bumping the button caused the Nest to keep trying to test<\/h4>\n
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19 Blue light after successful test<\/h4>\n
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Steve and I installed two Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide alarm from nest.com, and thought you might enjoy a visual guide to how it’s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-gadget-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}