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You have to test it frequently, the reason is that smoke may be visible or may be not and you want to see all particles that emanate from any kind of smoke, specially during night time when you are asleep. Most of dust/ash particles may not be visible and via ionizing detector they will be!!!! Alarm will go off making alert sound and you will be safe.

So, sumirizing, you need to test ionizing smoke detector to see if sensor is in ok condition.

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