On The Subject Of "smoke Alarms"....

Are These Supposed To Save Our Lives.....Or Slowly Kill Us...???.

I Have 9 Of These In My House.....And 2 Weeks Ago The One's In The Spare Bedrooms

Decided To Go Off Within A Day Of Each Other.......Changed The Batteries In Both

And One Went Quiet....Then Resumed It's Beeps....2 Weeks Later The One I Removed

It's Battery In Total Frustration Is Now Beeping Yet Again.......Done The Usual

Google Search.......Tried All The Fixes.....Just About To Take Them Both Out

With A 12 Gauge Shotgun... :yikes: ... In A Last Ditch Attempt To Avoid A Massive Hole In

My Ceiling.......Does Anybody Here Have A Better And Less

Destructive Solution.....???...



Cheers Glen.

 

Always change, all your batteries with fresh purchased ones, together..

Always works for me..

 

The Internet Has Many Solutions......But None Seem To Work.....But What Has Really "Got Me"

Is The One I Removed The Battery From 2 Weeks Ago......Suddenly Starts Chirping Again...... :wall:

Apparently There Is A Capacitor In There That Will Retain A Charge.....But Why Wait 2 Weeks

Before Sounding The Alarm...???.....



Cheers Glen.

 

I'm one of those people who just rip mine down because they go off every time I cook.

I get tired of messing around with them, so...yeah...

 

It sounds like you're saying that your alarm remembers the status of the previous battery needing to be replaced even after the battery has been replaced. I would think that it would recognize a fresh good battery as having enough voltage to prevent a chirp from happening again.

Perhaps the alarm is old and starting to malfunction and is chirping to indicate the malfunction.

http://www.safelincs.co.uk/why-should-smoke-alarms-be-replaced-after-ten-years/

"The Minnesota Department of Public Safety cite a nationwide study undertaken by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which states that 97% of smoke alarms should still be functioning after one year, if supplied with power. After ten years it is 73%, whereas after 20 years, this figure stands at 54%. The study also indicated that 60% of the failures were due to flat or removed batteries or a disconnected power supply and the study offered possible reasons for this. Ageing alarms may experience sensitivity drifting, which may, in turn, result in an increased frequency of accidental activation and an increase in people removing the power supply. It was thought that newer alarms with a ‘hush’ feature may contribute to remedying this."

 

That was my thought also. I'd just replace the things entirely, they're cheap enough.

 

Set fire to the house, once burned down, you wont need the smoke alarms anymore

 

LOL


Well, on a more serious note, If I were him and lived out in the middle of whoop whoop, i'd convert a couple shipping containers, or at least make the whole house concrete

Bathurst is on the other side of the Blue Mountains, dont know if he is quite in bushfire country

But seemingly every summer I shake my head, a couple houses lost in the Blue mountains....oh, I build a house out of timber in a bushfire zone errr why did it burn down, errr munananana

D'uh

But knowing this country, you'd still need fire alarms if the house was made out of sandstone

 

Don't bang your head on the wall too hard, GlenGlen.

Rain Man movie. Kitchen fire alarm scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6qco6gCsVE

 

Where I live, we deal with the opposite problem. Everything is so green (especially in the summer) that it's tough to keep anything dry.

Although 9 smoke alarms seems a bit excessive. Do you have one in every room? More? You must have some crazy fire codes.

VG--whereabouts do you live? My guy wants to say Sydney, but I don't quite recall.

 

Nine alarms = GlenGlen owns a mansion

 

Mine triggers as soon as I make toast and it's about 15 feet away round a corner*

*I only use the best whole wheat, grown by organic monks in a remote orchard about 14,700 feet up in a secret mountain fastness

 

nah - he's way out in da boonies

 

you could short out the capacitor (don't do this with a TV tube howsomeever)

 

me too - but a couple of days later I notice it sitting on a table and push it back in

 

Yeah - makes the point - good one dude

you are a dude arencha?

 

I Got On The Company Website And They Said To Hold The Test Button In For At Least

35 Seconds To Discharge The Capacitor.......So I Did That In Both Rooms But The Unit That

I Thought Was In The Other Room Started Again.......So Back And Forth I Went Determined That These

Little Bastards Were Not Going To Put Me In An Even Worse Mood........

And Guess What..??..I Was Going Down The Hallway Between The Rooms When That

Beep Was Really Loud......Turned On The Hall Light And Here's Another One Going Off

In The Hallway Which I Hadn't Noticed Before..... :wall:

Anyway I Haven't Got Enough Batteries For The 3 Of Them So I Replaced The Hall One

Which Has 2 Batteries.....One For The Alarm.....And One For An Emergency Light.

Finally I Am Blessed With Silence......



Cheers Glen.

 

Not A Mansion But A Very Big House......307 Squares Without The Veranda Or Garage.....

The Guy Who Lived Here Before Me Was A Master Electrition And In The Interests Of

Safety Over Engineered Everything........Iv'e Been Here Almost 3 Years And I'm Learning

Something New Every Day.......Still Haven't Been Upstairs To The Storage Attic..... But Hey

You Can't Rush Things......



Cheers Glen.

 

BLEEP! BLEEP!! BLEEP!!!