Originally Posted by cromag
Not as serious as some of the Vents and Rants I've seen, but an annoyance just the same.
At just after 4:00 AM one of our nine interconnected AC-powered smoke detectors began its once-per-minute beeping routine, signalling that it's back-up battery was getting low.
I try to replace them on a schedule, but over the years I've probably had smoke detector batteries die unexpectedly a half dozen times.
I swear, every single one died -- and caused the smoke detector to start it's once-per-minute beeping -- between 2AM and 5AM. How do they do that?!?! There's no "clock" setting! How do they know when everyone (else) is asleep?!
And what's with the stupid once-per-minute beep? I hear a beep, it's not in the room I'm in (another thing that they always seem to know), and I go out into the hall to wait a minute before finding out that it's not the hallway smoke detector. Maybe it's one of the bedroom detectors. That can take a few more minutes -- and beeps -- to track down. Or it's downstairs, or in the basement, and I wait again.
And why just the once-per-minute beeps? There's a green power LED and a red "pulse" LED showing the battery isn't completely dead yet -- just "dead enough" to set off the alert. Why not a yellow LED on each detector to signal which one has a low battery so I can find the culprit without playing "Marco Polo" at all hours in the morning?!?!
Okay. I'm done now. |