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| Thread ID: 130229 | 2013-04-02 05:50:00 | Its coming up to that time of year again - Smoke Alarms | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1335065 | 2013-04-02 05:50:00 | With daylight saving changing next weekend (I think) They say its a good time to test or change your smoke alarms batteries. Three things ! 1 Do you think it is a good idea to just change the battery every daylight savings change with say a standard battery. 2 Or is it best to buy a top of the range battery and leave that in till it dies ? 3 Why, is it that when you test a smoke alarm they beep (that's good) and then they keep beeping even after you press Silence ! That is really annoying. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1335066 | 2013-04-02 06:01:00 | Personally combine parts of 1 & 2 - We change ours at the beginning and end of daylight, give or take a few days. The price of few good quality batteries is nothing compared to having working alarms that do work if required. Theres been to many people injured or die in house fires due to non working alarms. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1335067 | 2013-04-02 06:04:00 | I generally buy normal quality batteries - when I test them after I pull them out, they almost always have a nearly full charge (definitely enough to run the alarm), even after a year.... YMMV.... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1335068 | 2013-04-02 06:33:00 | Theres been to many people injured or die in house fires due to non working alarms. Yes but is that because they did not test them or did not put batteries in them ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1335069 | 2013-04-02 06:50:00 | Same as Wainui but keep the old batteries for kitchen scales etc. Write on them with a felt pen so they don't end up back in an alarm (Have been known to buy good-quality 9V batteries purely to get supermarket bill up to $200 to get 25c fuel discount...) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1335070 | 2013-04-02 06:53:00 | Your smoke alarm should beep every so often when the battery is about to die. Just have a couple of spares when they do die. We only replace ours every few years or so. | jonovw (16835) | ||
| 1335071 | 2013-04-02 07:15:00 | Yes but is that because they did not test them or did not put batteries in them ? The alarm probably went off when the oven/fireplace was going so the batteries were pulled out instead of the alarm moved. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1335072 | 2013-04-02 07:25:00 | The alarm probably went off when the oven/fireplace was going so the batteries were pulled out instead of the alarm moved. I like that, it means i am probably cooking a mean feed instead of salad |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1335073 | 2013-04-02 07:50:00 | Yeah, I've had a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with fire alarms. The tight fisted, greenie DIY side of me wanted to uo try rechargable batteries in the detectors... the result was lousy intervals between low battery alerts, which are not worth the lost sleep. The next desire was to daisy-chain a few batteries to get a better lifespan. Never got around to it, and it would have looked like #$%^. Batteries have finally come down to a semi reasonable price, so I'm now of the attitude to just replace the suckers annually, or failing that, at the first low battery chirps... which typically occur early morning in the colder months. Any alternatives to that system are more pain than they are gain, as I totally hate being woken at 3am by a cold battery going undervoltage. That sleepy 3am brain takes a while to figure out that the chirps aren't from some manic bird perched outside. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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