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Thread ID: 128646	2013-01-05 22:08:00	Smoke alarms failing?	superoman (6703)	PC World Chat

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1321497	2013-01-08 10:01:00	I would not have thought that Panasonic was a cheap brand. And they were about $4.00 each. I saw top range Alkaline batteries at nearly $10 Do they really last 2 and a half times as long ?	Digby (677)
1321498	2013-01-08 10:21:00	That depends on how you value whatever the smoke alarm is protecting . If the battery doesn't do what it was purchased for it really doesn't matter how cheap it was - even a free one means the alarm it was intended for is a total waste of money . As for what it was meant to protect . . . . . ? ? ?	R2x1 (4628)
1321499	2013-01-11 00:48:00	I would not have thought that Panasonic was a cheap brand. And they were about $4.00 each. I saw top range Alkaline batteries at nearly $10 Do they really last 2 and a half times as long ? The speil is you should check your smoke alarms every 6 months and change the batteries! Reality is that if you check your batteries and use a multitester to check them those batteries can last longer much longer! However colder conditions do drain batteries. As for price of a brand of a smoke alarm! Consider this if it was given to you would you regard it as being a cheap product? Production costs of smoke alarms hardly anything the marketing of a brand name is where the cost is at. Personally I have not a clue what brand smoke alarms we have! All I know is they came from Mitre10 and given out free from the fire service.	coldfront (15814)
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