fire alarm rant :(

[ChelseaBun]

why do fire alarms think it's appropriate to tell you the battery is low at 3 in the morning!
Whoever thought up this *amazing* safety device needs to be found and tortured by it.
They should at least tell you through the day when it's possible to even go buy a battery that the stupid awkward thing takes.
Square batteries? Last time I even saw those was in physics at school, even then they served no use other than turning on the worlds smallest lightbulb.

So after trying to persuade my alarm to take AA batteries, which it didn't take kindly to, it's now wrapped in blankets, stuffed in the back of a drawer in a far away corner in the spare room.

Oh and also, after being removed from the mains, the battery taken out, it still beeps... Why?!?

[lagerland]

Adjust it with a hammer that should do the trick chelsea...............

[ChelseaBun]

haha i would've if it was through the night, I didn't want to risk it getting angry and just going off and waking the baby.

[RedSpider]

you'ld complain more if you ignored the dead battery and then a fire started at 4.00 lol

[Miklo]

Just add a new battery Chelsea, less hassle and also what Red said above too. :)

[ChelseaBun]

but i don't get why it needs a battery if it's connected to the mains :S

or why they don't tell you during the day, or why they don't have a nicer way of telling you other than a beep.

[ChelseaBun]

isn't it a mans place to take care of these things anyway?

[maca]

isn't it a mans place to take care of these things anyway?
it is i'll be round shortly to start a fire..

[Shady]

why they don't have a nicer way of telling you other than a beep.
what would you prefer? voice synthesis?
'erm excuse me, sorry to bother you, but erm, theres like some smoke or something, erm i dont know exactly where it is, and its probably only the ~~~~ing kettle going off, but you maybe want to check it out..again sorry to bother you'

[ChelseaBun]

what would you prefer? voice synthesis?
'erm excuse me, sorry to bother you, but erm, theres like some smoke or something, erm i dont know exactly where it is, and its probably only the ~~~~ing kettle going off, but you maybe want to check it out..again sorry to bother you'

no i meant just to let you know the battery is low :)

[Shady]

AH gotcha.. i can do that..
'erm, excuse me, just me again, erm, its just that like, my erm, batteries getting a bit low, and like if you want me to save your life one day and that, then erm, maybe you should like change it or something?'

[RedSpider]

in the smoke alarms defence, it can't tell the time lol

it needs a battery incase it's an electrical fire, in which case, the alarm is no longer drawing power from the mains.

you're pretty ~~~~ed though if its the alarm that causes the fire

[RedSpider]

I would like tp propose the idea that instead of incessant beeping when the alarm detects smoke, it plays the circus music

[maca]

oh ffs do you want me to start this fire or not??

[ChelseaBun]

oh ffs do you want me to start this fire or not??

well of course.
Fire = fit fire men.

And in reply to red, yes actually it can tell the time, in the dark it beeps every 90 seconds, once i turned on the light it beeped every 5 minutes.

[RedSpider]

well that just means it can respond to light. i assume it beeps more in the dark because it may well need to wake you up to change the battery so that it can save your life should the time come.
a more regular beep is more likely to wake you.

you could, of course, change the battery on a regular basis, say once every 6, 8 or 12 weeks. a battery should easily last 3 months, even if its pound shop tat.
then it won't go on at you like a bloke in need of a ~~~~~~~ lol

[ChelseaBun]

i only moved in 5 weeks ago, but will keep that in mind. And deffinately be stocking up on the crazy square batteries.

[RedSpider]

i don't like square batteries but i like to lick square batteries

[Meat-Head]

Now if it's a mains powered system, you can link upto 15 of them, so when one dects smoke, they all bleep.

I have one smoke detctor fitted in my house - it still has the plastic bag on it, the other
~~~~ knows how many are still in the large box under the stairs.

Think you will find that some mains ones, the battery is a lititium 10 year life span, cost like ?7 each, but saves having to change them every year.

Oh, speaking of changing them every year, why not do it at xmas - give each smoke detector new battery, that way it's a memarable date you know when it was.

Oh Daddy (before he died) changed a battery in smoke detector and ALWAYS wrote the date on the battery - a year to the day (after he died) it started bleeping low battery

Mains powered ones should NOT have their own supply, but powered off another circuit.

You loose power no idea, you loose your lights or sockets, you find and fix

Meat

[gmb45]

Now if it's a mains powered system, you can link upto 15 of them, so when one dects smoke, they all bleep.

I have one smoke detctor fitted in my house - it still has the plastic bag on it, the other
~~~~ knows how many are still in the large box under the stairs.

Think you will find that some mains ones, the battery is a lititium 10 year life span, cost like ?7 each, but saves having to change them every year.

Oh, speaking of changing them every year, why not do it at xmas - give each smoke detector new battery, that way it's a memarable date you know when it was.

Oh Daddy (before he died) changed a battery in smoke detector and ALWAYS wrote the date on the battery - a year to the day (after he died) it started bleeping low battery

Mains powered ones should NOT have their own supply, but powered off another circuit.

You loose power no idea, you loose your lights or sockets, you find and fix

Meat

:eek: ya loosing ya touch meaty, i understood every word of that :(

[Miklo]

i don't like square batteries but i like to lick square batteries
Quick buzz Red? Like the game Operation but, for real! :eek:

[Meat-Head]

:eek: ya loosing ya touch meaty, i understood every word of that :(


~~~~, that two members who have said something past few days


that cannot be meat-head i understand him now lol


*MUST* be because just done another computer with XP Home - got it activated :roflmao::roflmao: - seperated into two users - Myself (Meat-Head) and my fictious profile i use when been desrete on 'other' websites

BUT no spell checker! Must be mozerella firefox spell checker encripting my posts for the last 6000 posts

[jcgrumbles]

i don't like square batteries but i like to lick square batteries
Just find a really old woman red...:devil:

[Meat-Head]

i don't like square batteries but i like to lick square batteries



There are more people killed by licking a 9 volt PP3 battery each year than as a result of home electrical DIY mods. Probably just an excuse to employ more civil servants.

:questionmark:

[RedSpider]

Just find a really old woman red...:devil:

but batteries don't go on at me and give me a headache chatting about god knows what

[patkins]

Some smoke alarms ,like intruder alarms, have a battery backup in case of power outages.
Ignoring a battery change whether it's square, oval or otherwise would be like driving at night without headlights,it's always someone else who dies in a house fire, that would never happen to me .Now would it?

[badapple]

Changing the battery on a bleeping smoke alarm is nothing compaired to what could happen if a fire starts and you & your kids are fast asleep.

It would take you only a few minutes & a couple of ?s to put this problem right and it could save your & your familys life.

We have 10 smoke alarms around the house & I check them every week.

It may be a waste of time...BUT it puts my mind at rest.

[ChelseaBun]

Some smoke alarms ,like intruder alarms, have a battery backup in case of power outages.
Ignoring a battery change whether it's square, oval or otherwise would be like driving at night without headlights,it's always someone else who dies in a house fire, that would never happen to me .Now would it?

to be fair, nowhere was it said I wasn't going to be replacing the battery. It was 3 in the morning, I didn't have a replacement battery to hand and i spent the rest of the night awake.

[Snowy79]

Most smoke detectors have a test button for the purpose of ensuring the battery has some life left in it.