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

[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

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.