The smoke alarm upstairs started beeping in the house today so i thinks right time for a battery change, decided to check the downstairs one on the way up and i discover theyre running off the electric.would anyone be able to shed any light on why its beeping?ive used the test button and theyre both working fine that way
There should still be a battery in it, there is in mine anyway for some reason, even though it runs of the sparks..
Yeah should defo be a battery in them. Becareful taking the battery out as it can be tricky. Well it was for me! LOL
It's incase of a power outage or electrical fire, there is a fail safe So the beeping is because the battery is dead.
The battery is there for extra safety, if for any reason your electricity gets cut off or goes the alarm will sill sound if there is a fire. The beeping is just an indication for you to change the battery.
eric im not whipping it apart again took me a half hour to put it back together!!its actually stopped now altogether.it said on the inside of it replace by 2013 might buy a normal battery powered one in the next couple of weeks to replace it anywsy
Would not sleep with out a smoke alarm in my house, when I was 9, a family of 7 up the road was killed in a house fire.
The battery is for back up but they will run out i had the same problem you can get 10 year batteries for them.
Its the battery you need to put in a new one in. I know its only a fail safe on the smoke alarm but I would mess with it a it will safe lives
If it says 'do not open' and you cannot get access to the battery, then once it goes, the whole unit needs replaced.
Was talking to a friend of nine who owens masterfire he daid to tell ya there a fault buy a new one with the 10 year battery and then u just replace it evety 10 years but it has ro be wired up to the mains as well the battery is just back up in case of power failier which happens every so often anyway...
the ten year battery thing makes sense lads because it has stamped on it replace by 2013 and the installtion date of 2003 on it.like a lot of things in my house its probably from bloody liquidated stock.the builder got a heap of stuff on the cheap when i moved in the bolier wasnt working right so to speed things up i got a friend of the brother in and he never seen a bolier like it before.the brother works in a heating and energy place and looked into it for me and the company making them had gone bust just before the estate was built!! anyway i think ill defo go buy a battery one id prefer them anyway i never realised what we had was electric!
I just had a ten minute battle with our one (burned rashers), and then i remembered yer post from the other day. Yeah, the fact they are "wired" was a surprise to me as well. But you can see the logic behind it. Ours started randomly bleeping one night and we took the battery out and then realised we didnt have a replacement. I never wanted to batter something with a huge stick, so much in my life. Oddly enough, I was fcukin about with it at 4am and it suddenly stopped bleeping. I think the cover had become slightly loose and it just bleeped because of that. Certainly wasnt a battery issue. Because the little bollix is still alive and kicking