Topic: Smoke Alarm
Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:09 AM
I had someone pull the dead battery out, but it's STILL beeping at me!!grumble grumble I guess I have to live with the aggrivation of it until tomorrow morning, when I can have the landlord take it out, and put one in that actually works!grumble grumble

Ted14621's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:12 AM
I put mine in the freezer so I wouldn't have to listen to it.

Quietman_2009's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:41 AM
if it still beeps after you pull the battery it's prolly hardwired in the ceiling

the more expensive systems usually are. that way the monitoring company can respond to em

the landlord will prolly have to have an electrician change it

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:52 AM
It is in the ceiling, I seemed to have 'fixed' the beeping though!! I took a wire hanger, and used the curved end to gently pull apart the wires, and it stopped!!:banana: :banana: I'll talk to the landlord tomorrow morning, and see what he can have done!!:heart:

beachbum069's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:55 AM
You have a hardwired system with battery backup. If it's beeping that means the battery is dead or if it's a fire alarm/CO2 detector that the element needs to be changed.

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:56 AM

You have a hardwired system with battery backup. If it's beeping that means the battery is dead or if it's a fire alarm/CO2 detector that the element needs to be changed.
battery is out, but it was still beeping!!

no photo
Sun 12/13/09 10:59 AM
Hey! here is an idea.Stick an M80 inside it w/ the fuse protruding from it.Light the fuse & toss that puppy through the air as if it were a Frisbee.laugh Boom!!:tongue: But on a serious note,yep! it's hardwired if the battery has been pulled & it is still functioning as Qman mentioned.I have both installed where I live.Try to distract yourself as much as possible (music?) till tomm.Godspeed!Cy :smile: flowerforyou

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 11:10 AM

Hey! here is an idea.Stick an M80 inside it w/ the fuse protruding from it.Light the fuse & toss that puppy through the air as if it were a Frisbee.laugh Boom!!:tongue: But on a serious note,yep! it's hardwired if the battery has been pulled & it is still functioning as Qman mentioned.I have both installed where I live.Try to distract yourself as much as possible (music?) till tomm.Godspeed!Cy :smile: flowerforyou
I 'separated' the wires with a hanger!! It stopped!! I'm still going to talk to my landlord tomorrow!!:smile:

Quietman_2009's photo
Sun 12/13/09 11:34 AM
if I remember right it should be low voltage (24 volt) so it shouldn't be dangerous

but I wouldn't have enough faith in that assumption to touch the wires wth my fingers to find out

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 12:57 PM
It stopped for a couple of hours, the cover fell off, now it is the occasional loud chirp!!grumble I am definitely going to call the landlord tomorrow!!rant

TxsSun's photo
Sun 12/13/09 12:59 PM
Mine did that, I put a new battery in and it stopped. Just taking out the battery doesn't help.


Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 01:01 PM

Mine did that, I put a new battery in and it stopped. Just taking out the battery doesn't help.


I can't reach up there to even see!! I am short!!:tongue: The landlord will have to help me!

TxsSun's photo
Sun 12/13/09 01:03 PM
laugh Do you have a chair? That is what I had to do...Mine were 9ft tall..I am short too

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 02:18 PM

laugh Do you have a chair? That is what I had to do...Mine were 9ft tall..I am short too
I'm disabled!! No balance standing up high. I'll wait for my brother. It seems to have stopped 'chirping' anyway! It's been 2 hours!!:smile: Leo, my bro is 6 ft tall, so in a day or so, he can put in the new battery!!:tongue:

TxsSun's photo
Sun 12/13/09 02:50 PM
WOW, now I feel like an a**. Sowwy...I didn't know..flowerforyou

Redsoxfan1's photo
Sun 12/13/09 03:14 PM

WOW, now I feel like an a**. Sowwy...I didn't know..flowerforyou
That's ok, noone knows unless I tell them!! :)