Sabtu, 13 Juli 2013

Why is my carbon monoxide detector chirping?

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John


Started Monday night at around 4am. Not an 'alarm,' but just a chirp as though the batteries were low. I hit the reset button and it stopped immediately. Same thing happened Tuesday night. Hit reset, stopped doing it.

Yesterday it started chirping in the middle of the afternoon, so I installed a new 9v battery, thinking that it must be low. Apparently that wasn't the problem, though, because it started chirping again this morning.

Does anyone have any ideas?
*edit: I replaced the battery yesterday with a new one, assuming the battery was the problem and that it would fix it.



Answer
Hi John, Iâm Ken with The Home Depot and have had this question before. Since you have replaced the old battery with a new one and that is not problem, your unit is probably ready to be replaced.

Some manufactures say to replace your alarm every 5 to 7 years. This is to benefit from new technology.

So I would check the age of your alarm and if it is within this time frame I would consider getting a new one. Having a proper working carbon monoxide alarm is very important. Hope this helps.

http://community.homedepot.com/t5/Parts-Care-Repair/Carbon-Monoxide-Safety/m-p/9879/highlight/true#M66

Disconnecting a smoke/fire alarm?




KW


I live in an apartment complex, and the smoke alarm in the unit keeps chirping, it's the kind that can twist off, but it hangs from the wires. There's no batteries in site for me to remove, so i'm assuming it's hardwired? I've contacted the office here, and they said I would have to wait until Monday evening to get it looked at. I've been listening to it all weekend, i'm going nuts.. I won't be able to stand 1 more night and entire day. Please help!


Answer
Very few smoke dectors are not abttery back up operated.

They are necessary for power outages, or if your electricity gets disconnected from a tripped circuit breaker, your elcetrical power lines get cut, etc...

I would go to the manufacturer's web site to see how to replacxe the battery if possible.

Most smoke detectors are hardwired for 2 reasons : For A/C power, and if one goes off it triggers the rest of the detectors to go off.

The hard wiring usually is to a plug that fits in the smoke detector outlet.

All smoke and carbon monoxide detectors I have owned or hooked up use 9v batteries.

It is hard to find fresh ones. Even brand new ones that ibought where to weka, that the smoke detector beeped almost immediately.

I got a Ten Year guarenteed smoke detector battery. It cost about $8, and got it at Menards. It is little ask for the peace of the smoke dectector's constant beeping, and possibly saving you from a deadly fire.

That way they do not need being replaced every year like or twice a year like the fire departments like to say when you change the clock in the spring and the fall for day light savings time.

Plus if they do not last 10 years there replaced for free!




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