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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2018, 10:12:18 PM »
Quote from: Fly320s on November 12, 2018, 09:25:13 PM
Wait!  Brainstorm idea!

Make the wall closest to the smoke alarm a climbing wall.  Then charge people toclimb up and change the battery.  Success!  Thanks me later.

FTFH

I'll take my thanks as a cut of the proceeds.
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2018, 10:30:25 PM »
FYI: From personal experience on a Battery only smoke detector: It started chirping, took out dying battery, kept chirping for almost a WEEK! The chirping part takes VERY little energy and a dying battery will go on FOREVER (it seems).
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2018, 11:33:40 PM »
Quote from: HeroHog on November 12, 2018, 10:30:25 PM
FYI: From personal experience on a Battery only smoke detector: It started chirping, took out dying battery, kept chirping for almost a WEEK! The chirping part takes VERY little energy and a dying battery will go on FOREVER (it seems).

If it kept chipping after you took out the battery (which I infer from the sentence*)  then it must be a zombie detector. [tinfoil]





* I suspect you mean it chirped a long time before you excised the zombie battery .....
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2018, 11:35:37 PM »
No, there is a capacitor or such that retains enough power to let the dang thing chirp for DAYS AFTER the battery has been removed!

(edited because I can't spell "is")
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2018, 01:32:48 AM »
It is always the middle of the night, and it is always the one requiring an extremely tall ladder.  Iz phizzics.
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #30 on: November 13, 2018, 03:26:26 AM »
PS: I found removing the battery and then stuffing the beeping thing in an underwear drawer, deep under a large pile of cloth, will make it so you can sleep until you get fresh 9v batteries.
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #31 on: November 13, 2018, 03:28:02 AM »
PPS: I now have a TON of 9v batteries and nothing to use them in as the apartment detectors are battery free, hard wired units!
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2018, 09:10:45 AM »
Quote from: HeroHog on November 12, 2018, 11:35:37 PM
No, there is a capacitor or such that retains enough power to let the dang thing chirp for DAYS AFTER the battery has been removed!

(edited because I can't spell "is")

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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2018, 10:00:15 AM »
Be glad it's only chirping.

When I bought my house, I didn't realize the "hard wired" smoke detectors also needed batteries - and when the battery died on one, the alarms ALL went off. At 0200.  :facepalm:

I was not happy.

Same thing happened at about the 9 year mark when one of the detectors reached it's end-of-life.

New batch has lasted ~13 years so far, so I'm on borrowed time . . .

 
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2018, 11:14:31 AM »
Quote from: MillCreek on November 12, 2018, 01:25:05 PM
None with a ladder that high.  Plus, the foyer is about seven feet wide, so I am figuring out that even if I find a long enough ladder, can the base of the ladder be angled out away from the wall a sufficient distance for safety?

If it can't go any farther then what's the danger?  A ladder will work fine vertical if it's adequately secured that way.
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #35 on: November 13, 2018, 11:16:15 AM »
Quote from: HeroHog on November 13, 2018, 03:28:02 AM
PPS: I now have a TON of 9v batteries and nothing to use them in as the apartment detectors are battery free, hard wired units!

Some TENS  units them. The kind that go all the way up to "fleeing felon."
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2018, 11:37:08 AM »
Quote from: HeroHog on November 12, 2018, 11:35:37 PM
No, there is a capacitor or such that retains enough power to let the dang thing chirp for DAYS AFTER the battery has been removed!

(edited because I can't spell "is")

High capacity capacitor ....got it. 

I can sympathize .... I've gotten to really despise electoniky things that make noises...... >:D
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Re: Chirping smoke detector 26 feet up
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2018, 12:07:08 PM »
Quote from: griz on November 12, 2018, 03:29:14 PM
What Brad said.  People are tempted to do something like this, but 30 feet is in the fatal fall category:



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