modern smoke detectors are such spectacularly worthless pieces of shit come home to one beeping. i'm like, oh, this shit, so you can make this whole rig for wiring it into the house so it can beep at me and i can't sleep but you can't spring for $2.12 to make it self-recharging
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so i go get the ladder and a 9-volt battery and climb up, acrophobia jangling. the battery compartment is right at the maximum extension of my arm and turns out not to be a push-to-pop-open one, it takes lateral force and won't fucking open. but eventually it goes.
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thing takes AAs. jesus christ. down, get AAs, back up. start pulling the old batteries. they've gone bad in the unit and, since this is something i have to do overhead, now there's a light dusting of dried battery acid coming down. luckily my eyes were to the right of it
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zero visual indication of what orientation the batteries need to be in when they go in, but i find it. pop 'em in, close compartment, haul ladder away. two rooms away when the fucking thing beeps again. haul ladder back, back up, acrophobia not any happier
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there's exactly one way to interact with the unit, a button. press it. every alarm in the apartment starts going off saying "FIRE". cute. press it again, it says "carbon monoxide". press it again, blinky light goes solid green and it shuts up. okay, cool. haul ladder away
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two rooms away and it beeps again. it is literally fucking ignoring the fresh batteries i have just put in it. back up, tear the fucking piece of shit off its connectors. so now thanks to good old fashioned American cheap shitty design, i have no smoke detector in this room
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but the smoke detector sitting uselessly on my dresser is fully compliant with a long list of safety requirements set by busybody knowitalls with no skin in the game! so *that's* all right
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Replying to @chaosprime
Is it at its 10 year expiration? I had a whole house full of them do that last year and it turned out they’re built to demand to be replaced at their expiration. I just googled it to be sure my memory isn’t messing with me; did not find confirmation that this is a common thing
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no idea, it was literally saying "low battery" though so i imagine if it was mad about something else it'd say so
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Replying to @chaosprime
Maybe the people responsible for putting in the “End of Life” message knew they’d have moved on to other jobs by the time anyone figured out they hadn’t done it right though
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