excellent engineering decision for smoke-alarm makers to set up the ‘my battery is low’ chirps such that they’re really far apart and seemingly intermittent in frequency. which one is chirping? who knows, make the homeowner work for it!
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Especially fun when you are doing it at 2am.
Relative had an apartment with very high ceilings, where the smoke alarms were also connected to the electrical system, but had battery backups (heaven forfend, a brief power outage coincide with an inflagration). If the evil alarms sensed their backup batteries were dead ...
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I’ve been in that kind of situation and basically had to use a broom handle to smash the alarm
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They were - and I swear this true - somehow networked with each other, so they'd alll beep, but only one of them had the battery issue. Also they did this weird flashing thing. I had to tiptoe precariously on a ladder to literally rip one out of the ceiling.
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