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09-13-2009, 12:00 PM | #1 |
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| My smoke detectors keep going off! And no there is no fire and I haven't been cooking The one in one of the bedrooms keeps setting off all the others since they are all wired together. There is no sign that anything could be setting it off, and they are not CO detectors, I have 2 separate detectors for that. I have had no low battery indicator sounding recently either. This has happened several times today and it is starting to make me nervous though! Anyone have this happen?
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09-13-2009, 12:30 PM | #3 |
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| Yep thats probably what it is.
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09-13-2009, 01:34 PM | #4 |
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| Usually if a battery is going dead, it will chirp every other minute or so until I replace it. This is an all-out alarm that sends the whole house full of smoke detectors off. Does that happen too? It never has for me before.
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09-13-2009, 01:56 PM | #5 |
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| Oh I dont know about all that then. Is it monitored somewhere else? If it were me and I couldnt figure out (and I have done this before), I would call the non emergency number for the police department and ask if they could send someone from the fire department over there, jjust to check things out. You can explain the situation to them, its better to be safe than sorry. I would think if something was happening (fire wise) that you would already be showing signs of it.
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09-13-2009, 02:09 PM | #6 |
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| I agree with having the PD or FD send someone over to check things out. Have you had any storms in your area that could be shorting something out or brown outs from hot weather or anything like that? Tree branches hitting a wire connected to the house and shorting something out...or a bare spot on a wire connected to the house? Branches can wear the outer covering off of the wires and squirrels also eat the outer cover. I would even call an electrician in there to check for a short in your system...could be a loose wire or something. Believe me...fire and CO detectors are 2 things in your home that you want to be working correctly...been there, done that with both of them and they saved our lives. Well, them, the firemen and our neighbors...don't mean to scare you but you really need to have the problem looked into. |
09-13-2009, 02:23 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | If they are the kind that have the eye in them a spider or something maybe blocking the eye off and on tripping it. (Yes, it happens to that kind).
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09-13-2009, 02:40 PM | #8 |
The 3 Musketeers Donating Member | When was the las5t time you changed the batteries? Every year as soon as the first smoke alarm starts making it's noise, I just go and change all four batteries at the same time.
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09-13-2009, 03:48 PM | #9 |
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| I just read a ton of stuff online saying that's usually what it is. We are pretty sure its dust, cobweb, or spider. If just the light is on in the room, it's fine. The minute I turn on the ceiling fan, it goes off. I am thinking something is getting blown around in there. DH is going to go clean it out and see if he can find out whats going on.
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09-13-2009, 04:15 PM | #10 |
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| Mine does that when the batteries are going dead.
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09-13-2009, 04:15 PM | #11 |
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| This happened to me a couple years ago... the one in our bedroom kept setting off the other ones in the house caue they were all wired together. We even got so scared the first time it happened that we called the fire department. Legally since there was no fire...they couldnt turn off the fire alarm. SOOOOO we had to climb up and pull it out manually and disconnect it. We "thought" it was the battery too, but it wasnt. It ended up that we had a defective alarm....this happens sometime. I would suggest disconnecting the one that is setting off all the others, finding out the model no. and ordering a new one. Most likely its defective and this will keep happening. Once we ordered a new one and put it in...it hasnt happened since.
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09-13-2009, 04:34 PM | #12 |
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| We had hard wired ones upstairs which we disconnected and installed regular smoke alarms . . .the hard wired ones were a PITA!!! They would go off literally in the dead of the night . . .no fire, no smoke, nothing . . changed the batteries, vaccumed in case there were cobwebs or a spider, but they did it even after that . . .on occasion . . .always between 2 to 4 am . . .it was annoying and spooky all at the same time . . .
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