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Posted by Ron on September 28, 2007, 5:15 pm
Some charitable organization did some repair work on our house and in
the process, put up smoke alarms-- everywhere. Now for some unknown
reason, and for no apparent cause, one of those bloody smoke alarms
start going beep-- beep -- beep (long pause) beep-- beep-- beep-- beep
(long psuse) beep-- beep....
It's like a psychotic game of hide and go seek: I go running around
the house trying to find out which of those electronic bastards is
driving the family crazy with the noise, but whichever the device is,
it stops and may not make any noise for another long stretch of time.
Since there is no smoke, no fire, there shouldn't be any reason for
smoke alarms to be doing that right? Has anyone else had this kind of
problem? Have any solutions for this kind of bizarre problem?
Ron
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Posted by runsrealfast on September 28, 2007, 5:24 pm
> Some charitable organization did some repair work on our house and in
> the process, put up smoke alarms-- everywhere. Now for some unknown
> reason, and for no apparent cause, one of those bloody smoke alarms
> start going beep-- beep -- beep (long pause) beep-- beep-- beep-- beep
> (long psuse) beep-- beep....
>
> It's like a psychotic game of hide and go seek: I go running around
> the house trying to find out which of those electronic bastards is
> driving the family crazy with the noise, but whichever the device is,
> it stops and may not make any noise for another long stretch of time.
> Since there is no smoke, no fire, there shouldn't be any reason for
> smoke alarms to be doing that right? Has anyone else had this kind of
> problem? Have any solutions for this kind of bizarre problem?
>
> Ron
Go outside and beat the crap out of the dude inside the car out in
front of the house with the remote and big grin on his face.
In all seriousness, one of those is malfunctioning (at least it sounds
like it is). Try something simple like taking the batteries out and
putting them back in.
John
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Posted by Jeff Wisnia on September 28, 2007, 5:32 pm
Ron wrote:
> Some charitable organization did some repair work on our house and in
> the process, put up smoke alarms-- everywhere. Now for some unknown
> reason, and for no apparent cause, one of those bloody smoke alarms
> start going beep-- beep -- beep (long pause) beep-- beep-- beep-- beep
> (long psuse) beep-- beep....
>
> It's like a psychotic game of hide and go seek: I go running around
> the house trying to find out which of those electronic bastards is
> driving the family crazy with the noise, but whichever the device is,
> it stops and may not make any noise for another long stretch of time.
> Since there is no smoke, no fire, there shouldn't be any reason for
> smoke alarms to be doing that right? Has anyone else had this kind of
> problem? Have any solutions for this kind of bizarre problem?
>
> Ron
>
Good chance there's insects crawling into the detectors.
That's what's happened in our home from time to time and once I spotted
on of the little buggers crawling out of the detector I sprayed a little
RAID on the ceiling around the unit, which solved that problem.
Jeff
--
Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.
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Posted by willshak on September 28, 2007, 5:38 pm
on 9/28/2007 5:15 PM Ron said the following:
> Some charitable organization did some repair work on our house and in
> the process, put up smoke alarms-- everywhere. Now for some unknown
> reason, and for no apparent cause, one of those bloody smoke alarms
> start going beep-- beep -- beep (long pause) beep-- beep-- beep-- beep
> (long psuse) beep-- beep....
>
> It's like a psychotic game of hide and go seek: I go running around
> the house trying to find out which of those electronic bastards is
> driving the family crazy with the noise, but whichever the device is,
> it stops and may not make any noise for another long stretch of time.
> Since there is no smoke, no fire, there shouldn't be any reason for
> smoke alarms to be doing that right? Has anyone else had this kind of
> problem? Have any solutions for this kind of bizarre problem?
>
> Ron
>
>
Family include females? Hair spray can set off an alarm, especially when
the detector is between the sprayer and the CAC return.
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @
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Posted by HeyBub on September 28, 2007, 6:01 pm
Ron wrote:
> Some charitable organization did some repair work on our house and in
> the process, put up smoke alarms-- everywhere. Now for some unknown
> reason, and for no apparent cause, one of those bloody smoke alarms
> start going beep-- beep -- beep (long pause) beep-- beep-- beep-- beep
> (long psuse) beep-- beep....
>
> It's like a psychotic game of hide and go seek: I go running around
> the house trying to find out which of those electronic bastards is
> driving the family crazy with the noise, but whichever the device is,
> it stops and may not make any noise for another long stretch of time.
> Since there is no smoke, no fire, there shouldn't be any reason for
> smoke alarms to be doing that right? Has anyone else had this kind of
> problem? Have any solutions for this kind of bizarre problem?
What does the manufacturer say about this particular "beep code?"
The only thing that comes to mind is run-down battery.
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