So a while ago this thing starts emitting a very short, obnoxious chirp every fifteen minutes. Oh no. It's that time again: Battery going flat. And my neighbor from whom I usually borrow the ladder not home. Goof thing the wife ain't home neither because she probably would have divorced me after seeing me balance on top of a precarious stack of unfit furniture to take the damn thing down.
robert
Thou shalt replace those batteries regularly. We have a check list for this stuff, new ones for all detectors in March and in September.
In my case I have to bemoan the stupidity of placing smoke detectors in a kitchen. I've since taken the TWO that were in my kitchen out, put standard C0 detectors in and not had a problem.
The only smoke detectors are now in the bedrooms. None in the kitchen, dining or living room.
Farnell stock lithium-manganese 9V batteries in a PP3 can - every ten years of so I buy a batch and stick them in my smoke detectors. It's still a chore, but a much lower frequency chore than with regular alkaline cells.
The order code for the part is 299-390 and they are 10.30 euro apiece ...
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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