Advice Don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors today

[Bundal]

You're supposed to do it every time change day

 

[plot]

i do it whenever it beeps at me.

 

[fly]

Twice a year? WTF

 

[Amstel]

Twice a year? WTF

It doesn't matter. EVERYTHING IS FOR THE KIDS

 

[Coqui]

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Kidde-Wo...-and-Carbon-Monoxide-Alarm-21009667/203525030

 

[Josh]

Also if your smoke detector is older than 10 yrs, you should replace the entire unit as it loses sensitivity with age.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/when-to-replace-an-older-smoke-alarm/index.htm

 

[Bundal]

Also if your smoke detector is older than 10 yrs, you should replace the entire unit as it loses sensitivity with age.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/04/when-to-replace-an-older-smoke-alarm/index.htm

I got 2 new smokes and 1 new co this time around. $47 not bad.

 

[gee]

Just measured my bedroom smoke detector's current draw... 12uA. 450mAh energizer industrial alkaline / 12uA = 37500 hours = 1562.5 days = 4.2 years.

6 months? fuck that.

I imagine this varies from detector to detector though, possibly substantially.

 

[kiwi]

I'm still waiting till I need to change my clocks before I replace the batteries.

 

[APRIL]

We replaced ours a year ago. Sweet.

 

[fly]

Just measured my bedroom smoke detector's current draw... 12uA. 450mAh energizer industrial alkaline / 12uA = 37500 hours = 1562.5 days = 4.2 years.

6 months? fuck that.

I imagine this varies from detector to detector though, possibly substantially.

I love you

 

[Bundal]

Just measured my bedroom smoke detector's current draw... 12uA. 450mAh energizer industrial alkaline / 12uA = 37500 hours = 1562.5 days = 4.2 years.

6 months? fuck that.

I imagine this varies from detector to detector though, possibly substantially.

I think the concern is that people generally buy those 10 for $1 dollar store batteries with top notch Chinese sweat shop "quality control".

 

[plot]

but still, they beep when they're low. why change them before then?

 

[Josh]

I think the reason the campaign to change batteries in your smoke detector is because no one changes them and ignores the beeping sound. I've lost count how many homes and apartments I've been into where the smoke detectors were beeping.

 

[plot]

mine are annoying enough that i change them.

chances are the people who let them beep aren't going to change them anyways.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

but still, they beep when they're low. why change them before then?

conspiracy perpetrated by battery manufacturers

 

[plot]

conspiracy perpetrated by battery manufacturers

same bastards probably stole MH370... now we're onto something.

 

[Mrs. Valve]

mine are annoying enough that i change them.

chances are the people who let them beep aren't going to change them anyways.

We will change ours at three in the morning if they start beeping, it's that annoying.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

We will change ours at three in the morning if they start beeping, it's that annoying.

Do you have the style that beeps, then right as you are drifting off to sleep it beeps again just in time and in such a manner as to completely wake you up?

That's what we have

 

[Duke]

but still, they beep when they're low. why change them before then?

Because they always, ALWAYS, start their beeping between 1 and 5 AM