I have searched my house. I have checked all the ones that I have up. It is like a battery is low on one. I don't know where it is. Help!!!!
2006-10-30 01:43:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
We just put new batteries in yesterday.
2006-10-30 02:08:56 · update #1
Are you 100% sure it's a smoke alarm, could be a mobile phone, cordless house phone, alarm system, or a multitude of other electronic devices.
2006-10-30 03:52:03 · answer #1 · answered by jayktee96 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi, I had this very same thing happen to me a few years ago and I checked all the batteries in the house and still it was beeping, like, once every 15 minutes or something like that. I had purchased my house 2 years previous to that happening, and I never activated my built in alarm system (I just never had contacted ADT and signed up for the service).
Well, after a couple of days of me getting weary of the beeping alarm and not being able to get any sleep, I found out that the built in alarm system has a battery (one of those really big square batteries), and it was no longer keeping a charge. Once I disconnected it, the beeping turned into a blaring siren that was extremely loud throughout the house, so I reconnected the wiring. After all, an occasional beep was better than a blaring siren. So, after a few more horrible hours of trying to figure out what was going on, I finally found the built in fire alarm siren which was hard wired into the electrical wiring of the house and was located in one of the return air vents of the central air venting system. The reason why it was beeping now and then was because the battery is just its back up electrical system in case the electricity to the house gets turned off, and it was no longer keeping a charge.
So, after that long story, if you find out that it's the back up battery to a built in alarm system that you have, then your best bet is to replace that large back up battery (even if you don't subscribe to an alarm monitoring company it'll still alert you to a fire in the house).
If you don't want to do that, then you'll have to kill the electricity at the breaker box to your hard wired alarm system and disconnect the wiring from the alarm siren (once you find where it's located.) You'll need to cap off the ends of the wiring and disconnect the battery as well (the battery is usually located in the control box for the alarm system, in a closet most of the time). Also, to be thorough in your disconnecting of the alarm system, you should also remove any hard wired smoke detection devices and cap off the wires to those also. But, if you do this, then make sure that you replace them with the battery powered ones so that you're protected and up to code.
Best of luck!
2006-10-30 02:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by ●Gardener● 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would like a low battery light so I can look up at the detector and see a blinking low battery light instead of guessing which one has been beeping every 15-45 minutes. Otherwise I cannot find it and have to get up and down off a ladder for every one of them to replace a battery.
2013-12-08 01:11:03 · answer #3 · answered by Travis Udd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossibe to direct you without being there but I would recommend that you change ALL the batteries at one time. This way one (that may be needed someday) will not be accidently forgotten.
2006-10-30 01:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by we_are_legion99 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only solution is to change the batteries on all of them.
2006-10-30 01:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there should be a little test button on each press to see if it works if not maybe you should replace batteries in all of them to be safe
2006-10-30 01:52:25 · answer #6 · answered by pooh04781 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Checked the attic?
2006-10-30 01:46:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sometimes it's the ringing in your ears
2006-10-30 01:50:30 · answer #8 · answered by blackratsnake 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋