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DIY & Home Improvement

Adsos Letter

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7. Ours look quite similar

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #6)

Sat Jul 12, 2014, 08:46 PM

Jul 2014

When the battery loses enough juice it will begin to squawk; fairly long intervals at first, with shorter and shorter intervals as the power decreases.
On ours, the light is green when fully functional.

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fire alarm problem (maybe ?) [View all] steve2470 Jul 2014 OP

Does your fire alarm have batteries? Kaleva Jul 2014 #1

ok I'll have to climb up there and check that, thanks ! nt steve2470 Jul 2014 #2

It's not by chance also a CO2 detector, is it? Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2014 #3

I don't know steve2470 Jul 2014 #4

If that thing is hard wired it could very well be Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2014 #5

Ok I climbed up my stepladder to look at it steve2470 Jul 2014 #6

Ours look quite similar Adsos Letter Jul 2014 #7

hmmm I'll try again tomorrow steve2470 Jul 2014 #8

end to the smoke detector saga (not fire alarm, as I found out) steve2470 Jul 2014 #9

Smoke detectors will trigger if they get dusty Nac Mac Feegle Jul 2014 #10