"RickH" wrote in message

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 *******s 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

It's not bizarre, the battery check is failing in one of the units,
smoke det. batteries should be changed twice yearly when you change
your clocks for daylight time. Our fire dept gives away free
batteries (first come first served) twice a year.



This has always struck me as a waste of batteries and a contributor to
mercury in the environment. I will never be an environmentalist, but
throwing out perfectly good batteries is quite a waste. Hell, the units
even beep at you when the battery needs to be replaced. Do you replace
light bulbs twice a year?

But, I guess I'm one of the modernized users here. My 2007 van has an oil
life monitor thing on it and I don't change the oil until it says it's time,
this time I got 9,000 miles out of the oil before the light came on.

No sense in throwing things out when they're fully functional.