Why not just toss out the present smoke detector and get a $4.95 one from
walmart that the battery will last a year. any one that is eating the
battery in such a short time is defective anyway and probably would not go
off in an emergency anyhow. trying to conserve batteries in one is stupid
in my estimation, + a screw up could easily cost your life. John T.
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Lenroc wrote:

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:00:46 +0000, JOHN T wrote:

not good....some electrical fires that cause total distruction of the
home cause the electicity to go off long before smoke would get to the
bedroom. If you have a death wish go ahead and run the smoke detector off
110. John

But the OP already says he has batteries that last a few months, and is
just looking for a way to continually recharge them. Russel just mentioned
that the OP could just feed off the wall power until it goes away, then
switch over to batteries.

If the power went out for a few months (long enough to drain the
batteries), you'd think that the OP would have other issues (like... not
having power) to worry about.

The only thing I'd worry about is making sure that if the smoke alarm _is_
working off batteries, to have some sort of signal/alarm going off to
alert you to the fact, to eliminate the risk that only the smoke alarm
would lose power...




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