On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 8:00:29 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 23:18:31 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 22:28:35 -0400, wrote:

In my opinion, there are certain things that should NOT be electric.
Locks are at the top of the list!
They are not mains powered. They are battery operated, and they have
a very irritating low battery warning

Ok, I guess that's a little better. But where are the batteries (indoors
or outdoors). I'll assume they are indoors. So what happens if a battery
dies? how do you get in to change the battery? I know you mentioned the
low batt alarm, but what if that alarm sounds while you're in vacation,
and by the time you get home the batt is dead? Or what if the alarm goes
off during the night and you dont have any spare batts on hand. Do you
have to go to a 24 hour Walmart at 4am?

I still dont think I like that design.
You are entitled to your opinion. The battery is accesses from inside
The low battery alarm goes off with quite a bit of battery life still
left and no power is used except to open the lock, so very unlikely to
"go dead" while you are gone, and intelligent people keep spare
batteries on hand for "critical" applications.

"no power is used except to open the lock"

What powers the battery monitoring circuitry and the alarm?