Smoke alarms
 

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms. I currently have alarms
with a built in light, tho I doubt the light would do any good in a real
fire.

My current smoke alarms have 2-9v each. I see some use just a AA battery.

Not about to have them hard wired in, so that option is out. Looking for
suggestions on decent alarms.

Thx.

Bobby

Smoke alarms
 

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:44:53 -0500, "Bobby R."
wrote:

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms. I currently have alarms
with a built in light, tho I doubt the light would do any good in a real
fire.

My current smoke alarms have 2-9v each. I see some use just a AA battery.

Not about to have them hard wired in, so that option is out. Looking for
suggestions on decent alarms.

Thx.

Bobby


FWIW, I just upgraded mine to a new wireless model. I have one combo
smoke/co on each floor (3) and one smoke only in each bedroom (4).
These run one year+ on 2 AA alkalines. And the interesting part is
that they are all talking to one another wirelessly and they even
talk.
If/when an alarm is triggered they will actually identify the
detection and location (i.e.: carbon monoxide detected in basement .
.. .) Mine are First Alert model SCO500 series. Not too cheap but
pretty much a one-time investment.

Happy searching.

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Smoke alarms
 

On 12/15/2014 07:43 AM, bobmct wrote:

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms. I currently have alarms
with a built in light, tho I doubt the light would do any good in a real
fire.

My current smoke alarms have 2-9v each. I see some use just a AA battery.

Not about to have them hard wired in, so that option is out. Looking for
suggestions on decent alarms.

FWIW, I just upgraded mine to a new wireless model. I have one combo
smoke/co on each floor (3) and one smoke only in each bedroom (4).
These run one year+ on 2 AA alkalines. And the interesting part is
that they are all talking to one another wirelessly and they even
talk.
If/when an alarm is triggered they will actually identify the
detection and location (i.e.: carbon monoxide detected in basement .
. .) Mine are First Alert model SCO500 series. Not too cheap but
pretty much a one-time investment.

Are you sure about your "one-time investment" assertion? Many newer CO
detectors (I'm not sure about the smoke detectors) "expire" after seven
or ten years and cannot be reactivated afterwards.

Perce

Smoke alarms
 

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:44:53 -0500, "Bobby R."
wrote:

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms.

I saw recently that alarms now come with a sealed lithium battery,
said to last 10 years. Detectors should be replace every ten years.

"...long-life lithium battery that is warranted by the manufacture to
ensure a decade's worth of protection! This effectively translates to
ten years of constant and undisturbed coverage."

YMMV

Smoke alarms
 

On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:24:34 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:

On 12/15/2014 07:43 AM, bobmct wrote:

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms. I currently have alarms
with a built in light, tho I doubt the light would do any good in a real
fire.

My current smoke alarms have 2-9v each. I see some use just a AA battery.

Not about to have them hard wired in, so that option is out. Looking for
suggestions on decent alarms.

FWIW, I just upgraded mine to a new wireless model. I have one combo
smoke/co on each floor (3) and one smoke only in each bedroom (4).
These run one year+ on 2 AA alkalines. And the interesting part is
that they are all talking to one another wirelessly and they even
talk.
If/when an alarm is triggered they will actually identify the
detection and location (i.e.: carbon monoxide detected in basement .
. .) Mine are First Alert model SCO500 series. Not too cheap but
pretty much a one-time investment.

Are you sure about your "one-time investment" assertion? Many newer CO
detectors (I'm not sure about the smoke detectors) "expire" after seven
or ten years and cannot be reactivated afterwards.

Yeah. That's what it said on the box. I tried unplugging my CO for
the 6 or more months I don't use heat,, and it gives you enough time to
get to another electrical outlet and then it starts screeching.

So I took the batteries out and it was silent, but I still didn't know
if I'd stopped its clock or not.

What do you think, time spent with no AC and no batteries counts against
the N years, or not?

Perce

Smoke alarms
 

Bobby R. wrote:
Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms. I currently have alarms
with a built in light, tho I doubt the light would do any good in a real
fire.

My current smoke alarms have 2-9v each. I see some use just a AA battery.

Not about to have them hard wired in, so that option is out. Looking for
suggestions on decent alarms.

Thx.

Bobby

We had an alarm go off a few years ago, and called the Fire Department.
They responded with a lot of equipment and concluded it was a false
alarm, and remarked that the alarm I had was prone to false alarms. I
asked what the best alarms were. They said First Alert smoke detectors,
and a Nighthawk carbon monoxide detector, which is a plug in device.
That was some years ago, and things may have changed, but I think a
company that is making good products now, will probably still be making
good products in ten or twenty years.

Smoke alarms
 

On 12/15/2014 10:41 AM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:44:53 -0500, "Bobby R."
wrote:

Suggestions for battery operated smoke alarms.

I saw recently that alarms now come with a sealed lithium battery,
said to last 10 years. Detectors should be replace every ten years.

"...long-life lithium battery that is warranted by the manufacture to
ensure a decade's worth of protection! This effectively translates to
ten years of constant and undisturbed coverage."

YMMV


That's what I got last year. I'll be lucky to be around in 10 years.
Carbon monoxide alarms, unlike smoke alarms, rely on a chemical change
and must be replaced after several years.