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Title: Something's chirping
Post by: pinstriper on August 25, 2016, 11:21:03 PM
I think it's the propane detector near the floor. That has its own battery, right ?

Title: Something's chirping
Post by: charliem on August 25, 2016, 11:33:43 PM
[quote timestamp="1472178063" source="/post/24165/thread" author="@pinstriper"]I think it's the propane detector near the floor. That has its own battery, right ?

[/quote][font size="3"]The propane detector runs off the main 12V battery, but I think it will make sounds when the main battery is low. The smoke detector on the ceiling has its own battery and will chirp when low. [/font]
Title: Something's chirping
Post by: djsamuel on August 26, 2016, 04:01:22 PM
Don't the propane detectors tend to go bad after 4 years or so and start making noise?
Title: Something's chirping
Post by: pinstriper on August 26, 2016, 04:39:29 PM
I pulled the smoke alarm last night and replaced the 9v, tested. No further chirping.

Dunno why I didn't localize it to the ceiling instead of the floor, other than, you know, it was 115 inside the box and I wasn't interested in sticking around much to listen.
Title: Something's chirping
Post by: drake on September 20, 2016, 02:29:01 AM
When the main battery goes low, our propane detector goes off with the same alarm as if it detected propane...I'd kind of like to slap the engineer that came up with that plan.

I wired a toggle switch for it and pit in a closed case so it can't get bummed off. While we really try to keep the battery from ever going too low anyway, it's just Murphy's Law that if it happens it will happen at 3am.