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Firex 120-1182B. There are seven detectors in the house - one indicated a need for battery

by Guest6041  |  12 years, 9 month(s) ago

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There are seven detectors in the house - one indicated a need for battery replacement.  Elected to replace all seven batteries assuring correct positive/negative connection, and complete door closure.  Immediately, all seven detectors began randomly chirping (they had been functioning perfectly before).  Removing and resetting batteries had zero effect - all still chirping.  Reset one of seven detectors by completely removing detector from base and removing all power, including battery.  Depressed test button for several seconds, then reconnected device to base and replaced battery.  All seven still chirping.  Can it possibly be that all seven 9V energizer batteries are bad?  Please help.

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  1. amomipais82
    Hi,
    I am NOT an expert on alarms, rather on how to secure your home without alarms. Unfortunately that also includes these types of alarms. Yours is about the 10th inquiry of the exact same nature I've received in the past month.

    You won't like this, but I know from experience precisely what I would do. I'd rip the blasted things out completely and replace them all with stand-alone (battery-powered) combination smoke/carbon monoxide detectors. [If you do that, however, do NOT get heat detectors, just smoke. It can get very hot in the home in the summer if you're on vacation.) That's my solution. Not inexpensive, but I have YET to find a hardwired detector system that works reliably for any decent period of time.

  2. Guest6418
    Maybe the battery issue? If you look at the back of the smoke alarm. It clearly says " EVEREADT 522 or 1222, or DURACELL MN 1604, or ULTRA LIFE U9VL-J".
  3. Guest8930
    check those codes, gang!!
    any upgrades require hard wired detectors here in Denver
  4. Guest5403

    I guess that can be a possible reason, i would advice you to use some other brand. As simply replacing batteries cannot solve the problem, you will have to make sure that the batteries you are using are fresh, and are not rechargeable, spent money on some good batteries, it would lessen alot of your tension.

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