Poll of the Day > My smoke detector has been randomly going off for no reason

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Action53
11/30/20 9:19:42 AM
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Sometimes for a second, sometimes for 30 seconds, at least four times a day, it's driving me crazy. Nobody has been cooking, there's no smoke or fire, I've changed the battery. I'm ready to bury it in the yard

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Lokarin
11/30/20 9:26:10 AM
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usually that's the low battery signal if it's just a singular chirp - but you changed the batteries so it could be that its radiation discharged or something and you'd have to get a new one

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Xfma100
11/30/20 9:28:21 AM
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Action53 posted...
there's no smoke or fire

Are you sure?
It could be going off because you're smoking hot...
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SunWuKung420
11/30/20 10:35:54 AM
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Is it a carbon monoxide detector also?

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captpackrat
11/30/20 10:46:12 AM
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Many people don't realize it, but you should replace your smoke & carbon monoxide detectors every 10 years. Dust and stuff tends to build up inside, and the sensors become less effective over time.

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Action53
11/30/20 11:45:00 AM
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Lokarin posted...
usually that's the low battery signal if it's just a singular chirp - but you changed the batteries so it could be that its radiation discharged or something and you'd have to get a new one
It's not a chirp, it's straight up the alarm going off, for anywhere between a second and almost a minute. Still does it after a new battery

SunWuKung420 posted...
Is it a carbon monoxide detector also?
Just fire, nobody has felt extra sleepy or dizzy either

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adjl
11/30/20 12:23:32 PM
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captpackrat posted...
Many people don't realize it, but you should replace your smoke & carbon monoxide detectors every 10 years. Dust and stuff tends to build up inside, and the sensors become less effective over time.

Also many of them rely on a radioisotope and a radiation detector to detect smoke (smoke interferes with the radiation's ability to reach the sensor, triggering the alarm), and that radioisotope only lasts so long.

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BADoglick
11/30/20 12:33:31 PM
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Have you tried playing the blues with it

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Raddest_Chad
11/30/20 3:17:57 PM
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maybe it's an "everything's okay alarm" you bought by accident

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Mead
11/30/20 3:24:00 PM
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Carbon monoxide maybe? Does the room have windows you could open? Also as has already been said dust can be an issue. Ive had detectors going off erroneously before and Ive solved it by cleaning them with compressed air.

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DarkDestroyer12
12/06/20 4:17:03 AM
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My firealarm keeps doing the same thing, i really want to take a hammer and smash it to pieces, i have lived in the same house for 12 years and i dont think my house will burn down tommorow.
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