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Orrex

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18. If it's a battery backup for a hardwired device, then it's chirping because the battery is low

Reply to hamsterjill (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 3, 2017, 06:37 AM

Sep 2017

Not because the breaker is or isn't tripped.

If indeed a smoke detector is at issue, then the chirp may go one of two ways if left unaddressed: it will either stop chirping once the battery is completely dead, or it will continue to keep chirping indefinitely because it's drawing on AC power from the building.

Do you have a centralized alarm panel to go along with the smoke detectors? You might, or you might not. If you do, then it should tell you which device is at issue; if it indicates no problem, then at least you know that it's not the system's smoke detector but rather some additional, independent device.

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Help!!!! Smoke alarm chirp driving my neighbor nuts!!!! [View all] hamsterjill Sep 2017 OP

Maybe a battery smoke detector got tucked up there... Beartracks Sep 2017 #1

I find that playing Insane Clown Posse loud enough can eliminate the problem of the smoke alarm Not Ruth Sep 2017 #2

We may try that!!!! hamsterjill Sep 2017 #11

If you've physically removed all the parts of the alarm VMA131Marine Sep 2017 #3

It's very hard to be sure of the direction those chirps are coming from ... eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #4

I agree but we are certain where chirp is coming from. hamsterjill Sep 2017 #12

Exactly. I looked for 4 months once for the chirp. It sounded like it was coming from all over the Hoyt Sep 2017 #17

Are you sure that's where the sound is coming from? Orrex Sep 2017 #5

Agree that you may be incorrect as to where the sound is coming from Happyhippychick Sep 2017 #6

CRICKET! elleng Sep 2017 #7

Of COURSE! csziggy Jan 2020 #21

Do you have mutiple smoke detectors in your residence CentralMass Sep 2017 #8

Codes meant nothing to the builder of this house. hamsterjill Sep 2017 #10

The chirpy is coming from that location. hamsterjill Sep 2017 #9

If it's a battery backup for a hardwired device, then it's chirping because the battery is low Orrex Sep 2017 #18

Is there anything called a "capacitor" that might relate to this? hamsterjill Sep 2017 #13

We had something similar happen not too long ago and my husband had to finally get up and OregonBlue Sep 2017 #14

Thank you!!! hamsterjill Sep 2017 #15

Do you have an attached garage? Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2017 #16

Garage is attached and we think the smoke alarm is somehow connected to hamsterjill Sep 2017 #19

I know this is an old post shanti May 2019 #20