12-08-2015, 12:07 PM
I had the same problems! The hard wired smoke alarms (which weren't that old) would go off FOR NO REASON. All the time. Because they were wired together it was impossible to know which unit the "culprit" was, I began disconnecting them one at a time, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
Eventually every hard-wired smoke alarm in the house wound up getting tossed into the garbage. I replaced them all with these:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002N865
No false alarms...yet, though the battery doesn't seem to last a full year before it starts making that chirping sound (always... ALWAYS AT 3 AM).
Smoke alarms are here for our safety, why do they seemingly purposely design them in such a manner that we want to take the batteries out or toss them?
Eventually every hard-wired smoke alarm in the house wound up getting tossed into the garbage. I replaced them all with these:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00002N865
No false alarms...yet, though the battery doesn't seem to last a full year before it starts making that chirping sound (always... ALWAYS AT 3 AM).
Smoke alarms are here for our safety, why do they seemingly purposely design them in such a manner that we want to take the batteries out or toss them?