Smoke alarms & humidity

[Devany]

Well, Liz, you are not alone. Two of ours (we have 9 on different levels and in the garage) went off Sunday night... five different times (the same two). I do think it has to do with humidity, even if that night that they went off it may not have been humid... the humidty may work its way in and eventually cause problems. Ours finally stopped and did not come on again last night, which was actually more humid.
Of course when even one goes off, it is prudent to go around and check all of them and make sure nothing really is burning. As a fire chief's daughter, I have a nose for smoke that smells it before they even go off for genuine smoke reasons.

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Originally posted by Liz

Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!
They all went off again last night! Twice!! Then each time they'd stop all by themselves - weird. Thank goodness there were no guests here at the time.

Mike unplugged them all (since they weren't blinking their code that's supposed to let you know which one started all the racket) and took out the batteries and then after our hearts stopped racing, we got some more sleep. Not particularly humid this time (we've been closing up at night), no smoke, no aerosols, no vog, newish batteries...

So my question is this: Does anybody know of any brand of smoke detector that will last for at least a year WITHOUT going off for NO reason? In other words, is there a reliable brand that won't scare the bejeezees out of our guests and me?

aloha, Liz

"The best things in life aren't things."

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Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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