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home fires not burning
Nov. 25th, 2018 07:55 pmI got a new smoke detector in my place in July - the old one was like 20 years old and finally died. Since then everything was working fine until two weeks ago, when the detector went off once for no reason at 7am. I thought it might be dust so I vacuumed it. Then last night at 2am the damned thing beeped again for no reason.
I thought it might be humidity, even though it wasn't overly humid at 2am, so I did some research, and one thing that popped was that for the hard-wired smoke detectors (instead of the battery ones) is that they can be triggered when the power company switches to a new grid. And given that both alarms happened on the hour (directly on the hour) makes me wonder if that's it.
And I don't know what to do about it.
On the one hand, it only goes off once. Then again, getting woken from a deep sleep by the fire alarm is not pleasant.
We'll see what happens next.
I thought it might be humidity, even though it wasn't overly humid at 2am, so I did some research, and one thing that popped was that for the hard-wired smoke detectors (instead of the battery ones) is that they can be triggered when the power company switches to a new grid. And given that both alarms happened on the hour (directly on the hour) makes me wonder if that's it.
And I don't know what to do about it.
On the one hand, it only goes off once. Then again, getting woken from a deep sleep by the fire alarm is not pleasant.
We'll see what happens next.