I think smoke alarms should be improved with the addition of one of these



Then when we have lots of them around our home we can set each one to a different number that determines the number of beeps we get when it starts to report low battery.

The four switch version would allow one beep right up to sixteen beeps and would be so helpful when trying to determine which unit has a low battery, one could write a small number using a magic marker, on each unit too.

 

Good idea. I am hearing impaired. We have multiple smoke/fire and CO monitors in the house. When one starts to beep I have no idea which one is beeping.

 

The county in its wisdom, has asked us to replace the smoke alarms with CO2+smoke detectors that all talk to each other so when one goes off, they all sound. This is in an old house so there is no wiring to connect them together. We must invest in wireless alarms. They will be around at some point to inspect them.

 

Good idea. I am hearing impaired. We have multiple smoke/fire and CO monitors in the house. When one starts to beep I have no idea which one is beeping.

It's a real pain. We have no stairs, a southwest stucco ranch house and there are like ten in the main house. I did "plan" once that when I replace a battery in one of them I would replace the batteries in all of them because they'd be about the same age. That way when one starts to report low battery just do them all without even caring which one it was, once you do that they are all likely to start to expire at around the same time.

But I'm lazy so it never happened!