>inb4 you're completely retardedThis one isn't at my house, so I can't just walk over there and mess with it, but I need to replace the battery. This thing is from the 2000s, so I'm wondering if the whole thing should be replaced. Do I just twist it, there's going to be a battery in there, and I just replace it? I do know that some of these are powered by the mains / grid power, but this one chirps every minute, and it's been doing this for years.What type of battery is this likely going to use?
Seriously, I will buy every single type of battery this thing could possibly have online and then see if any of them match.
>>2950278>How to Change Smoke Detector BatteryYou'd be better off learning how to swim in the deepest lake closest to you by yourself.
>>2950282I'm not a nigger. It's my grandma's house. She's the nigger. She's bot retarded and an actual pathological narcissist. My dad also owns that property, so we did some repairs to it today. That fucking chirping was driving me nuts, and I can't get it out of my head. She's literally never changed the battery, and it's been chirping since I was possibly 10, and I'm 25 now. I'm not bullshitting. I fucking hate my grandma.
>>2950283>I'm not a nigger. It's my grandma's house. She's the niggerNow, I'm pretty sure that's not how genetics work. >I fucking hate my grandma.I'd hate my grandma too if she didn't give me breakfast in bed every morning with chicken and waffles along with shrimp'n grits on the side and a nice big grape drank to go with it.
>>2950285>I'd hate my grandma tooShe was very abusive. I'm not going to give a sob story / trauma dump here. I had to grow up with her and my adoptive father. Short story, she didn't do anything for either of us and was just a financial parasite and would needlessly verbally and emotionally abuse us.
>>2950278After a bit of research, you're really supposed to replace a smoke alarm every 10 years. Once it gets orange like that, it's too old.
>>2950288Yes, just like how all nigger families are. You're a year younger than me. We're both grown ass men. You should already know how to cut someone off if they're being a piece of shit to you. I'm not sure why you'd even try to swap the batteries in a smoke detector for someone who abused you in your childhood. Stockholm syndrome much? Anyways, you're a nigger who still lives with his fucked up ass grandma, and the fact that you can't read the fucking embossing on the cover of the smoke detector proves my point that you are indeed a nigger. Put 1 and 1 together: The body of the module clearly tells you which direction you can twist to put on or take off the cover. The test button, hush button and the battery compartment are both labelled too. The answer is literally right in front of your fucking face and you're too retarded to see it.
>>2950301>You should already know how to cut someone off if they're being a piece of shit to you.Depending on your family, you can't just do this. I was at my grandma's house today because my dad who adopted me partly owns it and some renovation needed to be done at the front. I helped him with some of this work. I asked him why he does it, and the answer was simply because he partly owns the house.>Anyways, you're a nigger who still lives with his fucked up ass grandmaI live with my dad in a townhouse. I feel pretty shitty and my anxiety has been up pretty much the whole day after going to my grandma's house. Hearing the chirp of that smoke alarm and visiting my room brought me some nasty memories.I talked to my dad about it, and it's apparently wired up to mains / grid electricity, but it's still beeping. From my research, you're supposed to replace the smoke detector itself every 10 years, and I'm likely going to do this with my dad pretty soon.
>>2950301>I'm not sure why you'd even try to swap the batteries in a smoke detector for someone who abused you in your childhood.I'm not OP but I would prefer to inherit a not-burned-down house
>>2950343>I'm not OP but I would prefer to inherit a not-burned-down housethisthank you, anon
>>2950345Anyway yeah just replace the whole thing if it's super old, I'm probably gonna have to replace the fire alarms at my place too since I'm also poised to inherit it and my pap installed some sort of weird alarms roughly a decade ago that I only really know work because grandma accidentally microwaved a pancake for 40 minutes that one time instead of 4 minutes.Anyway I think it's because the smoke-detecting part of the alarm (like the sensor) goes bad after a while and that's why they gotta get replaced, something like that.
>This thing is from the 2000s, so I'm wondering if the whole thing should be replaced.yes, replace the whole thing>>2950343>>2950345smoke detectors don't prevent fires. if the smoke detector goes off, the house is burning down. grandma's not putting out the fire. she probably won't even call the fire department.
>>2950323>I talked to my dad about it, and it's apparently wired up to mains / grid electricity, but it's still beeping. From my research, you're supposed to replace the smoke detector itself every 10 years, and I'm likely going to do this with my dad pretty soon.It is wired to the mains with a battery backup so it will work it the power goes out. 99% of them that I have been around use a 9v battery. Take one with you and swap it in to stop the chirping until you can replace the entire thing.
>>2950411This, mine uses 2 AA batteries. You twist the main body then there is 3 prong small plug. The batteries are replaced by just sliding the battery door. Vacuuming or using air on it isn't a bad idea either to clean it.
>>2950278>PRESS HERE TO OPEN
>>2950278how could you be so stupid that u cant google some shit like this
>>2950278>go there>open it up>see what battery>go get battery>replace battery>high fives all aroundKYS for asking stupid questions.
>>2950289bullshit
>>2950531They have expiration dates on them. The sensors that detect smoke don't work as well with time.
>>2950531Big Alarm redesigned them so they don’t last more than 10 years. They even have internal counters so they start chirping at EOL even if they are still good. It’s a fucking racket.
>>2950278Ignore the racist white psyop, it's the hallway itself which is chirping and that's normal.
>>2950283So the half nigger is aware of the smoke detector, yet unable to do anything about it ... interesting.To full nigger obviously smoke detectors are like gods, inventions of the white man far beyond their imagination.>What is this>Smoke Detector>But there is no smoke>Well there WOULD BE smoke IF the house was on fire>But the house is not on fire
The best part of this whole board is reading retarded posts from retarded sub-humans. Give it a couple more generations and they'll be asking how to change a light bulb.
I mean, instead of opening the fucking thing and putting in new batteries, he decided to make a new thread here and wait for answers and even reply to to defend himself of not being a nigger. On an anonymous board. I dunno man. If I have kids I don't want them to grow up this helpless
>>2950288My gma used to hit me with cattleprods to wake me up. I learned to jump out of bed when i heard the squeaky door so then she greased it. I love my gma. Shes a bitch but very funny.
This whole thread and none of you know it's 9v it's always and only fucking 9v even in the mains powered ones it's 9v for backup, and yeah they chip when the 9v is low.
Idk if I even want kids anymore. This going to be their teachers and peers? Holy fuck I’m glad I live in Alaska. At least I just have to worry about rape and alcoholism with them and them not being this fucking retarded
>>2950278not reading the thread to see if anyone has said it due to all the probable racism, but those things usually have a 10 year life, so just replace it instead of fucking with it if you actually care about the homeowner
>>2950278this one has both an optical detector and a radiation based detector. the Americium in it has more or less dissipated beyond usefulness after 10 years or so, and the optical detector is probably hazy and dusty if you haven't regularly vacuumed and blew it. Change it all to a new higher end dual detector model across the entire place.
