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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Abe on March 31, 2013, 08:03:02 AM

Title: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Abe on March 31, 2013, 08:03:02 AM

Please read, this may/may not effect you directly.

Taken from Fire Rescue New South Wales internal webpage:-

"The Duracell national campaign, supported by FRNSW, other state fire services and the Australasian Fire & Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC), uses daylight savings as a trigger to remind people to also change their smoke alarm batteries and check their smoke alarms are working when they change their clocks on 7 April."


Any questions just PM.

Cheers
Dave

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: BigTed on March 31, 2013, 08:34:25 AM

Interesting. Here in WA they use April Fool's Day (1/4) to trigger the change. Probably because we're foolish as we don't have daylight savings here.

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Sicman on March 31, 2013, 08:40:54 AM

Good on you Dave - An important message  :thumb
 :slvr13

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: alans1100 on March 31, 2013, 10:09:42 AM

Something we don't have to worry about as ours is hard wired in.

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Tipsy on March 31, 2013, 10:17:05 AM

Quote from: alans1100 on March 31, 2013, 10:09:42 AM

Something we don't have to worry about as ours is hard wired in.

same here
Tipsy

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Abe on March 31, 2013, 10:25:29 AM

"hard wired" smoke alarms, that's music to my ears  :rofl :rofl :rofl.  Hard wired smoke alarms are here to stay with all new buildings and renovations codes.

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Sabie on March 31, 2013, 11:47:14 AM

Abe, glad to see your on the job 24/7  :grin

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Biggles on March 31, 2013, 12:16:03 PM

The hard wired ones have 9 volt back up batteries in case there is a 240 volt power failure and a fire at the same time.

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: JuST Peter on April 01, 2013, 08:14:43 PM

Now let me get this straight....if it's hard wired in and you get a short in the wiring, and a fire starts, knocking all the power out, the fire/smoke alarm still depends on a 9 volt battery??
yeah, there's logic in there somewhere, but...... :think1



oops! Biggs just said that eh

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: ST2UP on April 01, 2013, 09:32:32 PM

Got in early and did our 3 today....240/9 volt, couldn't wait for day light savings as a 9 volt went flat at 2am this morning......the beep ever 1 minute drove the dog captain crackers !!! :||||

 :beer

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Brock on April 01, 2013, 11:32:03 PM

Had a smoke alarm, but took it down. Every time the Mrs fries up Chillies the alarm would go off. Chillies travels faster n smoke.. :|||| :||||

Title: Re: Smoke alarm battery change
Post by: Biggles on April 02, 2013, 02:36:18 PM

Quote from: Brock on April 01, 2013, 11:32:03 PM

Had a smoke alarm, but took it down. Every time the Mrs fries up Chillies the alarm would go off. Chillies travels faster n smoke.. :|||| :||||

They are radio-active, and trigger the tiny radio active sensor in the alarm because it reaches critical mass.