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Offline Abe

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Smoke alarm battery change
« 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.

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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2013, 08:40:54 AM »
Good on you Dave - An important message  :thumb
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2013, 10:09:42 AM »
Something we don't have to worry about as ours is hard wired in.



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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #4 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
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2013, 11:47:14 AM »
Abe, glad to see your on the job 24/7  :grin
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #8 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



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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #9 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 !!! :||||

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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #10 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.. :|||| :||||
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Re: Smoke alarm battery change
« Reply #11 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.
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