{"id":152,"date":"2011-04-30T22:47:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T03:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyville.org\/xblkx\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:47:15","slug":"pet-peeve-othe-day-smoke-detector-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Pet peeve o&#8217;the day: smoke detector batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got woken up again early in the morning by &#8220;YASD&#8221;: Yet Another Smoke Detector chirping away at a failing battery. WTF?! Why do these things even <em>have<\/em> batteries? They&#8217;re wired to the house so a 1 Farad cap in each would save a dozen 9V alkaline batteries a year and lots of aggravation!<\/p>\n<p>And the one time I <em>did<\/em> have a fire and the house was full of smoke, not a one of them worked. *I* was the smoke detector. They quit detecting smoke after about 5 years and the only way you can know is to spray them with a can of &#8220;smoke &#8230;check&#8221; and see if they go off. The test button is worse than useless: it&#8217;s completely misleading people into thinking it&#8217;s working when it isn&#8217;t. I had no idea smoke detectors expire until after the fire. Good thing I sleep lightly. When I replaced them, I had to change all the connectors because they&#8217;re all proprietary designs. It&#8217;s also funny that one is not required in the area where a fire is most likely to break out &#8212; in the basement where the furnace and gas hot water heater are&#8230; go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got woken up again early in the morning by &#8220;YASD&#8221;: Yet Another Smoke Detector chirping away at a failing battery. WTF?! Why do these things even have batteries? They&#8217;re wired to the house so a 1 Farad cap in each would save a dozen 9V alkaline batteries a year and lots of aggravation! And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}