AboutDave Neuweiler Expertise The design and application of burglary and fire systems for homes and businesses. Helping alarm owners understand how their system works. Helping to troubleshoot false alarm problems. Questions about monitoring issues.
Experience Over a quarter century in the industry. Experience in installation, service, and monitoring centers. Training manager for a national protective services company; director of education and training for a national trade organization for for alarm dealers.
Question Dave:
I've been in my towhome for about 5 years and have been switching batteries of my smoke detectors each time I had a beep signaling "low battery".
Yesterday, one of the smoke detectors started to beep during the night at the pace of 1 beep/min.
I did change the battery but it did not fix the problem; then I did buy another Firex FADC smoke detector with a new battery but I still have a beep every minute as well as the red blink twice/min, signaling "low battery".
What would you suggest me to try next?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Fabien.
Answer Hello Fabien, and thanks for writing. I think you've taken prudent steps to solve the problem. I just want to verify a couple of things. But first, please follow the link below to a copy of the manual for your detector:
If I don't have the right one, you should have one in the box of the new detector you bought.
Take a look at page 7. You see, I don't see an indicator for the red light flashing twice a minute, so please verify the timing for me.
Also -- just a guess at this point -- do you have a carbon monoxide detector in the house? If so, please make sure the beeping isn't from a low battery in that device.
That's it for now; please follow up and we'll go another step if need be.
