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 I noticed you've had several inquiries regarding smoke alarms that chirp about 4 times once every 10-15 seconds. This happens randomly during all hours of the day and night. Firex model AD.
Do you have any updates on causes or solutions to this issue?
Thanks
Mickey
Answer Hello Mickey, and thanks for writing.
I have noticed quite a few smoke detector questions of late. I have no idea why -- and I have no new ideas about causes or solutions.
When I get questions such as these, I search for the owner's manual online. That gives me any diagnostic clues that the detector might provide. For example, according to the manual, FIREX AD gives 4 beeps per second when the test button is pressed. I'm assuming you're not doing that.
So, aside from the standard advice to ensure there's a good battery, and to clean the detector, there's little else to do besides change the detector out.
