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In my experience, replacing the battery doesn’t fix this problem. Only putting the fire alarm in the freezer actually takes care of the problem
that means it’s time for a new smoke detector because the Americium has depleted to a point it’s no longer reactive.
can’t afford one? go to any fire station, they will hook you up and make sure you have enough for your house.
Yeah that or the freezer.
Whoosh
My parents have a smoke detector which blinks a red LED every ten minutes or so. It’s also placed in the hallway between my room and the toilet. Because that hallway is quite short and a little bit of light still came out of my room, I eventually started just not turning on the lights in the hallway, to kind of preserve the sleepiness.
Well, eventually I walked down that hallway in darkness and was right in front of the smoke detector when it decided to blink, shortly tinting everything around me faintly red. Fucking hell, that spooked me…
Why do short flashes like that work so well in movies or shows? Like imagine an anime where they can create such an eerie moment by flsshing a few frames of something fucked up on a normal moment. I think jujutsu kaisen did it and its so cool. Instead of just showing a demon in plane sight you do it like that. Add some creepy music and youre set for a great scene.
That mean the smoke detector need to be tested. Push the button for testing and the light, after, will be a hard green, no flashling.
No my smoke detector had an ‘operational light’. It flashed every 30 seconds or so, so you knew it didn’t have a dead CPU or so.
Not if it is a photoelectric smoke detector, which is the only type you should have unless you got a good reason for ionisation smoke detector.
The blinking is the smoke detector checking for smoke particles.photoelectric detectors use infrared LEDs. and they are inside the detector, shielded so stray light will not cause any problems.
Any red LED you see on a smoke detector is for statuses, not detecting
Thank you for the correction, you’re right. I got it mixed up with the status LED that some/most(?) smoke detectors have that will periodically blink to show that it’s active.
Regardless, a smoke alarm blinking red is to be expected, and doesn’t mean that it needs to be tested. Most of them will make a loud ping to notify the user that it requires attention, as you can’t expect people to notice the blinking LED alone.
it would be nice if there were smoke detectors that didn’t have flashing lights during normal operation.
Well, the problem with that is that a completely dead smoke detector does also not blink
perhaps a steady faint green glow?
I love these kinds of comments. Either top satire or bottom IQ.
Porque no Los dos
Because one implies ignorance and the other knowingness. One person can’t be both.
I’m knowingly ignorant, so there is that.
And don’t you try to inform me.
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Sorry bud, you are the bottom in this case
So, one got the reference to the meme and i’m the bottom…
Bless your soul
Btw, i’m not your bud, pal
I’m not your pal, guy
Ok, ntsc.
Well done you totally got it
i need an mp3 of the noise for my text/ringer notifications
One of my buddies has a Stream deck button for it. Absolutely drives everyone bonkers
My grandma thought that there was a very intelligent mouse living in her hallway once. It would occasionally do a little squeak at her but never be found. She was a bit cross when she learned the truth about her mousy friend.
I also know of an older couple that was convinced the noise came from an earwig queen(!?!) that lived inside their living room table. Much more concerning story, both if true or false.
I sometimes hear a sound reminiscent of a rodent scratching in my room. Probably pressure shenanigans in the freezer.
Y-yeah haha
Guys it just does that
Reminds me of hopping into Mum’s car after several months of not being in it to hear the distinctive grinding metal sound of a bearing on its last legs - asked Mum and my sister when the car started making that noise and got told it always does that…
Ah this was me when I bought my first car… It was super cheap though. But it had just passed the EU control, so I thought it was safe to drive.
Anyway, when I was driving my niece, and her friend, the fucking break disk rusted lose! I drove them fucking carefully to the train, and carefully drove home.
I called my nieces father and confessed, and I asked him how to replace the breaks. He had never done it before, but he’s the kind of guy who reads something once and he remembers it. Anyway I drove to a shop and bought new break disks and pads, and some tools, and drove fucking carefully home.
It took me 3 days to change the breaks, mainly because of the rust, I got a neighbor to help push the break piston back in, as the tool I bought was to weak. To top it of, I have either fibriomyalgia or rheumatism, and my fingers hurt for weeks after, even though it was the middle of the summer.
The back breaks needs to be changed now. But I can’t do it in the winter, I can’t change the breaks in the back when it’s below zero outside. Wife just wants to buy a new (used) car, but our budget, due to needing a 6, 7 or 8 seater, would give us the same age, same length driven car. And we need to cars…
Idk of this is satire of the meme on 4chan but I recently saw that there’s a meme about black people not changing the battery on their fire alarms. I’m not sure why it was specifically black people though
It ain’t just on 4chan i see it all the time in various short form skits on reels, yt shorts, etc.
I read the article someone shared and apparently it was a common joke and a recognized thing in black communities before breaking into mainstream
My job gives me access to lots of people’s homes. It’s kind of true now that I think about it. Not exclusively but certainly more than average.
It doesn’t feel terribly surprising that preventative care for uncommon emergencies would be less common or considered less important in a culture shaped by externally created and enforced poverty
