Why do smoke detector batteries fail at 3 am?

Bakster

Yup, probably the same one. We had two storms this summer that knocked out power. The first one was the worst. Some areas lost power for several days. You don't realize how much you depend on it until it is gone. No power means no lights, no internet, no TV. All the usual diversions. So whats to do? Read by candle?  Blah.

Unlike, back in the day, when the power goes out, most of us have a smart phone that has more capabilities than the average house of the 1980s did with the power on. You just can't cook or heat. But radio, television, telephone, music, news, movies, books are at your fingertips. Even a flashlight.

Greg

I've always been curious which hallucinogen the person who designed the 9v battery drawer on those things was using at the time.

 

If you find them, please, please, please share the address.

Somehow, a government contract is involved in the 9v stupidity.

mfsob

Greg

I've always been curious which hallucinogen the person who designed the 9v battery drawer on those things was using at the time. 

If you find them, please, please, please share the address.

Somehow, a government contract is involved in the 9v stupidity.

At least the slide drawer is easier to deal with than the little snaps that some old 9v connectors use.

Rob Gronovius

 

 

Bakster

Yup, probably the same one. We had two storms this summer that knocked out power. The first one was the worst. Some areas lost power for several days. You don't realize how much you depend on it until it is gone. No power means no lights, no internet, no TV. All the usual diversions. So whats to do? Read by candle?  Blah.

 

 

 

Unlike, back in the day, when the power goes out, most of us have a smart phone that has more capabilities than the average house of the 1980s did with the power on. You just can't cook or heat. But radio, television, telephone, music, news, movies, books are at your fingertips. Even a flashlight.

 

Until your phone goes dead,unless you have a solar charger.

I remember the 9 volt from when I used to have a transister radio like most people.  When I was young, oh so long ago, I would listen to a radio station out of New York City and one of the disc jockys had a program called the pillow talk club where you would listen to the radio through your pillow when you weresupposed to be sleeping, that way your parents didn'y know what you were soing.  Many times I would wake up the next school day to find my radio dead and had to ask for a new battery.  Eventually I got caught and had to earn money somehow to pau for the batteries.

Evidently the radios were the primary reason the 9 voolts were created because the transister radios were not very big but vry popular.  Many companies in the states and other countries produced them and still do.

Some metal detectors still use 9v.  Just like everything else that uses them, battery life really sucks.

Most metal detectors that use AA's, usually 8 of them, have close to 40 hour run times.

Mine started up the other night, I rushed downstairs to see where the blazing inferno was....nothing. I reset it and the next night it did it again. After three nights of this I took and hammer and.....well its been peaceful......

Even worse is finding NO batteries in your drawers. I've had this happen a few times.

Some guys at a certain age may have that same problem but for different rasons.