Re: That damn smoke detector

On 17 apr, 20:48, Robert Latest <boblat...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So a while ago this thing starts emitting a very short, obnoxious chirp
every fifteen minutes. Oh no. It's that time again: Battery going flat.
And my neighbor from whom I usually borrow the ladder not home. Goof
thing the wife ain't home neither because she probably would have
divorced me after seeing me balance on top of a precarious stack of
unfit furniture to take the damn thing down.

Farnell stock lithium-manganese 9V batteries in a PP3 can - every ten
years of so I buy a batch and stick them in my smoke detectors. It's
still a chore, but a much lower frequency chore than with regular
alkaline cells.

The order code for the part is 299-390 and they are 10.30 euro
apiece ...

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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