• @[email protected]
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    261 year ago

    At 4 AM this morning I learned there was a smoke alarm in my office. Also that the beep it makes when the battery is dead is loud as fuck. Loud enough to wake me from a dead sleep in another room.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        That’s because battery voltage drops with temperature, and most houses are coldest around that time.

        • @cybersandwich
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          31 year ago

          That’s something that never occurred to me but it makes perfect sense.

      • @ohlaph
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        21 year ago

        It had always been so with me. First time it was 1sm, second was 4am.

        I had it go off recently, but it was about 7:30am! I was surprised.

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      91 year ago

      That’s the right amount of loudness, considering its purpose. Hope you were able to replace the battery with a minimum of misery.

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        51 year ago

        I suppose that’s a good point. I definitely would prefer that to burning to death. I just wish the dead battery noise could be set at a different volume to the “wake the fuck up, you’re about to die!” noise.