Chirping alarms
Our rig has been in storage for the past year and when I went to prep it for an upcoming trip, I heard the infamous smoke-alarm chirping coming from it. Figuring the batteries were dead, I pulled the...
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Skibane wrote:NamMedevac 70 wrote:
On very rare occasions my alarms will shriek like a dying bird and then nothing for another two weeks or so. I gave up on trying to locate the bird. No kidding.
The sensors used in propane and CO detectors aren't very selective about what they'll detect.
Lots of things other than propane or CO will set them off - Hair spray, nail polish (and nail polish remover), just about anything containing alcohol...
The gases produced by unsealed lead-acid batteries can also set them off, particularly while the batteries are being recharged.
Exactly how we found that our batteries were going bad. One of the alarms kept going off, and I can't remember now which one, even after replacing it because it was old. I kept smelling this strong sulfur/acid smell and opened up the battery compartment. Oh man!!! An inspection of the batteries showed they were leaking, bulging, and bad. Replaced them and no more alarms.
