Chirping Alarms
T he other night, Sheila and I were both awakened by a chirping alarm. We're in the midst of furnace problems so I immediately jumped out of bed to go investigate. I checked the smoke detector in the kitchen first... removed the battery... I still heard chirping so I headed to the hallway. I pulled the smoke detector off the ceiling in the laundry room and hallway.... removed the battery... then headed to the bathroom to relieve myself. While in the bathroom, I heard chirping again coming from the laundry room! My initial thoughts were of an episode of "Friends" when Phoebe has a chirping smoke detector in the middle of the night and removing the battery did not stop the chirping. Now I was thinking that maybe there was some truth to that comedic episode and perhaps there is a capacitor inside the smoke detector that is storing power even after I remove the battery. Now I was wondering how I might remedy that in the middle of the night without resorting to P