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Kiddie hard wired fire/smoke alarms going off in the middle of the night. Dam things will levitate me out of bed and push my heart out of my chest...

Whole system is new by one year.  Has happened in the past and some air in a can seemed to help by blowing out the sensor.

This is just killing me with how often its happening lately.

No real answers via the Google searches.

WTF to do???

 
Our last home they were all connected as well via wire.....one went off, they all went off.

Problem was there was no fire, no smoke. Middle of day was not as bad as middle of night when i'm dead asleep.

Took a baseball bat to one of them... :lmao:

Turns out the one that had been chirping for low battery finally set them all off.  Once one chirps, replace that battery fast.

 
Did you do any work on the house AFTER they were intalled?   Had that issue with an Air B n B in St.George Utah...fire showed  up cause we couldn't get them off and it was the whole house system.... he said they see it with units installed BEFORE the work is completed on the house..they get contaminated and are chit from then on...throw em in the trash and buy new ones...if you are going to sand or paint in the house...take them off and put them in a bag first.  

 
Had this happen not even 6 months ago.  It was like 7pm.  Off to Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart to try and find the same brand so not to have to remount and rewire all of them right before bedtime.  

Replaced all 8 of them.

 
Oh ya it was just at the 2am time change this year............wake up...........

 
we had them in our old house, they were all wired together but still had batteries in them. If one went bad, it would freak the system out and they would go off randomly... try changing the batteries if there are any 

 
Realbadlarry said:
Did you do any work on the house AFTER they were intalled?   Had that issue with an Air B n B in St.George Utah...fire showed  up cause we couldn't get them off and it was the whole house system.... he said they see it with units installed BEFORE the work is completed on the house..they get contaminated and are chit from then on...throw em in the trash and buy new ones...if you are going to sand or paint in the house...take them off and put them in a bag first.  
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House has been a dusty mess since they were installed. Stucco, landscape, pavers, concrete etc.  Black counters fuggin suck. Sounds like I should just buy some new ones.

 
On my third lithium powered 10 year kidd in my apartment. The first one started going off after using some powerful cleaners around it. I killed it with a screwdriver by shorting the battery on the back in the slot provided. I bought a second one to replace it out of pocket assuming the fumes setting it off had been my fault. I just had a walk through to check alarms and it wouldn't quit chirping afterwards. I got so fed up that I killed it again. Ordered the third and I'm starting to think it's an issue with the kidd brand and I should try another brand. What do you think?

 
Fireballsocal said:
On my third lithium powered 10 year kidd in my apartment. The first one started going off after using some powerful cleaners around it. I killed it with a screwdriver by shorting the battery on the back in the slot provided. I bought a second one to replace it out of pocket assuming the fumes setting it off had been my fault. I just had a walk through to check alarms and it wouldn't quit chirping afterwards. I got so fed up that I killed it again. Ordered the third and I'm starting to think it's an issue with the kidd brand and I should try another brand. What do you think?
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Without @Realbadlarry comment, I was thinking the same. Eff Kiddi

 
Went through the same thing with my house and my moms house. The chirping had just started and I replaced all the batteries. That didn't help so I ended up replacing all 8 in both homes. I believe they have a life span of about 5 years, that was the last time I replace mine and my moms place was built in 2017.

 
I think sometimes they hard wire them to your electrical via a GFCI run. Usually your garage or outdoor GFCI. When it pops, the battery kicks in. Then once it dies its last breath is at midnight to wake you up.

I had this happen. I ended up pulling most of mine down. Then put one or two back with a battery. Now I try and check my GGCI more consistently.  It's also connected to my meat freezer. Which I have a temp sensor in.

Jonathan 

 
I have like 10 units in my house. I pushed the test button and all had good batteries. Just randomly the whole system would turn on. Turned out to be one more unit in an unsuspecting place. Battery was all the way dead. Once I replaced it the mysterious problem went away

 
Ours have done the same thing over the years, good thing the dog is deaf but it scares the hell out of the kids.   One thing I did learn was that if you can stand the noise, walk around to them as they are going off and look at the LED color & flashing pattern. One will be different than the rest - that's the one that started the commotion. At least you may be able to narrow it down to one or two bad actors rather than throwing them all out. 

 
I had all of the 'all linked together' types go off because of water leaking into a detector.

 
Funny story.  25 years ago my mother in law had recently moved in to a new place when we came to visit.. 

Had a beep happening every 25 minutes that had been driving her "extra" nutz for weeks. 

I went on the hunt. Checked all the smoke detectors,  changed all the batteries. Still beeps. Installed new detectors. Still beeps. 

Buddy stops by and it's driving him nuts to. He finds a smoke detector stuffed in a kitchen drawer.  Apparently whoever helped her move had grabbed the detectors out of her old place and stuffed them in a drawer when they unpacked her.😂

 
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