Comments on: The Safest Thing You’ll Read All Day http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:36:03 -0500 hourly 1 By: Ruut http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-75891 Ruut Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:16:18 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/#comment-75891 Neglected to mention, the false alarms were triggered merely by walking into a room, turning on the light, realising you meant to be somewhere else, or what you wanted was not in the room, and turning the light off, TOO SOON. Please, for your own sanity, avoid. Neglected to mention, the false alarms were triggered merely by walking into a room, turning on the light, realising you meant to be somewhere else, or what you wanted was not in the room, and turning the light off, TOO SOON.

Please, for your own sanity, avoid.

]]> By: Ruut http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-75887 Ruut Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:12:35 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/#comment-75887 These things are a nightmare. We bought two recently, one for the kitchen diner and one for the upstairs hall landing. They seemed like a good idea at the time. The problem is, to test them or to stop them from sounding as a false alarm (for example, when you're burning the toast) you have to cycle the light switch that they are connected to. This is fine, but when the alarm is shreiking in your ear, can you remember the sequence on the light switch? Is it on-off-on-off or off-on-off-on-off-on? When you have tripped the alarm, and you have finally figured out how to stop it from sounding, it emits a loud PEEP noise every minute for 12 minutes. Horrible. Sadly, the time when we need the lights to be on most, naturally, is in the evenings or late at night, and we had easily twenty or so late at night terrifyingly loud false alarms in our house, waking up baby, neighbours and pets. After about a month I had enough and took them out of the light socket and bought conventional battery operated smoke alarms. It doesn't end there. After 30 days, the battery in the alarms start to fail, so again, once a minute it sounds a loud PEEP noise. I put each of them in a ziploc bag in a cupboard in the garage and left them to run down. Hopefully any passing thieves thought we had a sophisticated burgler alarm in the garage. These things are a nightmare. We bought two recently, one for the kitchen diner and one for the upstairs hall landing. They seemed like a good idea at the time.

The problem is, to test them or to stop them from sounding as a false alarm (for example, when you’re burning the toast) you have to cycle the light switch that they are connected to. This is fine, but when the alarm is shreiking in your ear, can you remember the sequence on the light switch? Is it on-off-on-off or off-on-off-on-off-on? When you have tripped the alarm, and you have finally figured out how to stop it from sounding, it emits a loud PEEP noise every minute for 12 minutes. Horrible.

Sadly, the time when we need the lights to be on most, naturally, is in the evenings or late at night, and we had easily twenty or so late at night terrifyingly loud false alarms in our house, waking up baby, neighbours and pets. After about a month I had enough and took them out of the light socket and bought conventional battery operated smoke alarms.

It doesn’t end there. After 30 days, the battery in the alarms start to fail, so again, once a minute it sounds a loud PEEP noise. I put each of them in a ziploc bag in a cupboard in the garage and left them to run down. Hopefully any passing thieves thought we had a sophisticated burgler alarm in the garage.

]]> By: Anthony http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/comment-page-1/#comment-75876 Anthony Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:58:44 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/the-safest-thing-youll-read-all-day/#comment-75876 This is really cool. The smoke detectors in my house are already wired to the home's electrical and have a battery but this is great for someone who doesn't have a newer home. Does this detect Carbon Monoxide as well? Or just smoke? This is really cool. The smoke detectors in my house are already wired to the home’s electrical and have a battery but this is great for someone who doesn’t have a newer home. Does this detect Carbon Monoxide as well? Or just smoke?

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