Why is it, .....

[DKRITTER]

Why is it, the battery in the bedroom smoke detector has to die at 3:00 in the morning?

 

[Boat Bum]

That'll get the blood pumpin'!

 

[Phillbo]

Engineers are evil people

 

[RobertE]

We had to remove the batteries in our RV. I suppose if it went off when we weren’t there it wouldn’t do any good anyway.

 

[AbdRahim]

I change them every spring, so they don’t die.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

I change them every spring, so they do’t die.

We have smoke/CO2 alarms with ten year batteries. Kiddie model 30CUD10VA

 

[rjshiflet49]

It's a theory similar to "Murphy's Law". Not sure how they make it happen, but ALWAYS between 1:30 a.m. and 3:30 a.m.

 

[DKRITTER]

I change them every spring, so they do’t die.

WOW Really, I wonder if I could do that every spring and every fall coinciding with daylight savings time.
What a marvelous idea. I'll bet not a single person has ever thought of it, simply brilliant.

P.S. I don't think do't is a real word. Can you give me the definition please.

 

[dons2346]

Depending on your age, you probably had to go P anyway

 

[rjshiflet49]

And this past Saturday night, at pretty much precisely 2:30 a.m. our smoke detector in our sticks & bricks home went off just outside of our bedroom door. I got up, checked things and reset it. Just over an hour later it did it again - and this is one that is supposed to have 10-year battery life (purchase new in 2024).

That 10-year battery life on a smoke detector is pretty much equivalent to the 10-20 year purported life span of LED light bulbs (that generally fail in three to five years).

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

WOW Really, I wonder if I could do that every spring and every fall coinciding with daylight savings time.
What a marvelous idea. I'll bet not a single person has ever thought of it, simply brilliant.

P.S. I don't think do't is a real word. Can you give me the definition please.

Maybe your comment is sarcasim but fire departments have been preaching this for years.