Cheap batteries and smoke detectors

r2015

Well you have obviously got some faulty batteries.

Three different makes?

I think st999 might be right, the smoke detector is directly above a newly installed radiator.

Johno100

r2015 wrote: »

Three different makes?

I think st999 might be right, the smoke detector is directly above a newly installed radiator.

Where's that little nugget of information come from?

r2015 wrote: »

This is the vent board, I was venting.

All well and good but it doesn't mean you can't be picked up on something if you are evidently talking out of your.....:D

Azari

Johno100 wrote: »

A blanket statement that cheap batteries and smoke detectors don't go together is neither useful, accurate or MSE.

Cheap batteries tend not to be made to the same standard as more expensive ones of the same type.

Thing made to a lower standard tend not to be as reliable as those made to a higher standard.

It is of vital importance that batteries in a smoke alarm are reliable.

From these predicates, and some elementary logic, we can determine that it is inadvisable to use cheap batteries in fire alarms.



Of course, you may have knowledge of the performance and reliability of some makes that means that using them is not a problem.

But ultra cheap no-name Chinese imports are a bit of a no-no.