The dang thing has been rarely doing the 3 chirp code a couple times during the day for the better part of a week now. Our cat is really frightened by the sound and I fairly quickly had a suspicion which one was throwing the chirps but I couldn’t catch it in the act to be sure, and it was otherwise ambiguous which one was at fault and there were no LED codes to help.

Finally confirmed it today. 10 years and 1 month past date of purchase. 10 year warranty. Figures.

  • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    It may not be malfunctioning. It might be it’s way of saying my battery is low, so replace me.

    There are 3 types I’ve seen over here.

    Wired into mains, 10 year battery and 9 volt battery.

    I think some places changed building codes so all sold or new dwellings had to have either a 10yr or mains, but some 9 volts still exist and I know one which will start chirping when the battery is low.

    • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      A couple of mine each take two AAs but I used lithium batteries which I’m expecting to get about a decade out of. We’ll see, if I’m still alive by then.

    • kurushimi@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      10 hours ago

      In my case I did a round of battery replacements about a year ago to get them all synced after a couple annoying staggered battery replacement chirps, so I’m familiar with the codes. There was one of these that did the 3 chirps late last year and I got that warrantied successfully, so based on that experience I went ahead with replacing this one.