A tale of a chirping alarm
Mar. 24th, 2025 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherYesterday there was a chirping smoke alarm, so I looked around and found the step ladder and took out the battery.
I then asked Dad for advice because, "I took out the battery but it's still chirping." I did look around for other smoke detectors but did not see any.
Dad says, "There's just some left over electricity in the capacitor, it will wind down eventually."
Like a fool I believed him, lol, he was an electrical engineer.
So I get a new battery with the grocery order, and I pop that in. Guess what, it's still chirping! What the heck. I go to Dad because it's his house and maybe he knows something I don't. He says, just take the alarm down and we'll replace it.
So I take the alarm down while he's upstairs because I'm tired of the back and forth. He's holding this old smoke detector in his hand and looking at it and we hear a loud chirp. WHAT is going on...?
Suddenly Dad remembers that there is a carbon monoxide detector plugged into the wall near the floor...! I busted out laughing.
There is still elecTRIcity in the CapACitor," I teased him.
"If you say anything with conviction people will believe you," he said, which is a phrase I have also said in my life, making fun of myself, so I guess I got that from him. Ahahaahah
I then asked Dad for advice because, "I took out the battery but it's still chirping." I did look around for other smoke detectors but did not see any.
Dad says, "There's just some left over electricity in the capacitor, it will wind down eventually."
Like a fool I believed him, lol, he was an electrical engineer.
So I get a new battery with the grocery order, and I pop that in. Guess what, it's still chirping! What the heck. I go to Dad because it's his house and maybe he knows something I don't. He says, just take the alarm down and we'll replace it.
So I take the alarm down while he's upstairs because I'm tired of the back and forth. He's holding this old smoke detector in his hand and looking at it and we hear a loud chirp. WHAT is going on...?
Suddenly Dad remembers that there is a carbon monoxide detector plugged into the wall near the floor...! I busted out laughing.
There is still elecTRIcity in the CapACitor," I teased him.
"If you say anything with conviction people will believe you," he said, which is a phrase I have also said in my life, making fun of myself, so I guess I got that from him. Ahahaahah
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Date: 2025-03-24 11:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-24 06:23 pm (UTC)Given that they're tasked with crucial infrastructure, engineers are accustomed to dressing their pronouncements in convincing clothing!
(They finally make combo alarms so one ceiling-pod can alert to both CO2 and smoke.)