schmellba99 said:
cbr said:
FSGuide said:
cbr said:
I was SOUNDLY ridiculed here for asking why ANYONE would EVER make, sell, or buy a safe with an electronic keypad or that requires electricity of any kind. I wont have one, period, ever.
I am sorry you are stuck, but I guess fewer people will make fun of me for that around here now...
See folks? Reading and reading comprehension are two completely different things.
i wasnt directing my comments at OP, but rather the numerous other posters who DID have a real problem.
another issue is that i really dont have time to be changing batteries... too many things to maintain as it is. tractors, gators, trucks, race cars, fences, cattle, horses, driveway gates, generators, pumps, lights, fans, plumbing, septics, well pumps, and that doesnt count my office.
Do you know how long it takes to change the batteries on a good electronic lock on a safe?
About 32 seconds, and that is including the aggravation of opening the 9v battery package.
I do similar to FS Guide - every new years day I change the batteries in my smoke detectors and gun safe lock. It's just easy to do and there is no excuse to not change them regularly as it is.
wrong. it takes time to put the thought of buying batteries onto my 400 daily task list, then i have to spend 5-6 minutes ordering them online, or more buying them somewhere, and then more time opening them, and deciding where to store them, so that I can remember where the **** they are. Then i have to spend 30 seconds opening them, 10 going to the trash can, then 2 minutes changing them, then rinse and repeat.... all for something that is a fundamental design defect that should never have even been dreamed of.
and then I have to put actually changing them on my list of 500 other things to maintain, and hope I dont die outside my safe one night trying to get in because I didnt do it.
and that of course assumes that the world is perfect and you have power and internet and the supply chain is working.... but then if that is the case, why do you really NEED a safe?
and you do know WHY safe makers use them right? They know it is a fatal design defect. They also know most people are too lazy or unthinking to figure that out, and it is MUCH cheaper than a real lock, so they can improve their margins at your expense.