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gigemJTH12
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5:22p, 1/29/25
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Wife told me while I was at work that the smoke detector was beeping. I got home and it's none of those. It's kind of faint but you can definitely hear it.

Weird part is when you're downstairs it sounds like it's coming from upstairs. And vice versa. It's driving us nuts.

Any ideas?
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5:38p, 1/29/25
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I'd change the batteries in all of them.
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5:47p, 1/29/25
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I dealt with this for like 3 days before I realized my wife had plugged in one of the outlet carbon monoxide detectors and then my daughter rearranged her bedroom and put a dresser in front of it. The faint beep still haunts me
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In reply to 04.arch.ag • 6:03p, 1/29/25
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It's neither of those. Or the smoke detectors. No clue what it could be.
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6:07p, 1/29/25
Have a water alarm on a water heater?
Have a water filtration system under a sink?

Those in my house always go off in the middle of the night and give faint beeps due to being behind doors.
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6:07p, 1/29/25
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Throw the main breaker to see if it quits beeping. More likely to be battery powered, but it's one variable to eliminate.

If it turns out to be hard-wired, turn half the panel on, then a quarter, then an eighth, etc. until you isolate it.
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6:08p, 1/29/25
Also could be a detector in your attic.
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6:53p, 1/29/25
Leak detector like a Leak Frog? Some of them will beep every 8 hours or so when the batteries get low. Took me gd forever to pinpoint that thing - after changing all the smoke detector batteries.
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7:20p, 1/29/25
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UPS with a dying battery on a computer or A/V equipment?
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7:33p, 1/29/25
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How often does it beep?
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In reply to akaggie05 • 8:07p, 1/29/25
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akaggie05 said:
UPS with a dying battery on a computer or A/V equipment?


I was thinking this or a thermostat
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8:12p, 1/29/25
Hearing aids?
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Matsui
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8:26p, 1/29/25
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Update!?
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9:35p, 1/29/25
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Alarm system back up battery?
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gigemJTH12
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10:31p, 1/29/25
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my freakin wife man.

I bought some new CO detectors last year and put them in. I had no idea she "kept the old ones in case we need them some day"

She put them in a drawer in our living room and I guess the backup batteries finally went low today. We have high ceilings in our living room so I guess the sound was bouncing all over the place. and it was pretty faint so I couldnt pin point where it was.

I had no idea we still had those or it would have crossed my mind.

unbelievable
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11:12p, 1/29/25
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"Extra" CO monitor got us a while back as well. Got stuffed in a junk drawer. Low battery chirp drove me mad till I figured it out.
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1:26p, 1/30/25
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Do you have prankster friends? They may have gotten you with an Annoyatron. It gives off random beeps at random intervals. We got a friend back when we were all single recent grads and it drove him nuts for a week before he finally found it!
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In reply to gigemJTH12 • 4:48p, 1/30/25
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gigemJTH12 said:
my freakin wife man.

I bought some new CO detectors last year and put them in. I had no idea she "kept the old ones in case we need them some day"

She put them in a drawer in our living room and I guess the backup batteries finally went low today. We have high ceilings in our living room so I guess the sound was bouncing all over the place. and it was pretty faint so I couldnt pin point where it was.

I had no idea we still had those or it would have crossed my mind.

unbelievable
Gotta love keeping something "just in case" after you purposely replace them.
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8:35p, 1/30/25
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Any chance you have an old fios box in your garage? They had a battery backup for 911 service for phone over fiber…or something like that.
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1:07a, 1/31/25
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In reply to Rudyjax • 3:35a, 1/31/25
Rudyjax said:
I'd change the batteries in all of them.
This
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1:02p, 1/31/25
There was an episode of Modern Family about this. Nice one, Phil
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4:07p, 1/31/25
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What's the over/under for number of posts suggesting what it is after the OP already figured it out?
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In reply to htxag09 • 4:59p, 1/31/25
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if it get set at 3, I'm betting the over...
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1:51p, 2/3/25
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had a similar issue recently. turned out to be a kids watch that had an alarm set so it was making a faint noise every hour.

and yes, I saw it was solved. just adding to the possibility list because if bothered me for around a week.
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1:58p, 2/3/25
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Years ago, we put some battery powered toy up in the attic, maybe a tickle me Elmo, and as the battery died out, it started randomly making sounds
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In reply to mefoghorn • 11:23p, 2/3/25
mefoghorn said:
Years ago, we put some battery powered toy up in the attic, maybe a tickle me Elmo, and as the battery died out, it started randomly making sounds

That actually sounds terrifying.
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7:29a, 2/5/25
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In reply to gigemJTH12 • 6:43p, 2/8/25
I'm late to the party. But thanks op. I got a nice chuckle out of this post
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