My remote for the Comcast Xfinity DVR is a real battery hog. It lasts far less than previous boxes’ remotes. After it has been displaying the “Your batteries are low” message for a little while and eventually starts “missing” signals, I change them and test the ones I took out. They are both still well into the green “Good” section.
We bought one (okay, 2 pack) of the new smoke detectors whose batteries are never changed. They are good for 10 years and then one tosses the entire unit.
July 4th our plans had fallen through for a trip. I decided that I would make husband hot dogs and a burger for me on my cast iron raised grid pan – it would be just like cooking it outside.
I have not used this pan in a while as I use a flat cast iron pan for cooking. I put the pan on to preheat. Suddenly the entire kitchen filled with smoke. I shut off the burner, took the pan off it and opened the side door next to the stove. The smoke detector went off.
I am 5’1". I climbed on a chair and stood on my toes and pushed the silence button. It went off for a second or two and then was back on. I pushed it again – ditto. Over the next hour (literally) in between climbing back up and pushing the silence button, I turned on the ceiling fan – I reversed the ceiling fan – I fanned the air near the smoke detector with a piece of cardboard.
After an hour I figured out how to grab my cell phone, stand on the chair – on my toes (which hurt by now) & text my husband. While our house is small kitchen is on the north side, office is upstairs on the south side with a/c on and door closed so he had not heard the alarm. He came down. He is a very (not) tall 5’6" but at least did not need to stand on his toes on the chair. Now, normally if something like this happened (and never happened for this long before) we would have unscrewed the smoke detector from the ceiling and removed the battery. But we could not – tools were needed to remove the detector and then the battery could not be removed.
After an hour and 45 minutes from when this started, it finally stopped. I boiled his hot dogs for him and boiled some frozen vegetables for me to have for dinner. Later husband climbed up and took down the smoke detector. On July 5 we went out and bought normal one that can unscrew from the ceiling & battery out.
jackianne1020 about 6 years ago
With as much TV as he watches, I’d think he’d change the remote’s batteries more often.
ChessPirate about 6 years ago
My remote for the Comcast Xfinity DVR is a real battery hog. It lasts far less than previous boxes’ remotes. After it has been displaying the “Your batteries are low” message for a little while and eventually starts “missing” signals, I change them and test the ones I took out. They are both still well into the green “Good” section.
mafastore about 6 years ago
We bought one (okay, 2 pack) of the new smoke detectors whose batteries are never changed. They are good for 10 years and then one tosses the entire unit.
July 4th our plans had fallen through for a trip. I decided that I would make husband hot dogs and a burger for me on my cast iron raised grid pan – it would be just like cooking it outside.
I have not used this pan in a while as I use a flat cast iron pan for cooking. I put the pan on to preheat. Suddenly the entire kitchen filled with smoke. I shut off the burner, took the pan off it and opened the side door next to the stove. The smoke detector went off.
I am 5’1". I climbed on a chair and stood on my toes and pushed the silence button. It went off for a second or two and then was back on. I pushed it again – ditto. Over the next hour (literally) in between climbing back up and pushing the silence button, I turned on the ceiling fan – I reversed the ceiling fan – I fanned the air near the smoke detector with a piece of cardboard.
After an hour I figured out how to grab my cell phone, stand on the chair – on my toes (which hurt by now) & text my husband. While our house is small kitchen is on the north side, office is upstairs on the south side with a/c on and door closed so he had not heard the alarm. He came down. He is a very (not) tall 5’6" but at least did not need to stand on his toes on the chair. Now, normally if something like this happened (and never happened for this long before) we would have unscrewed the smoke detector from the ceiling and removed the battery. But we could not – tools were needed to remove the detector and then the battery could not be removed.
After an hour and 45 minutes from when this started, it finally stopped. I boiled his hot dogs for him and boiled some frozen vegetables for me to have for dinner. Later husband climbed up and took down the smoke detector. On July 5 we went out and bought normal one that can unscrew from the ceiling & battery out.