My is like that but no pin showing and can't open it and my old man gets real mad,don't want him to break it ,because we live in a housing authority place and it's Friday night no maintenance to call until Monday
My battery is stuck somebody took the battery out thinking the smoke alarm would stop being loud so it started chirping and he left I tried to put it in and it got stuck
This was built by a DEI hire! I’m mad watching you mess with this thing. I’ve literally ripped them off the wall and beat it with a hammer several times. A real mental midget engineer
You have no idea how to help me and you are absolutely hysterical! I agree 100%. I just wish I had a husband here to do it for me and that was scary and I did have to break it with a screwdriver.😂😂😂
You know whats more fun than listening to this thing go off in the middle of the night? Racing to youtube to find a video entitled "How to replace battery in First Alert Smoke Detector" to hear some jackass spend 3 minutes on his idea of stand up comedy and never get to the fucking point. ASSHOLE.
Its not the middle of the night , 8pm, but Im about to smash mine. Id rather burn than to deal with this shit. It’s a nightmare to get the battery in a curved slot !! No wonder why it was on clearance.
Im pretty sure that pin is suppose to be removed when they install the smoke detector, i have this exact same model in my home & none of them have the plastic pin in it. The folks that installed those in your home either didn't know what they were doin or they did it on purpose to mess with the homeowner when they replace the batteries. Anyway you should remove those pins in the rest of the smoke detectors in your home that way you can replace the batteries in the future without even removing the fixture from the wall they made those so you can replace the battery as it is mounted on the wall once those pins are out you can pop open the battery compartment no need to unlatch the detector and definitely no need to pull out the wire harness.
3:56 am here. JC thank you for the video. I have been getting very upset trying to end my torment. I appreciate your providing this. Can anyone get me the names of the engineers who designed this evil device?
Lmaoo I am watching this in the middle of the night thank you so much for this video because I was literally just about to break it. They built it that way on purpose so that we could all go crazy and just buy a new one 🤦🏻♀️
I appreciate you soooooooo much! This helped me get mine open so I could swap out the battery. 😱 so funny that both of mine started chirping at the exact same time. We had lightening last night really close, so I wonder if something was affected.
Your 1/3rd failure rate between 10pm and 6am is incorrect. Unfortunately it's closer to 99%. By design. I didn't even know I had one of these until it started chirping at 3:15am. Unfortunately, the battery replacement didn't work. I don't know if I have a bad batch or if something else is broken (it has a screen and said "BAT" on it, I doubt it's referring the flying ones or the baseball ones), so I had to unplug the thing entirely until I can find a new battery. If I never comment again on RU-vid, you can guess why.
But HOW do you pull the pin out? The instructions on the back of the device say "to discard battery remove pin from under this label." So I had to scratch away at the label to reveal the pin, but the pin is completely flush in the device. HOW can you grab it to pull it out?
OMG... So after about 20 minutes going at this stupid freaking thing with the smallest flat head screwdriver I have, I was FINALLY able to pry out that stupid freaking pointless pin. And, yes, as everyone else has mentioned... Middle of the night... I swear they program these things to go off at that time. 🙄😒
Thanks for telling us about the battery compartment pin that keeps us from opening the battery compartment. Otherwise I wasn’t sure how to get the old battery out without breaking the plastic door.
Yep, failed at 1530 hours during an arctic blast during a power outage when it was 10° outside & just slightly warmer inside & the ceiling is 10' & it's an already precarious situation. Who are the guys that designed this!?
Great video on being disillusioned with a plastic pin, which somebody installed after the first battery was installed. PS. Thanks for NOT showing how the actual battery is put into the device.
Thank you!!!! I'm not alone. It's brand new, purchased today. When i tried pulling out the tab in order to activate it, the tab got stuck half-way out and i can't remove it, thus prompting me to try to open the compartment. Ugh! Plus, , as soon as i activated it, it started chirping 1x every min, indicating the battery needs replacing. It's going back and I'm getting a Kiddie or something else. Thanks for your video. Misery loves company.
