glunt
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- Location
- Mentor, Ohio
I recently visited my mother's home. For the past few years she has been experiencing a minor problem with a battery-powered smoke alarm. It seems when she turns on the bathroom light, the smoke alarm (FirstAlert battery-operated) provides a brief duo-chirp, after about 3 seconds. The light-switch is about 5 feet away, on an adjacent wall in the hall. The single-pole switch operates an incandescent overhead lamp in the bathroom. I checked the connections on the switch and found a loose terminal, concluding that was the problem, but it didn't help when I tightened the connection. I didn't have my Gaussmeter to see if it was and EMF problem. I never heard of such a thing. I searched the FirstAlert website to no avail. Anyone ever had a problem like this? I didn't try moving the smoke alarm further away because it is in a position which makes sense from a fire alert perspective.