Why is my Brother multifunction printer causing battery backup to beep?


Posted October 7th, 2009 by admin 1 Comment »
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midnightnocturne0 asked:


I just bought a Brother MFC-7840W printer. I plugged its power cord into my APC battery backup and when I powered up the printer it’d turn the entire surge protector off. After reading into it, Brother said not to do this. So I plugged the printer into the bottom outlet while the top outlet is occupied by the APC surge protector. Only, when I power the printer on, the surge protector beeps periodically.

Is this a problem? Is my house going to catch on fire? Should I find another location for the printer to plug into so the surge protector isn’t beeping, even though its not going into the surge protector?

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Posted in Printers | 1 Comment »

why does my APC battery backup/surge protector freak out for no apparent reason?


Posted March 4th, 2009 by admin 3 Comments »
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codenamebass asked:


I have an APC battery backup/surge protector, obviously, and I’ll be using my computer and the solid tone beep will just start going off. Power didn’t go out, the light on the battery backup is still on, the only connections i’m using are the 3 with surge protection. the ones without surge protection aren’t touched. anyone know whats happening? or how I avoid it?

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Posted in Other - Computers | 3 Comments »

Why is my direct wire smoke detector beeping?


Posted January 13th, 2009 by admin 7 Comments »
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Ian T asked:


My house has direct wire (120v ac) smoke detectors. One of them will emit a beep every so often. Does a backup battery need to be replaced? Is one of the wire connections loose?

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Posted in Maintenance & Repairs | 7 Comments »

smoke detectors in home are beeping?


Posted January 13th, 2009 by admin 15 Comments »
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Andre The Giant asked:


The new smoke detector code in Michigan, I believe is to have both AC electric with backup battery smoke detectors in every room.

Anyway.. we are having a problem with the smoke detectors that we’ve just recently installed:…

Are they supposed to beep like every 5 mins or is this just some kind of phase?

Is this fixable, if so… how?

Also, could someone please get me a link to Michigan codes for smoke detectors?

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Posted in Maintenance & Repairs | 15 Comments »