Can a power outage cause smoke detectors to go off?
Posted April 22nd, 2009 by admin 3 Comments »
Wei asked:
My smoke detectors (they’re wired into the house and I think it also has a backup battery) went off around 4am last night, at first it was a beep every minute or so. My dad went to check it out and when he tried to turn on the lights they didn’t work. A few minutes later the lights were back on and the smoke detector starting blaring but stop after a few minutes. I called the fire department but they really didn’t have an answer for me. So is the short power outage the reason the smoke detector went off?
My smoke detectors (they’re wired into the house and I think it also has a backup battery) went off around 4am last night, at first it was a beep every minute or so. My dad went to check it out and when he tried to turn on the lights they didn’t work. A few minutes later the lights were back on and the smoke detector starting blaring but stop after a few minutes. I called the fire department but they really didn’t have an answer for me. So is the short power outage the reason the smoke detector went off?