[TriLUG] [OT] Strange Beep from Back-UPS XS 1200

[Ed Blackman]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:32:40AM -0500, Igor Partola wrote:
>As for the smoke detectors, I am a big fan of First Alert Onelink (
>http://www.amazon.com/First-Alert-SCO501CN-3ST-SCO500-Combination/dp/B000EVO7C2for
>example). They create a mesh network so they don't have to be
>hard-wired, and use voice to wake you up and tell you exactly where the
>smoke/fire is.

+1 for Onelink.  I am a sound sleeper, and our family sleeps with our 
doors closed.  If a fire starts on the other side of the house, the 
Onelink mesh will sound the alarm all over the house, including in my 
room loud enough to wake me.  I doubt that a conventional alarm in my 
kids rooms would wake me, and they're still too small to know to go wake 
daddy.

The downside is that when the "low battery" message goes off on one, it 
goes off in all, even at 4am.  :-(  At least it only does the voice 
message through the mesh network once, and then chirps only the low 
battery device once every couple of minutes.

-- 
Ed Blackman