Comments on: Cold Weather = Dead Batteries http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24 All Things Juddmansee Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Corinne http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-13 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:25:33 +0000 http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24#comment-13 By the way, if you didn’t catch the Halloween episode (10/27/06) of This American Life, there is a great CO story in it. I think it is the first story in that show.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

]]> By: Corinne http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-12 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:20:50 +0000 http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24#comment-12 Your post about the CO and the furnace is crazy! It is one of those things you never think will happen! I’m so glad you had a detector.

Back at the place we were renting out here before we bought, we returned home from vacation really late at night and went to bed. But then there was this chirping. So, we took the battery out of the smoke detector and went back to bed. Still chirping. Then we had a long discussion – how was it possible to chirp without a battery? The detector must have some HUGE capacitor in it or something. It just didn’t make sense! Regardless, we unscrewed the detector from the wall, and threw the smoke detector outside and went back to bed. More chirping. It turned out to be the CO detector with a low battery. We felt pretty silly.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-11 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:35:53 +0000 http://www.juddmansee.com/blog/?p=24#comment-11 If you let the smoke detector batteries warm up to room temperature (assume your room is not freezing), they should work fine. The cold is merely slowing down the rate of the redox reaction that is generating the voltage in the battery. I suggest spending your evenings with your batteries in your pockets. 😉

-Wayne “I didn’t spend five years in evil graduate school to be called Mr. Evil” Pitcher

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