How To Take The Battery Out Of A Fire Alarm. The 9-volt battery will have two prongs that need to be pushed into place tightly while the AA types will face the same direction. Removing the battery from a smoke alarm also called a smoke detector wont set the unit off and start the fire alarm beeping.
The plaintive cry or beeping as you callously put it of the alarm is its cry of boredom of loneliness. Remove the connectors from the battery terminals. Let us take a look at how to change batteries for fire alarms.
Switch off the power for the smoke alarms on the circuit panel.
Remove your smoke alarm from the ceiling bracket then detach the power connector. As a rule the lower the battery gets the more the detector chirps. Install a new battery and test again. Yes they cry because they cannot bear to hang on the wall unnoticed and unused a day longer.
