tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924544.post775764185974608624..comments2024-03-26T21:04:41.824-04:00Comments on The Shekel - Coins, Law, and Commentary: When 10-Year Batteries Aren'tAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08146728790019377401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924544.post-79422384574583299592018-12-12T20:28:50.493-05:002018-12-12T20:28:50.493-05:00The people we bought this place from had to add so...The people we bought this place from had to add some CO2 monitors (in a house with NO natural gas!) to meet code, and the ones they bought were the "10 year" combination CO2/Smoke alarm. I'll be watching these to see if they flake out in a few years.drjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647484115197408897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924544.post-62123634403330721382018-12-11T10:58:48.186-05:002018-12-11T10:58:48.186-05:00I can go through hundreds of batteries in a week, ...I can go through hundreds of batteries in a week, and depending upon the batch I will get from 0 to 7 premature failures per hundred. I regularly re-battery a form of instrumentation that we use, in this case with alkaline rather than lithium disposables, but I'm sure that there are still manufacturing defects even with the different battery tech. Most failures are within an hour, but we'Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.com