Something was chirping in my house last night from 3:30 AM until 5AM. It was a faint electronic chirp, not loud and harsh like the smoke detectors. Every time I moved to one area of the house it seemed to be coming from somewhere else. The chirps were exactly 40 seconds apart. The chirping stopped on its own.
I checked the smoke detectors, front door lock, coffeemaker, digital thermometer, washer/dryer and everything else I could think of. Nothing was chirping.
Just in case it happens again, what do you think it is?
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Refrigerator? Ours chirps if one of the doors is even slightly open, which happens sometimes with a French door frig.
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Do you have a UPS powering anything? Any well pump or septic pump? A water detector alarm under the water heater with a dying battery? How about a fitbit or smartwatch that might be trying to let you know it needs charging? All of the above been known to mysteriously chirp in the Lisa househould.
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Crickets do that. The number of seconds between chirps can be calculated, by some formula, to give you the temperature.
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Originally posted by RealPlayer: Crickets do that. The number of seconds between chirps can be calculated, by some formula, to give you the temperature.
We usually get a couple of crickets in the basement in late summer. I've never checked the chirp count against the actual temp. I'll do that in 2022!
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I took down the two smoke detectors at the front of the house, wrapped them a blanket and stored them in the BBQ outside.
Each of them behaved differently when I disconnected it and removed the batteries. On chirped once and stopped, the other continued to chirp for a few minutes after. They’re identical and I would expect the do the same thing so I’m Pretty sure one of them is bad.
If it is the source if the chirp I’ll replace both of them as I’ve already had to replace the one in the hall.
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Jodi
