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oh heck there's nothing more annoying as
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a homeowner than when one of your smoke
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or carbon monoxide alarms has a dying
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battery just listen to that low battery
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beep well at least it's not 2 in the
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morning when they usually seem to go off
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all of my smoke and carbon monoxide
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alarms are actually hardwired into my
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electrical system but they all have a
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the beep is telling me that the battery
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voltage is low and that means it's time
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to replace the batteries in this case
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though I actually need to replace the
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entire alarm and all the others in my
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house because they're more than 10 years
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old I'm going to replace every one of my
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old school alarms with these new K
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WorryFree alarms these alarms feature a
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sealed lithium battery that lasts 10
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years with battery backups the alarm is
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powered even when the home's power goes
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out I'll also sleep better knowing that
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the worry-free combination smoke and
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carbon monoxide alarm features a voice
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warning that will identify if I have a
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fire or carbon monoxide threat H does
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this sound hard to install it's not all
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you need is to make sure that you've
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dropped the power to your entire house
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before you begin to make sure you don't
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get shocked it's a bit daunting to think
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about turning off the power to your
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entire house and then disconnecting and
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reconnecting new smoke alarms and you
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really do need to drop the power cuz
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there's hot leads and you don't want to
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get zapped but it's really not as much
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work as you think first step is to
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unscrew it from the ceiling and it
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should just drop down and then with a
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little bit of moving things
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around so now there's two screws here
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that hold the ceiling plate in and I
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have a handy screwdriver so we'll just
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loosen them we don't want to take them
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out in this case the way the ceiling
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plate works is I move
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sideways and should come
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out um there we go and then the other
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one comes off and so now it's like this
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and I want to sort of pull this whole
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mess of wires down there's three
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connectors and you can see there's a red
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one and that's the interconnect line
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there's the white one which is the
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neutral and there's the black one which
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is hot we're going to take the new
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harness and we're going to connect it
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Wire by wire so I'll start with
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and it's pretty easy to work with these
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all you do is make sure the wires are
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all lined up and then it basically
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usually so you push the wire all the way
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into the end of this and then just screw
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it on till it's nice and tight all the
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place you just make sure they all go
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top screw it till it's
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tight and we should be good to go so the
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next step is just to put the plate back
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on and you want to sort of let's see
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let's push this back up into the
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ceiling that should be
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good and it actually has
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holes in the same place how about that
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for Handy take the new alarm plug it in
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and there's only one way to plug it in
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easy there we go and that beep says I'm
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good I hope this has inspired you to
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replace your old hardwired smoke and
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combination alarms with the new K sealed
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battery 10year smoke alarms it really is
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worth the time and here's another thing
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I want to point out is that you can't
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quite see it but there's a little LED on
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every single unit and it's glowing a
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very cheery green which tells me
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everything's good and that's 10 years of
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everything being good that sounds really
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good to me so I'll see you in my next
