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Tired of those 2am beeps? They mean it's time to not just replace the battery, but to upgrade and replace your smoke alarm too! Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ walks you through the process of installing the Kidde Worry Free Smoke Alarm by installing one, after safely shutting down power in his house. And it turns out to be pretty darn easy.
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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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9vt battery backup
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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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one
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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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black
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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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screws on
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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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wires are in
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place you just make sure they all go
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into the
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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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so that's pretty
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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
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video
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