Smoke sensor battery dead

[stevenvd 51]

I have had 3 modules now that had a dead battery in 5 days after installing them. I replaced the battery because I though it would just have been cheap batteries. With the VARTA that I replaced it with I though it would last for a few year now.... 3 days later, 2 of them are empty again! What the hell is happening with these sensors?

[rantta 2]

In my experience Varta is not so good battery. At work it almost doubled my battery consumption. Changed back to Duracell / Rayovac. Never ever again.

Actually I have recently changed to rechargeable batteries, because new battery generation does not self discharge so fast that earlier... After over 6 months still okay, just like freshly charged.

[dcspock 17]

got the exact same experience! replaced them with good batteries (for photo cameras, quite expensive) - dead after a few days...

I guess that was because the smoke sensor was not properly included in the network - beep every 30min so draining the battery...

not happy as I have 9 of them - you can imagine the beeping all over the house until I figured this out.

[lukas.polivka 3]

I'm having very similar experience with both Smoke Sensor and Flood Sensor.

I was trying to find some threads on the forum dealing with communication parameters, e.g. Polling time interval and their effect on the battery life.

[Bzrk 0]

Same experience with Fibaro Flood detector. Received unit with battery already less than 30%

Replaced with new, now after two months it's close to zero.

[boerremk 84]

I had the same problem with 2 of my smokesensors, the battery was dead in 2 days. What I did was run a script to rediscover the neighbors and is running fine for a while now.

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[dcspock 17]

stevenvd, did you figure this out? I have one included in the same room where my HC2 is located (so direct connection) and this one is working. but I dare trying to re-include my other 8 as they would have to bridge - and this brought down my whole network... any idea?

[rajp 14]

I have 2 of these on order... slightly concerned that the battery drain is soo fast when on Fibaro's marketing material it says upto 3 years depending on Parameters set.. What parameters are these?? I was going to replace the existing Smoke Detectors in the house but with this in mind, will put these along side just for safety's sake..