Battery-Operated Water Alarm

vuqchu · 07/07/2015, 05:00 PM

Ran across this so thought I'd share it. Not Apex, but it does the job at a whole lot less.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Basement-...-HWA/100038838

USAFReefer · 07/08/2015, 10:27 AM

One has to be a little careful with those battery operated ones. I bought the cheap Harbor Freight version that had a major fault to it. When the battery runs low, it would set off the alarm. Not a normal 'chirp' like a smoke detector, but full on alarm. This happened to me while I was at work and a neighbor called 911. I came home to a bunch of police and firefighters in my home and having to explain that the alarm was just a simple water leak detector behind my stand and it was just a low battery that set it off and not a smoke detector. Needless to say, it went into the trash after that and I replaced it with one that plugs into my battery backup and been fine since.

07/07/2015, 05:00 PM	#1
vuqchu Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 1,885	Battery-Operated Water Alarm Ran across this so thought I'd share it. Not Apex, but it does the job at a whole lot less. http://www.homedepot.com/p/Basement-...-HWA/100038838

07/08/2015, 10:27 AM	#2
USAFReefer Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 80	One has to be a little careful with those battery operated ones. I bought the cheap Harbor Freight version that had a major fault to it. When the battery runs low, it would set off the alarm. Not a normal 'chirp' like a smoke detector, but full on alarm. This happened to me while I was at work and a neighbor called 911. I came home to a bunch of police and firefighters in my home and having to explain that the alarm was just a simple water leak detector behind my stand and it was just a low battery that set it off and not a smoke detector. Needless to say, it went into the trash after that and I replaced it with one that plugs into my battery backup and been fine since.