Posted on 04/02/2020 8:42:29 PM PDT by dangus
>>>> Where do I look up what “beep ... [nine minutes of silence] ... beep” means? <<<<
>> I did this internet search: “my house beeps once every 10 minutes”
This came up: Why Is Your ADT System Beeping? <<
ARE YOU FRICKIN’ KIDDING ME??? I went through all that because my ADT beeps a little too quickly??? LOL!!!
Don’t get me started on phone sounds! I have a cheapo cell phone that I use infrequently. When I turn it on it plays weird music and then this chick says “Hurro, mofo!” in a very suggestive tone of voice.
My previous cheapo played something that sounded much like “Came The Dawn.” Or the Microsoft opening notes.
Is there any phone that just powers on silently?
My fridge beeps if one of doors is not closed. One door is very finicky.
Have you noticed how many damn LEDs there are in your house? Little red, green, and blue eyes peering out in the dark.
Same here. The insistent microwave is the one I’d like to smash to bits but there are many more.
” I’ll stop randomly flicking that wall switch that didn’t seem connected to anything.”
Reminds me of when the power goes out and I’m walking around the house with a flashlight and flip the light switch every time I go into a room.
Lucky if it’s in English.
Who hasn’t asked their phone, “If your battery’s low maybe you should shut up and save your energy!”
I remember once having a big party many years ago, and there were a lot of intoxicated people, about ten of us, who stayed over night.
We were all so plastered we were passed out on the carpeted floor everywhere.
There was an 8-Track player, and it was playing Journey, Foghat, or something like that. It has been so long I can’t remember. But that damned eight track played all-night-long. All night. We were so intoxicated, nobody could get up and shut it off.
The thing about eight tracks if you recall, is they have that loud, metallic “clack” when they change tracks.
Over and over and over I heard that album all night, and there was one song where it changed tracks in the middle of the song.
To this day, if I ever hear that song, my mind inserts that “clack” right into it and I hear it.
Whether it is there or not.
Most of the ones I am using are the CyberPower SL750U model. It’s their slimline model. I have several of them. One for the fiber optic gateway. One for the modem/router in the media cabinet. One for the bedroom TV, Blu-Ray, and STB. One for the family room TV, Blu-Ray, and DVR. One for the spare room PC (which is rarely powered on) and wireless bridge.
Most of these devices don’t use much power, and the primary need for the battery backups is to handle the short power outages and dropouts we experience in central Texas. For those times, these units have worked exactly as we have needed. It wasn’t until our extended outage today that the odd beeping started.
Somewhere between Samuel Morse and the Roadrunner.
LOL
SLOW RIDE *click* TAKE IT EASY....
That makes me thinks of my records that had scratches at certain parts and I always think of the scratch when I hear the song at that point.
Is that you, Steven Wright?
At least you still remember what you were looking for after wandering around the big house.
I have two Tripplites here in my Dallas area home, but the rest are older APCs I’ve rebuilt with new batteries (this is the cheapest way, by far, to get a decent/good UPS). All of them are 1500 class.
The APC “Power Is Out” beep chorus when the power goes out is kind of amusing, when all eight of the APCs are singing in time.
I remember when Nissan introduced the first talking car. Instead of beeping it would say “You reft your rights on” but it did not catch on with customers.
Last month, a friend was driving me into town and his car kept beeping at him. We tried everything we could think of until we’d reached our destination and shut off the engine. It was when we were finished and he started it again that he realized why it was beeping - the park brake wasn’t fully disengaged. My friend is 82 so he drives like the park brake is on anyway.
Mine beeps 5 times at the end of a cycle. I can shorten this by hitting the “start” button while it’s beeping...which produces its own beep, but it stops the rest of the automatic ones. So I usually hit “start” right after or during automatic beep #1.
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