Also I’m kind of new to the smoke alarm community so there is one thing I’d like to know about I’ve heard people talking about like 4/6 or something else for like a code one tone and I know it code one is I just want to know what that means because I started being interested in fire alarms around October 6 2025 and then smoke alarms probably October 20
“4/6” & “5/6” are terms used to described the patterns that a lot of pre-1996 smoke detectors with horns make (1996 was the year Temporal 3 started being required on detectors with horns). I’m not sure what exactly the terms mean other than something about “the duration the horn is on & off for in a single (milli?)second” (something like that at least).
Interesting because one of the main reasons I heard about that was because in one video of a SA76RD they said it did slower 4/6 apparently
Also I was gonna send some videos of my smoke alarms but the videos were too big for me to upload
Bro is 9 years old 
Yeah, they can sometimes vary like that: “4/6” & “5/6” I believe just indicate the duration of the horn’s “on” time, not how fast it pulses (if this makes sense).
Maybe give this site a try: 8mb.video: online compressor FREE
Leave them alone: at least they have their mom helping to make sure they’re safe & such online, & we all have to get started in this community at some point.
I tried it and even though it wasn’t 20 minutes because they automatically delete them after 20 minutes it automatically got deleted for some reason so are there any other sites that might work?
Not that I know of: tried using that site & another the other day but neither worked for some reason.
I mean if I had a YouTube channel I could post it on there but I don’t I don’t really know how to post it because I want to show my smoke alarm collection going off and also something weird was happening too with my SA76RD
Well I found a video compressor but apparently the files are still too big to upload even though they’re smaller than the limit sigh
Well because I can’t upload the videos I’ll just tell you something weird that happens whenever I try and take out the battery of my SA76RD so because it’s such a small place for your thumb to go/finger to go I push a tiny bit on the sensor when I pull out the battery and whenever I push on the battery to take it out it goes off for some reason and I don’t know if it’s like some sort of charge going through my hand that I can’t feel like goes to the sensor or if it’s that my hand is close to sensor but some thing is happening
Very bizarre behavior from the sound of it.
On another note, could you please start breaking up sentences via commas & periods so that they’re not run-on ones? (sorry, but it helps the rest of us read them easier & doing so just generally looks better & more professional as well)
Earlier today I saw a video from NLind, With a Sears. And whenever he touched both the sensor and the squealer horn. It went off so I wonder if this is similar. (I’m learning how to use grammar so sorry if my grammar is bad)
Is it ok if I link the video?
That was likely with his 246.57311, & that’s different than in your case since both the sensor & the horn are different materials: on your SA76RD one is plastic, which doesn’t conduct electricity, & on NLind’s 246.57311 both are metal, which does conduct electricity (&, as you saw, allows the horn to sound if you create a circuit between it & the sensor in any way, including via your fingers).
Yeah, sure: people do that on this forum all the time! (even though I might have already explained what happened & why that’s basically impossible with newer units)
Here, also it may not be exactly the same but it’s similar. What I mean like is it completes the circuit when I touch it.
Yeah, but like I said the chances of that happening with your detector are very unlikely if not impossible because of the differences in design with it.
I’m pretty sure that means that it takes on average about 4 minutes to read that particular topic.
Yeah, but like I said the chances of that happening with your detector are very unlikely if not impossible because of the differences in design with it.
Interesting, I guess then somehow my finger maybe being right next to the sensor does something?
