How To Get The Battery Out Of A Smoke Detector. Where to Find User Manuals. If your alarm is hardwired turn off power.

Removing the battery from a smoke alarm also called a smoke detector wont set the unit off and start the fire alarm beeping. To remove these you typically give the body a counterclockwise twist. When installing the battery in your alarm make sure they match the same polarity in the battery drawer.
Instead it will likely do the opposite and disable the unit.
Make sure the negative and positive connections match the labels in the smoke detector. If you have a smoke alarm that lives waaay up high you probably have had this adventureThe alarm starts shrieking or chirping for some attention. How to Replace a 9V Battery. At least one online video says every six months.
