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re: Official WINK HUB Home Automation thread
Posted on 1/25/16 at 7:43 am to CAD703X
Posted on 1/25/16 at 7:43 am to CAD703X
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The only reason you have that hardwired is so they all go off. You still have to replace the batteries every couple years.
My current detectors are powered by AC and just have a battery for backup. The Kiddie versions for Wink are powered entirely by batteries.
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So while you are technically correct, you could opt to slowly replace the hardwired set with the wireless ones since they do the same thing.. It would just be funky while you still have some old and some new since depending on where the detector went off...only the others on the wired or wireless would join in.
Yes, that's where I'm at. I need to replace one immediately, so I'll have to do that and then probably add a couple of the Wink detectors as additional installments that I can then remove and take with me when I move again.
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Posted on 1/25/16 at 9:11 am to seawolf06
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My current detectors are powered by AC and just have a battery for backup.
Yes and no. Mine were the same yet about once a year one would start chirping because the battery was low. Annoying as shite trying to track down which one was doing it. So yes technically it's on AC but you will still have to replace those 9v batteries every couple years so what's the point.
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