My first alert smoke detector went off at midnight last night. It is doing the three beeps, pausing and then another three beeps. This happened for about 3 minutes, stopped and then started again repeating this for about 6 minutes. It started up again after about 5 minutes. It repeated this process for close to 15 or 20 minutes. I had to turn off the breaker and remove the batteries to get it to stop. I checked the house and no smoke/fire was present. I did not see a model number on the detector. This was installed during a remodel job, and I did not receive any literature on the alarms. I have three of them in the house. It seemed at first only the master bedroom alarm sounded, but by the end all of the alarms were going off. Any ideas?

I've been an Lic. electrical contractor for 30 yrs and a fire fighter for 22 yrs, have installed 100s of smoke detector, changing batteries 3 time per yr is ridiculous. It is recommended they be changed once a year, October , during Fire Prevention month. What is "achahol" ? Is that like alcohol? I have never recommended any home owner to do their own repair of a smoke detector. If you think it is malfunctioning, REPLACE IT ASAP end of story. I've been an Lic. electrical contractor for 30 yrs and a fire fighter for 22 yrs, have installed 100s of smoke detector, changing batteries 3 time per yr is ridiculous. It is recommended they be changed once a year, October , during Fire Prevention month. What is "achahol" ? Is that like alcohol? I have never recommended any home owner to do their own repair of a smoke detector. If you think it is malfunctioning, REPLACE IT ASAP end of story.