OK if you have ever heard a really loud noise that came from no where chances are its something that you didn't think of. Well I guess that doesn't make sense but on Saturday a thing like that happened to me. Even though the day was not so great (kind of scary hearing loud noises you can't explain)... now at least I have the whole story it actually made it worth it (OK again that makes no sense but moving on).
I was sitting in my room doing some stuff on my Server (yes I know geeky) when all of the sudden there is a really loud popping sound that echo's in the room. The sound didn't actually even make me jump (no joke) but the sound is something I have heard before. To me the sound sounded like balloon that exploded... (to put it in easy terms for everyone). However I have no balloons in my apartment (at least now you know :) ). If you know me the first thing that it sounded like to me was a light bulb exploding. I only had one light bulb on in the whole apartment but it was working.
This is where the story gets kind of funny and creative. Knowing myself I checked all the light bulbs and they all worked. I even checked my projector bulb which gets really hot but that was intact to. So then I got me thinking that my computer equipment or TV had some capacitor exploded, but they all worked. I even checked my battery backups for my computer equipment. No luck. I couldn't find anything. Hey I even checked frig (the back, not inside come on I’m not that paranoid). I was stumped.
Well today I got my answer. Yes there was one thing I missed that had a battery… The SMOKE DETECTOR. As you probably know some smoke detectors start to beep when there battery was low. Well it started beeping this afternoon when I was doing my homework (apparently things happen when I am trying to concentrate). The 9 Volt Battery apparently exploded inside the smoke detector. I checked it and the battery had exploded from the bottom and had a big ball of dried battery acid that had leaked out and then dried. Guess we should pay more attention when it says on every battery about the warning that they may explode... because in my case that could be anytime.... literally. LOL!
So mystery solved... finally. So if you ever hear a popping noise that you can't explain check your smoke detectors. I guess now I know that Smoke Detector batteries randomly explode. What a great fact to know :P. Makes for a good story though :) .
-[ADF]Grahame
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