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by deveac 4457 days ago
>Old smoke detectors had this feature. You just take the battery out.

The feature was having the detector unknowingly disabled. A better analogy would be the batteries in your smoke detector running out.

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My understanding is that it's temporarily disabled by the wave. Is that not the case? It's still an issue if a fire starts and you aren't alerted for 20 minutes but I'm curious.