Strange beep solved

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Hi All,

A fun troubleshoot.

Symptom: every time the customer's Brother HL22240
went to print, a loud beep was heard. Printer
did print.

Solution: move the printer's power cord out of
the UPS's surge only and plug it into a outlet
strip that was plugged directly into the wall.

Cause: the UPS was squealing as a over current
warning. The customer noticed that the printer
printed faster too after the power rearrangement.

Took 4 minutes to figure out, but it was a
fun troubleshoot.

-T

Almost as fun as the time I got called out
on a computer with a periodic high pitched
squeak, "even" with the computer turned off.
Changing the battery on the smoke detector
on the ceiling above the computer desk
fixed the problem. :-)
 
Todd said:
Hi All,

A fun troubleshoot.

Symptom: every time the customer's Brother HL22240
went to print, a loud beep was heard. Printer
did print.

Solution: move the printer's power cord out of
the UPS's surge only and plug it into a outlet
strip that was plugged directly into the wall.

Cause: the UPS was squealing as a over current
warning. The customer noticed that the printer
printed faster too after the power rearrangement.

Took 4 minutes to figure out, but it was a
fun troubleshoot.

-T

Almost as fun as the time I got called out
on a computer with a periodic high pitched
squeak, "even" with the computer turned off.
Changing the battery on the smoke detector
on the ceiling above the computer desk
fixed the problem. :-)
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A laser printer has a thing called a "fuser",
which uses heat to fix the toner to the paper.
Such a heating device can draw as much as a
kilowatt. And requires a stout plug or a
direct connection to a wall outlet. There are
UPS that could handle such a load, they exist,
but only a business could afford the capital cost.
Most consumers just run their laser off a non-UPS
circuit. It would be the same if you tried to run
a refrigerator or other motorized device off the
UPS. Too much current draw for a small UPS to handle.

Some UPS handle so much power, that you no longer
use a plug to plug the UPS in, and instead, it's
wired by an electrician, into the wiring. That's
for when the current is more than a regular branch
circuit can handle.

Paul
 
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Almost as fun as the time I got called out
on a computer with a periodic high pitched
squeak, "even" with the computer turned off.
Changing the battery on the smoke detector
on the ceiling above the computer desk
fixed the problem. :-)
Click to expand...



Many years ago , at three in the morning I was awakened by the beep,
beep beep of a battery dying in the smoke detector.


I could not sleep, so I replaced it.

As soon as I got into bed it started again.


I then replaced the battery in the downstairs detector...

but again, as soon as I got in bed I heard it again.


Finally I realized my pager's battery was dying!


Like I said, that was a long time ago I don't know if anyone uses pagers
anymore.
 
Many years ago , at three in the morning I was awakened by the beep,
beep beep of a battery dying in the smoke detector.


I could not sleep, so I replaced it.
As soon as I got into bed it started again.

I then replaced the battery in the downstairs detector...
but again, as soon as I got in bed I heard it again.

Finally I realized my pager's battery was dying!

Like I said, that was a long time ago I don't know if anyone uses pagers
anymore.
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One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
 
On 01X


One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
Click to expand...



Last one to bug me was a low-intensity high pitched squeal coming from
my computer. I took the case off and was going over the inside with a
stethoscope. Eventually found it was coming from the speakers!
 
Many years ago , at three in the morning I was awakened by the
beep, beep beep of a battery dying in the smoke detector.

I could not sleep, so I replaced it.

As soon as I got into bed it started again.


I then replaced the battery in the downstairs detector...

but again, as soon as I got in bed I heard it again.


Finally I realized my pager's battery was dying!
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I just went through this annoyance a couple of weeks ago. My elderly
neighbor asked me to change the beeping dead battery in his smoke
detector. I climbed up on a ladder and changed it. As I started to
leave, it beeped again. Thinking the "new" battery was also dead, I put
in another one. It beeped, too. I thought maybe it was the downstairs
alarm and I changed it. Then the beeping started up again. By now I had
unwrapped 4 or 5 new batteries - surely they couldn't all be dead???

Turned out it was not the smoke detector at all, it was the CO
detector, which was about 12 feet down the hall. That loud annoying
beep is VERY hard to geo-locate by ear - it sounds like it's coming
from everywhere, and I guess I so assumed it was coming from the smoke
detector that I really heard it. Doh!
 
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
Click to expand...
I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

One death from beef on the bone might be expected every 20 years at the current
rate, but 40,000 people will die falling downstairs in that time. Should we
make
bungalows compulsory? ("Equinox" on Risk, April 1999, paraphrased by Polly
Toynbee in Radio Times)
 
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
Click to expand...
I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)
Click to expand...


It was in 1981 or 82 that when asleep in a hotel room in Osaka, Japan,
I woke up every hour on the hour when something in my room beeped. I
cursed the Japanese and the way they treated their guests...

....until the next morning when I was no longer in the hotel room and
the hourly beeps continued. It was my new digital watch that I had
somehow set to do that without realizing it (it was my first digital
watch).
 
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:51:30 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"



It was in 1981 or 82 that when asleep in a hotel room in Osaka, Japan,
I woke up every hour on the hour when something in my room beeped. I
cursed the Japanese and the way they treated their guests...

...until the next morning when I was no longer in the hotel room and
the hourly beeps continued. It was my new digital watch that I had
somehow set to do that without realizing it (it was my first digital
watch).
Click to expand...



HA!!!!
 
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
Click to expand...
I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)
Click to expand...

Hi John,

That is HORRIBLE. How could you do that to someone!!!
HOW COULD YOU ????

Where do I get one?

-T
 
Todd <[email protected]> said:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.
Click to expand...
I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)
Click to expand...

Hi John,

That is HORRIBLE. How could you do that to someone!!!
HOW COULD YOU ????

Where do I get one?
Click to expand...
[]
Googling for "electronic cricket" finds a few: http://amzn.to/1bzhmqO,
http://bit.ly/1bzhtCM (kit), http://amzn.to/1bzhAOA,
http://amzn.to/1bzinio ...
 
Todd <[email protected]> said:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.

I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)
Click to expand...

Hi John,

That is HORRIBLE. How could you do that to someone!!!
HOW COULD YOU ????

Where do I get one?
Click to expand...


Googling for "electronic cricket" finds a few: http://amzn.to/1bzhmqO,
http://bit.ly/1bzhtCM (kit), http://amzn.to/1bzhAOA,
http://amzn.to/1bzinio ...
Click to expand...

Actually, that was a joke. First you act all indignant
over some wrong he has supposedly perpetrated on the world.
Stand in judgment big time. Then you try to find out how
ou can do it too.

I have gotten use to having to explain my jokes. :'(
 
Todd said:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
On 01/28/2014 02:51 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.

I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)

Hi John,

That is HORRIBLE. How could you do that to someone!!!
HOW COULD YOU ????

Where do I get one?


Googling for "electronic cricket" finds a few: http://amzn.to/1bzhmqO,
http://bit.ly/1bzhtCM (kit), http://amzn.to/1bzhAOA,
http://amzn.to/1bzinio ...
Click to expand...

Actually, that was a joke. First you act all indignant
over some wrong he has supposedly perpetrated on the world.
Stand in judgment big time. Then you try to find out how
you can do it too.

I have gotten use to having to explain my jokes. :'(
Click to expand...

??? Who was doing all the judging? (just curious).
Then again and in retrospect, I guess we've all been judgemental, on some
occasions. (I have yet to meet someone who hasn't :-).
Click to expand...

Guys! It was a joke. Act judgmental, then do the
same thing. I wasn't making a comment on anyone.
Just a joke!
 
Todd said:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
On 01/28/2014 02:51 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Todd <[email protected]>
writes:
[]
One of the annoyances of modern life is trying to
figure out WHAT THE HELL IS BEEPING! Now, not loud
enough to find, just to annoy. Like a dripping faucet.

I have seen a novelty product - sold under names like "the cricket" -
for reducing someone to a gibbering wreck if placed in their office.
Produces a small beep at about minute intervals. But - and here's the
really evil aspect - can be set to only do so in the dark: so that if
you turn on a light to find it, it shuts up ... (Various companies sell
them.)

Hi John,

That is HORRIBLE. How could you do that to someone!!!
HOW COULD YOU ????

Where do I get one?


Googling for "electronic cricket" finds a few: http://amzn.to/1bzhmqO,
http://bit.ly/1bzhtCM (kit), http://amzn.to/1bzhAOA,
http://amzn.to/1bzinio ...
Click to expand...

Actually, that was a joke. First you act all indignant
over some wrong he has supposedly perpetrated on the world.
Stand in judgment big time. Then you try to find out how
you can do it too.

I have gotten use to having to explain my jokes. :'(
Click to expand...

??? Who was doing all the judging? (just curious).
Then again and in retrospect, I guess we've all been judgemental, on some
occasions. (I have yet to meet someone who hasn't :-).
Click to expand...

Oh I get it. When I said, "you act", I meant the person cracking
the joke. Me in this instance.
 
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