olifer
New Member
I am having issues with various devices in my home and in trying to troubleshoot them, I'm of the opinion that I have some sort of electrical issue. Here's what's going on:
1.) My house was built in 1995, and everything has been working just fine until a couple of weeks ago. (north climate, very cold for awhile.)
2.) A couple of weeks ago, my internet modem/router would not stay connected to the provider, and the router kept resetting to factory defaults on its own. Both devices were replaced.
3.) Smoke detectors: 4 AC wired Kidde smoke/CO detectors that were installed less than two years ago in various parts of the home. They started chirping and giving low battery warnings at about the same time that the internet issues were going on. I replaced all of the batteries, which seems to help for a couple of days, then one or more of them will start chirping every 30 to 60 seconds (fault indicator). If I unplug them from AC and leave them on my kitchen counter, they're just fine on battery only. One of them has not chirped for about a week, whereas the others have been at different intervals...usually after we're up and starting our day. These detectors are NOT all on the same circuit. A couple of them share the circuit that the modem/router are on but the others do not.
4.) Simplisafe security system. Will lose connection with the router, and will then randomly "report" something like "System unarmed" while we're just sitting in the house and the unit hadn't been armed in the first place.
5.) Nest thermostat (which gets its power from the furnace) ... died and had to be replaced.
We have not had any brown outs, rolling black outs, or any other things like dim/flickering lights or clocks resetting to factory, etc., just all of these "small" devices throughout our home, all acting up and failing all at once.
Any help and assistance on how I can begin to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated and welcomed.
1.) My house was built in 1995, and everything has been working just fine until a couple of weeks ago. (north climate, very cold for awhile.)
2.) A couple of weeks ago, my internet modem/router would not stay connected to the provider, and the router kept resetting to factory defaults on its own. Both devices were replaced.
3.) Smoke detectors: 4 AC wired Kidde smoke/CO detectors that were installed less than two years ago in various parts of the home. They started chirping and giving low battery warnings at about the same time that the internet issues were going on. I replaced all of the batteries, which seems to help for a couple of days, then one or more of them will start chirping every 30 to 60 seconds (fault indicator). If I unplug them from AC and leave them on my kitchen counter, they're just fine on battery only. One of them has not chirped for about a week, whereas the others have been at different intervals...usually after we're up and starting our day. These detectors are NOT all on the same circuit. A couple of them share the circuit that the modem/router are on but the others do not.
4.) Simplisafe security system. Will lose connection with the router, and will then randomly "report" something like "System unarmed" while we're just sitting in the house and the unit hadn't been armed in the first place.
5.) Nest thermostat (which gets its power from the furnace) ... died and had to be replaced.
We have not had any brown outs, rolling black outs, or any other things like dim/flickering lights or clocks resetting to factory, etc., just all of these "small" devices throughout our home, all acting up and failing all at once.
Any help and assistance on how I can begin to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated and welcomed.