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Did a (former?) tenant just use wire cutters to silence the low battery beeps ?? And then install a $20 Bunnings / Masters battery detector in its place ? That would cause a fault on the board. And repeated call outs. And a expensive replacement.

Welcome to the word of property ownership. You also acquire all the defects and engineering flaws you haven't found yet.

Mine do. If an electric fire occurs they are designed to still work without mains power. eg a fire in the distribution board. Any smoke detector without batteriy backup would be a bit useless.