this beep is driving me nuts - can't find where it's coming from UPDATE: Found!!!

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nanette1985

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Something in my place is beeping quietly every 2 minutes. It's not the phones, the electronics, the kitchen, the smoke and CO2 detectors, or toys or anything I can discover.

Either I'll find it, or go insane.

Weird beeping noises anyone?

UPDATE: Found it! PSE&G (utility) recently updated our exterior meters - something went wrong, meter was beeping. Repair dude was outside fixing them. Yay, beep stopped.
 
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nanette1985 said:
Something in my place is beeping quietly every 2 minutes. It's not the phones, the electronics, the kitchen, the smoke and CO2 detectors, or toys or anything I can discover.

Either I'll find it, or go insane.

Weird beeping noises anyone?
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These suggestions are courtesy of the International Institute of the Obvious:

1. Stand in each room of your house for 2 minutes plus.

2. Go to your fuse box, where hopefully the breakers are labeled, and turn off each one-by-one until you have isolated the creepy-beeper to one circuit.

3. Either increase, decrease, or change the cocktail of drugs, both legal and illegal, that you are presently ingesting until the noise either goes away or reveals itself to be the true voice of God.

4. Move.
 
GrumpyMan

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My smoke alarm used to do that when the battery was completely out. Drove me nuts for a couple of days.
 
Jeff7

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The computer?

Mine makes a split-second beep every few days. No idea why, but it seems like it's a thing with Gigabyte motherboards. (The last two I've had will do this.)
 
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Pardus

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nanette1985 said:
Something in my place is beeping quietly every 2 minutes. It's not the phones, the electronics, the kitchen, the smoke and CO2 detectors, or toys or anything I can discover.

Either I'll find it, or go insane.

Weird beeping noises anyone?
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Check for motion sensor, clock, smoke detector, anything that uses batteries

Cut power to the house, do you still hear it?
Get a Sound Level Decible Reader to track it down
 
highland145

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The new coffee pot in the back of the office. After 3 weeks, my 10 year old figured it out.
 
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spidey07

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Beep!

In all seriousness, it's probably the smoke detectors. I've found it's really difficult to locate where the sound is coming from in that tone even if you're right next to the offending device.

Alarm system?
 
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gorcorps

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Many public bathrooms have automated air fresheners in them. When they're out they beep instead of spraying which is once every few minutes or so. Have a bathroom nearby?
 
Rubycon

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I love Onomatopoeia! :biggrin:

That said 4.5-5.5kHz sinus tones can be difficult to locate due to psycho-acoustics. You can trace it down with ease, it does take patience and (preferably) you should be alone. ;)
 
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spidey07

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Rubycon said:
I love Onomatopoeia! :biggrin:

That said 4.5-5.5kHz sinus tones can be difficult to locate due to psycho-acoustics. You can trace it down with ease, it does take patience and (preferably) you should be alone. ;)
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I sat staring at a smoke detector after 30 minutes of trying to locate which one was the culprit and thought for SURE I had the right one.

Nope, it was the one in the other room. I can't locate that frequency for crap. I'd go back and forth between two rooms and never really know if I had the right one.
 
Rubycon

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Get a frequency app for your phone and generate a frequency that is slightly higher or lower producing an off beat sound. Granted with the intermittent nature of a beep this makes it a bit more difficult but it does help find them.
 
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coaster831

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Do you have FIOS? The battery backup unit will beep if the battery can't charge anymore... took me forever to find it when it happened to me.
 
Bacstar

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Ever since I had a metal heart valve implanted, I have this constant clicking inside my head. If only i was so lucky to just deal with a mystery beep ;)
 
highland145

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Bacstar said:
Ever since I had a metal heart valve implanted, I have this constant clicking inside my head. If only i was so lucky to just deal with a mystery beep ;)
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You should start to worry if you stop having the clicking in your head.
 
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