Patent ID: 8541124

Claim:
A kit for remotely locating a smoke detector battery from a surface mounted smoke detector, said smoke detector comprising an internal two wire battery connector for connection to a smoke detector battery of a first voltage, said kit comprising: a first connector arranged to mate with said internal two wire battery connector and having a first pair of first electrical wire conductors, each of said first electrical wire conductors connectable at one end to said two wire battery connector; a thin flexible tape wire comprising a pair of elongate, flat electrical conductors, said tape wire mountable to a flat surface, said surface being one of the same surface upon which said smoke detector is surface mounted or a surface adjacent to the surface upon which said smoke detector is surface mounted; a second connector configured to connect said first pair of electrical wire conductors to a first end of said flexible tape wire pair elongate, flat electrical conductors; and a smoke detector battery container, said container comprising contacts for electrically connecting said battery container to a second end of said flexible tape wire pair of elongate, flat electrical conductors, said container being surface mountable at a location on a surface to provide convenient access; said battery container comprising a plurality of battery holders, said plurality of battery holders comprising: a first battery holder configured such that a first battery providing said first voltage may be retained therein to provide said first voltage to said container contacts, and a plurality of second battery holders configured to retain a predetermined number of second batteries, each of said second batteries providing a second voltage; said predetermined number of said second batteries times said second voltage is equal to said first voltage; said plurality of second battery holders are connected in series and said serially connected plurality of second battery holders are connected in parallel to said container contacts with said first battery holder; and said container is configured such that if a first battery is retained in said first battery holder, at least one of said second batteries is blocked from being inserted into a corresponding one of said second battery holders such that the connection of said serially connected second plurality of second batteries to said container contacts is open.