Delta Touch Faucet
 

So just past our one year warranty and our touch faucet wouldn’t turn on. Blinking red 3 times. Had to go to Utube to find the cause before calling Mike Scott.

So turns out there is a battery pack screwed into back of cabinet. It’s black, so hard to see.

Takes 6AA batteries, replaced them, making sure you remove, replace same sequence.
The faucet is back to working. Too much of a pain to attach back of cabinets, so just stood it against back wall behind hoses.

So if your Delta stops working in a year, fish out the battery pack, and load new batteries. Funny smoke detectors haven’t chirped, yet but dead batteries for faucets.

Had no idea it ran off batteries, guessing will have to add to yearly battery detector change dates.

Wow. I never understood the need for a touch faucet. I won't be buying one.

This may be of use Amazon.com It may require installing a duplex outlet in place of the single outlet used for the garbage disposal. The duplex outlet would have to be split because the disposal outlet is controlled by a switch.

Apples & Oranges. The amount of drain on a smoke alarm vs. opening and closing a water value.

In case something fails, Delta, Moen, etc have great warranties. Some are lifetime. But not for batteries.

Typically, an alkaline battery in a smoke alarm will last about 5 years before it starts to chirp. There is no need to replace these batteries every 6 months like some people recommend. The batteries are only used for backup if your electricity goes out. Otherwise, the smoke alarm system operates on house power.

I think why didn’t we have a touch faucet before!

When your hands are all dirty or greasy it is very easy to just touch any part of the faucet with the back of your hand, wrist, or even your elbow to turn the faucet on.

Delta does have a very good warranty for its products.

Faucet was installed at build, by Mike Scott, paperwork is not in the pile of paperwork.
We Cook and Bake at our house. I know we are not the typical Villager, since we rarely eat out.
Our reasons for touch

Turning water on and off without using hands not only keeps faucets less germ transfer, but fingerprints

Just cut up chicken, definitely don’t want that transfer on anything

Dough, dredge, grease hands says it all. We are installing a touch faucet in the laundry room soon, coming in from garden work I can keep work space cleaner.

This is the first touch faucet I had that requires batteries, at our other homes must have been hard wired. Maybe it a Delta design.

Batteries or not it’s not something I would omit in any of our kitchens

Delta Faucet offers an A/C Power Supply Adapter (EP73954) that can replace the battery pack in a Delta Touch2O kitchen sink faucet with consistent A/C power. This adapter can be plugged into any non-switched 115-Volt outlet in the kitchen sink cabinet. The adapter eliminates the need for batteries and allows for hands-free operation of the faucet.

We have had a Delta Allegro touch faucet. Ours requires battery replacement about every 9 months. It is a PITA because the battery casing doesn’t clip together well. That being said, wouldn’t be without a touch faucet in the kitchen. It’s my understanding that some models support a DC adapter. If you have an unswitched outlet under the sink, it might be the way to go.

Have you had a house built in the last 2 years? Half of our smoke alarms were chirping the day they were installed. Second half chirping day of final walkthrough. Batteries replaced again.

68 days later 3am 6 wildly chirping alarms. We replaced all batteries 2 more times. 2 months prior to 1 year warranty, smoke alarms were replaced.

New ones are 3 months old, 1 began it 4am wake up call.

I thought about using a baseball bat, but all ceilings are 10’ so that’s not going to work.

At least the heavily used faucet took 13 months for new batteries

Have you checked the breaker box to make sure the smoke alarms are connected to the house power? The batteries should only be used when there is a power outage. Otherwise, the batteries just stay dorment in the smoke detectors. One way to extend the battery life is to use lithium batteries, which are supposed to last 10 years. Alkaline batteries should last about 5 years.

Wow seems like much more trouble than its worth

way too much trouble for a faucet.

Why ask us? Call Delta. They warranty and stand behind their products. Moen and Delta for life!