If the battery fails you replace it. They are accessible from outside the safe. I'm more concerned with the electronics failing. I prefer the old dial type lock.

 

Yea, failing electronics would be a worse problem. Didn't know you accessed the battery compartment from outside. I think I would prefer an 'old fashioned' dial lock anyways.

The battery compartment and keypad are all outside. Being familiar with electronics, I don't trust them - not that they will fail, but that they can be bypassed/hacked. If someone can setup a skimmer at an ATM without people noticing, then hacking a four digit code on an inexpensive electronic safe is not too difficult IMO.

 

Safe cracking requires skills, skills that are specific to safe cracking, only. Less and less of these guys are around IMO, and I'm sure they want a bigger payday than my little combo safe - they'd be more interested in stores and banks and such. Surely, a dial combination is not a quick access method, but, the inconvenience has an upside.

Lock 'em up good in metal. Fireproof is a bonus because your home insurance probably does not cover enough. You can't keep out a real safe cracker but that is not who will be in your house. You just have to protect from the 5 minute herion kid down the block.It took me 2 hours to peel a fairly good safe when the dial combo failed.Welded the top back on after I fixed the dial & mechanism.