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Or you might find it in the attic or in some strange location in the basement. My present house has the attic location right above where the ding-dong-box hangs in the hallway. My last house had it in the basement mounted right next to the transformer that operated the zone valves for the hot water baseboards. Confusing...

I wouldn't worry about the transformer, most are 16 volt, Just make the connections the same

"grodenhiATgmailDOTcom" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

You can try to find the transformer and see if you can read the label. It's probably a good idea to know where it is anyway. The transformer shouldn't be buried in the wall since they can go bad. It's probably attached to an electrical junction box somewhere or the main fuse/breaker box. They're usually hunks of metal that have a couple of wires like the ones at the chime location under screw terminals.

Doug

Hi, Do you have multi meter? Does new chime has mechanical gongs like the old one? Probably new one is digital chime generator with small speaker or buzzer? Usually tranny is 24V and 16V sounds odd. I think you can measure the voltage from those 3 wires; one is hot and one for front door button one for the rear door. between those wires you'll see open circuit voltage. Then you'll know. Good luck. Tony P.S. Couldn't you just spray pait the old one's cover with your color of chice? color?

Without considering when built?

Most standard chimes operate on 16 volts.

I don't know how to make it more clear. MOST standard electromagnetic coil type doorbell chimes no matter when they were made, use a 16 volt AC transformer.

And if it does not right properly, they look for the transformer. 99.9% sure RBM is correct so just hook it up.