no snipped-for-privacy@thanks.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:
I have a DIN rail mounted transformer in my consumer unit.
What we should be able to get is a decent wireless set-up. I envisage a button outside wired through to an internal transmitter unit so that the batteries are kept inside,
That might be the easiest to arrange. The other one I have just connects to the fuse box very likely to one of the lighting circuit fuses. But it was installed sometime ago so I was wondering if any new standards have been introduced in the meantime.
Byron do them. Start here: they have the brass plungers too.
Chugger and survey detection is a recent thing. Ye need a metal discriminator circuit for clipboard carrying verification, and a high voltage supply (IP67 negative) for the metal work of the bell push...
IME, batteries in doorbells are a pain. The batteries corrode and the contacts tarnish which gives you a permanent ongoing maintenance problem. Just the same problems as battery operated thermostats, wireless or otherwise. A mains operated doorbell is a fit and forget operation. Ours was here when we arrived and apart from a new bell push, has operated faultlessly since the house was built in 1973.
Plenty of set ups had pulleys as well, look on the various architectural salvage sites or Ebay for example.
Harry, Where the term Bell End comes from.
Harry " Benefits is paid to tossers who are either thick or idle. With the possible exception of some disabled."
Got your Winter Fuel Payment yet Harry?
You thick idle Tosser.
G.Harman
Church bells? Quasimodo? He was a bit of a crank? No I'm sure there was some pulleys as well. Brian
I like to have some way of easily disabling the doorbell for halloween etc
Owain
Yes. Often called a butler's bell.
Someone I know still has the 19th-century original in their flat.
Owain
Well, if installing a proper mains bell with cables is too much trouble for most on here...
And then you'd have to educate the delivery men on how to use it. Might be difficult since some don't seem to know how to use a bell push. ;-)
I've not seen a new one, but my 30 year old one has an internal fuse anyway. So all the MCB or whatever has to protect is the wiring to it.
The whole point of trick or treat is to trick the bastards by wiring the door push to the mains.
Quite. I'd never use battery or wireless anything unless there is a good reason to do so.
Then they'd just bang on the door. ;-)
Great site! Played the doorbell sounds over and over until the dogs had nervous breakdowns!
Bill
Except for the courier drivers who can leave a note through your letterbox saying "sorry that you were out", when you were waiting for them only a few feet away, and you still didn't know that they were there until too late.
Nor a solid door knocker.
In message , Bill Wright writes
Just tried that. Our dog just sat beside me with her 'what is that knob doing now?' look on her face :-)
They did and I don't see an answer to my question in your link.
Also I have a fuse box not a consumer unit with a DIN rail.
Further one has to be careful to avoid American web sites where the voltage is lower and wiring practices are no doubt different.
TLC are not American (hint: .co.uk would imply that)
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