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Hi,
I'm trying to replace my hardwired doorbell chime.
The existing one is wired in to the lights and has a built in transformer.
I bought a replacement that requires 240V & the signal from the button.
The old one had 3 cables going to it and when I removed it to paint the wall it was attached to I assumed 2 would be the power (being on the lighting ring) and 1 would be the signal wire from the button.
When I disconnected the old one I stuck the wires into a terminal block the same way they were into the old chime.
Weeks later I've went to wire it into the new chime and the wiring has me confused. There are 3 x 2 core cables that all look the same cross section. All are brown & blue. The 3 browns (lives?) were wired into 1 terminal on the old one and the 3 blues are labled 1, 2, 3 and semingly went into separate terminals.
Anyone shed any light into wtf is going on?
cheers!
I'm trying to replace my hardwired doorbell chime.
The existing one is wired in to the lights and has a built in transformer.
I bought a replacement that requires 240V & the signal from the button.
The old one had 3 cables going to it and when I removed it to paint the wall it was attached to I assumed 2 would be the power (being on the lighting ring) and 1 would be the signal wire from the button.
When I disconnected the old one I stuck the wires into a terminal block the same way they were into the old chime.
Weeks later I've went to wire it into the new chime and the wiring has me confused. There are 3 x 2 core cables that all look the same cross section. All are brown & blue. The 3 browns (lives?) were wired into 1 terminal on the old one and the 3 blues are labled 1, 2, 3 and semingly went into separate terminals.
Anyone shed any light into wtf is going on?
cheers!