Recent content by FussyLady

PS. I did warn you I was fussy!

Sorry, long day, missed the bit about transformer to bell push. Have had the plug in chimes before though and had problems with those too. Not adverse to giving another try with the bell push variation but just in case it doesn't work I would like to lay cables for the fully wired method...

Works every time for the first few months and then everything gives up the ghost and new batteries don't have an impact

The guy at Byron told me I would need a 3amp transformer. Hence the starting question

That makes sense; I never considered arcs. The wiring diagram we have daisy chains the chimes to run in parallel rather than taking them all back to transformer. The bell pushes are then wired to the 1st and 3rd chime. Effectively the two bell pushes create different circuits so that I get...

Confused by this - all the bell push does is complete a circuit; how does it "know" how many chimes it is affecting. This seems a bit overkill at 8-12V? Still wondering if I could double up ordinary bell wire with a three amp transformer at 8-12V to increase load bearing capacity?

Don't really want a door entry system to be honest. Neither house nor area imply a need for such a system and my hearing is bad enough to make talking over such devices difficult. Just need to position chimes so that I can hear them easily

Thanks. The person that advised me to use a 3amp transformer said we could use ordinary bell wire which I wasn't convinced about. However in the meantime we have bought a load of bell wire. Can we just double it, ie use two cores for each connection so that load is effectively shared?

Don't think this is uncommon though. We had a CU moved a few years back by an electrician (pre-part P I believe) - didn't feel it was something we should do ourselves! Recently had the floor up and found a variety of "joins", mostly in junction boxes which I think would have been legal at...

Hi all, I'm looking at putting 3 wired chimes in different locations around the house (with two bell pushes). I don't want to go wireless as we've tried this in the past and nothing seems to last more than 6 months. I've been advised that I will probably need a 3Amp transformer rather...

1) yes, but it does vary from softener to softener. A lot of softeners have 15mm pipes so this is bound to restrict flow. Make sure you get one with a large bore and flow rate if you want to run high volume showers etc. 2. yes, if you have the type that is regenerated on a timer at night...