Terminating connection

[dk1uk]

Annoyingly, I went to replace the push button of my wired doorbell today and have snapped off the wires and there’s no give.


The chime is wired to the mains, so in terms of replacement, the ideal would be a mains powered chime with a wireless push button...but these don’t seem to exist!


So it looks like a battery powered option is the only option.


Trouble is, I’ll then have redundant live wires behind the new wireless chime. I could just clip and tape them, but I’m guessing that’s not recommended. Am I going to have to get someone in to terminate the connections at the consumer unit?

 

[AndyPRK]

they won't be mains 240V.
Near the fusebox will be a transformer and hopefully switch. Just turn it off. That is sufficient.

 

[winston1]

Annoyingly, I went to replace the push button of my wired doorbell today and have snapped off the wires and there’s no give.


The chime is wired to the mains, so in terms of replacement, the ideal would be a mains powered chime with a wireless push button...but these don’t seem to exist!

Yes they do, or certainly did. I've got one, made by Friedland.

Regarding your broken wires can I suggest you get a small soldering iron and extend them.

 

[dk1uk]

they won't be mains 240V.
Near the fusebox will be a transformer and hopefully switch. Just turn it off. That is sufficient.

Yeah it’s definitely mains, it says 230v inside the chime and I think the transformer is in the chime itself.

 

[dk1uk]

Yes they do, or certainly did. I've got one, made by Friedland.

Regarding your broken wires can I suggest you get a small soldering iron and extend them.

I don’t suppose you can recall the model that you have?

Sadly, soldering won’t work, what’s left of the wiring is too far in the brickwork for me to even try.

 

[dk1uk]

Sorted! Found that the bell cable was running into the garage. Pulled it back into the garage away from the bell push and have extended it and pushed it back through. All working!

I didn’t have any bell cable so just used some CAT 5 cable - is this OK? Or should I replace with some proper bell cable?

Many thanks.

 

[dk1uk]

Or maybe the original installer had used CAT cable anyway? See pic, the cable in going into the top of the bloc is the ordinal and at the bottom is my extension... obviously I’ll tidy it all up...

 

[RF Lighting]

The top cable is cat6. Pretty much any cable at all will be fine for a bell push.

 

[securespark]

16mm T&E would give an exceptional length of run....

 

[dk1uk]

The top cable is cat6. Pretty much any cable at all will be fine for a bell push.

Thank you. But since I’ve used cat5e to extend the cable, is this ok/safe given this it’s coming from a 240v chime albeit with a transformer? Many thanks.

 

[RF Lighting]

Yes it will be fine as your doorbell unit will contain a transformer which reduces the voltage to about 8V at the bell push.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

16mm T&E would give an exceptional length of run....

go on then, show us how to get 16mm connected into a bell push

 

[Tigercubrider]

I filled with my brother's doorbell in a 50's flat and was surprised to find that 240v went to the door push
Thankfully I try to avoid touching any exposed cables as a matter of routine

I recently bought a doorbell from Amazon that plugs into a 13A socket and has a battery operated push button.

 

[securespark]

go on then, show us how to get 16mm connected into a bell push

You failed to recognise that I was being light-hearted.