A simple experiment is to put them in series. Might work. Probably not work well. Or up the VA rating of the transformer.
From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 8:07 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Electronic question I know some of you are really good at this stuff….. I’m in a 95 year old house. There are two doorbells. I just replaced the front doorbell with a new cheapo from Lowes. Two chimes and two solenoids. One solenoid fires when you press the button, and the other fires when you release the button so you get the “ding-dong”. There’s an old doorbell in the back kitchen that sounds like an old school bell. Two coils make the clacker move rapidly back and forth striking the bell repeatedly. Well, when I hooked up both the old and new bell at the same time, the school bell goes off when you press the button and the new one just goes “dong” when you release the button. Either one works fine hooked up separately. I’m guessing the first solenoid never fires on the new doorbell because the school bell is a way heavier load and takes all the current. I could just replace the school bell, but I kinda like the nostalgic factor. And I suppose the other easy answer is put them on separate transformers triggered by the same switch. Is there some simple nerd-gineer answer like “just put a resistor here”? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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