Hmmm....apparently yeah. I assumed they weren't a thing anymore, but there's one on Amazon for $12.
-----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2022 12:03 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Electronic question Can you just change them both to a school-bell? That seems easiest. My house was wired for a doorbell, but one was never installed. I put in a UBNT Doorbell, and tried to get it to ring a cheap ding/dong chime, but could never get it to work, would sometimes ding, but never dong. I route it through a 24VAC relay to trigger a 24VDC electronic chime now. On 9/6/2022 10:54 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Do you mean like use the relay to trigger the ding-dong after the button is > released and the school-bell is done? > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chris Fabien > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2022 11:41 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Electronic question > > I think you are correct about the cause of the issue, probably the easiest > solution is to leave the buzzer in the main circuit, and wire a 24vac relay > in parallel with it, using the relay contacts to close and open the circuit > to the ding-dong bell. > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 10:08 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
