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soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

hi there all the connections the builder made are now either under concrete or inside a brick wall. the fuse board is relatively new and definitely has no doorbell specific trip switches... I think its a transformer i need to find? tx Mark
- fredphoesh
- Post #28
- Jul 29, 2013
- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

hi guys thanks for the responses, the door bell is on a new wall, which is why it is 5m or so further from the old front door. there is a photo of the only other thing I know is related to the door bell in my first post... could the transformer be UNDER this unit? I do not want a wireless...
- fredphoesh
- Post #26
- Jul 29, 2013
- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

yeah, it does seem that way to me, so I wonder if there is anything that can be done to fix it? I suppose if I found the transformer I could see if there is a way to output a higher voltage from it? tx Mark.
- fredphoesh
- Post #20
- Jul 28, 2013
- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

AAH!! I just heard what I said and think that may be the problem!!! THe new doorbell is ILLUMINATED!!! So it's probably sucking up some of the juice needed for the ringing!! Important info I had not thought of... So what to do now then, if I want to keep the illuminated button? tx Mark.
- fredphoesh
- Post #13
- Jul 28, 2013
- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

Hello all you guys, thanks a lot for the comments, some funny, some useful ;) firstly, WRT getting wireless, yeah, could do, but when we build the porch outside the front, pushing the front doorbell a further distance from the ringing unit, the builders used thinnish flex to extend the wire...
- fredphoesh
- Post #12
- Jul 28, 2013
- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
soft ding with no dong - needs replacing!

Hello guys, Weve just added a porch to the house, and the front doorbell is now connected by a cable that is about 5 or 6 meters further... and the ding dong is very limp, sometimes a faint ding, sometimes the odd dong... lousy! I tried buying 4 C-sized batteries but the unit vibrates...
- fredphoesh
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- Jul 27, 2013
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