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Hello all, Newbie arriving
I have been around electrics for most of my 50 year working life in various forms, strangled a few miles of cable and played with electrons at the Ion stage, worked with Laser comms, Fibre optics and designed a few dozen computer circuits.
Technology has changed so much since I retired 5 years ago, and, as I cannot find guidance on what I would like, I thought I would ask the professionals here.
I want a doorbell, simple you say? But not just any doorbell, I already have the usual doorbell-transformer-bell located in my hallway, but I cannot hear it if I am in the garden or in my shed.
So what I am after is a system that runs through the ringmains.
Ie. you plug the bell-push into the mains via an (as yet) unknown to me box, then the bell plugs in anywhere else on the ringmain.
My strangling cable life stopped when it changed from the 15th edition (a long time ago) and I 'mess around' as my wife calls it in my shed. The shed is a single spur from the downstairs ringmain, so if I am in the shed I could just plug the doorbell end in there.
Before you suggest radio (I have tried), there are 5 solid walls and no direct line of sight between the bell-push and where I will be, also there is sporadic radio interferance here.
Any and all suggestions welcome, many thanks, MichaelT
I have been around electrics for most of my 50 year working life in various forms, strangled a few miles of cable and played with electrons at the Ion stage, worked with Laser comms, Fibre optics and designed a few dozen computer circuits.
Technology has changed so much since I retired 5 years ago, and, as I cannot find guidance on what I would like, I thought I would ask the professionals here.
I want a doorbell, simple you say? But not just any doorbell, I already have the usual doorbell-transformer-bell located in my hallway, but I cannot hear it if I am in the garden or in my shed.
So what I am after is a system that runs through the ringmains.
Ie. you plug the bell-push into the mains via an (as yet) unknown to me box, then the bell plugs in anywhere else on the ringmain.
My strangling cable life stopped when it changed from the 15th edition (a long time ago) and I 'mess around' as my wife calls it in my shed. The shed is a single spur from the downstairs ringmain, so if I am in the shed I could just plug the doorbell end in there.
Before you suggest radio (I have tried), there are 5 solid walls and no direct line of sight between the bell-push and where I will be, also there is sporadic radio interferance here.
Any and all suggestions welcome, many thanks, MichaelT