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If not, find a friend or family member who does. If you can, find several different doorbells that you can test out. Do they all sound the same? How loud are their chimes?
Do they all last the same amount of time? Compare the different doorbells you come across. If possible, make a recording of the various sounds and then play them back for a friend or family member. Which one is their favorite? If you're up for a field trip, ask an adult to head to the hardware store with you to check out their selection of doorbells. Can you find a really cheap model that you could buy and take home to test?
Have fun examining all the inner parts of the doorbell. Do you see how all the parts work together to make the sound? If you can, hook up a power source, so you can watch the doorbell in action. Have fun seeing how doorbells are engineered from the inside out!
Up for a challenge? Imagine what life would be like without the doorbell. Many doorbell units make two sounds: one for the front door, the other for the back door.
The button and small-gauge wires that run from the button to the doorbell and transformer are normally safe to work on without shutting off the power. Nevertheless, be careful. Even the low-voltage side of an electrical system may carry dangerous current in certain conditions where the transformer has failed, though this is fairly rare. Avoid shock by testing the transformer first.
Connect the negative battery output to one of the wires coming from the door button. Connect the other wire from the button to the second contact in the bell housing. Another, more permanent, repair for an old doorbell circuit is to use a small ac adapter in place of the battery. Most people will have an AC adapter left after an old radio or similar device has long since died. Look for an output of 10 to 16 volts printed on the side of the adapter casing.
Current ratings will typically be very low from these adapters, around mA, making them perfect to power the doorbell circuit. All that is needed is a conveniently located receptacle to plug the adapter in. Avoid an adapter with more than about mA, too much current will overpower the bell circuit.
To connect the doorbell take one wire from the adapter and splice it with a wire run to the input contact in the bell housing. Splice the second adapter wire with one of the wires from the door button.
Connect the second button wire to the other contact in the bell housing. If you're installing a new doorbell, a remote controlled device makes for the simplest installation and doesn't require any of the circuitry illustrated on this page. All that's required is to mount the button near an exterior door and the chimes in a convenient, central location inside the house. No need to run wires or splice into household circuits, fresh batteries are all that's required. Repairing a faulty doorbell is fairly simple due to the limit number of complex parts involved.
Some chimes have separate terminals for front and back door applications. Each terminal produces a different sound so you know at which door the visitor has arrived. Only the chime is different. The mechanism and the voltage required to produce the sound are the same for either terminal.
If you need to work on a doorbell, or test one of its component parts, the voltage should be low enough to prevent injury. However, the caveat remains -- always check the device with a volt meter or other electrical tester designed for checking voltage before proceeding. A failed transformer does not step down voltage, so the output could be the same volts that enters the transformer.
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