[geeks] Doorbells

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
> Why not just run some Class 2 wire to a real physical button and wire
> it up to whatever you feel like?  Like, say,
> 
>> You know what I *really* want for a doorbell?  I want a T5051
>> aluminum tubular bell, about six feet by about three or four inches
>> or so.  That should make a good tone.
> 
> ...a solenoid pointed at a big aluminum tube? :)

Yeah, that's exactly what I'd really like to do.  I was hoping for a 
short-term interim solution until I can find or fab a suitable chime.

> I'm lucky in this respect; my doorbell was already a wired doorbell.  I
> couldn't hear it when in the machine room, so I ran some wire and
> cobbled together a noisemaker that I *can* hear in the machine room.
> (Then I had problems with the switch not making contact.  I took it
> apart and cleaned it, and also added a parallel LED so that people can
> see the LED go dark when the button works.  The LED doesn't pass enough
> current to trip any of the "bells"....)

Good thought, that.


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