doorbell control?

[esharped]

simple enough prospect. but label the leads. hundreds of door bell
kits i've installed. now i have to go back to apartment house 4 units
and label the leads.

question 1- tranformer in basement on panel, two wire from transformer
to the bell location one is common or return the other is? feed? i don't know.

question 2- two wire from lobby button to bell location. what are they labeled?

question 3- two wire from outside apartment door. what would they be
labeled?

please some boby help. thanks.

 

[mdshunk]

Label them? Was this a spec you missed, or something like that? Seems weird. Each conductor, or each cable? I'd rather think they want the cables labeled and not each conductor. Lacking specific specs requiring specific labeling, I'm hard-headed enough to label each lead with a non-descriptive number or code letter and call it a job completed.

 

[hardworkingstiff]

......I'm hard-headed enough to label each lead with a non-descriptive number or code letter and call it a job completed.

:grin: :grin:

I would do the same.

 

[Brady Electric]

door bell control

door bell control

I usually put the tranformer at the panel. Then I run two conductor door bell wire one from the transformer to the chime and skin it out, run another to the front door and cut one wire out and one to the back door and leave it alone. I have marked it like I do sw using a crimp in one wire for the front door and one set with two crimps for the back door like I would travellers and for the transformer skin it out as I would the hot. There are so many methods. All these I quess are old timmer methods and the modern thing is to just write or label the wires. Semper Fi.