Need a loud residential door bell...help

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Mule

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Got a elderly lady whom wants a loud door bell, cant find anything. I purchased a Edwards buzzer and installed it today, but dummy me I wasnt paying attention and its 24v not 16v.

Anyone know where I can buy a LOUD decorative residential 16volt bell or buzzer?
 
hardworkingstiff said:
Can you install a 24v transformer?
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Yes, well sort of, rather find a 16v loud one....I looked in the panel for the xfrmr and it must be in the attic....so... its a close friend and a freebe job....in fact she cooked roast and tators for the wife and I this evening....yum yum.... she tried to pay me, but told her I'd let her pay for the buzzer.....
 
Mule said:
Got a elderly lady whom wants a loud door bell, cant find anything. I purchased a Edwards buzzer and installed it today, but dummy me I wasnt paying attention and its 24v not 16v.

Anyone know where I can buy a LOUD decorative residential 16volt bell or buzzer?
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Get a 16v that plays a tune. I got one to hear it while in the pool.
 
Get a wireless extension for the existing chime. There's a transmitter that fits inside the chime, and you can add as many remote chimes (receivers) as you want. They even make receivers with strobes.
 
LarryFine said:
Get a wireless extension for the existing chime. There's a transmitter that fits inside the chime, and you can add as many remote chimes (receivers) as you want. They even make receivers with strobes.
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She's already previously hired another electrician to parallel one into the back bedroom, she cant hear it if the TV is cranked up....
 
alfiesauce said:
could you install a strobe?
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She doesnt want that...she has a flasher on her phone.....but I specificaly asked her. She used to own and manage a furniture store, and said just get me buzzer like we had in the whse. So I guess I'll get a 24v xfrmr and crawl the attic, and use the edwards buzzer..........dont you love freebe's
 
Mule said:
Is it LOUD ??? Im talking 60-70 decibles
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will this work?

requires compressed air.... lot's of it.....:D
(nathan K5LA air horn, north american tune, amtrack standard)


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I once had a situation in a 4 floor condo building where I was stuck with 16v because each floor used a common transformer off the house panel. The customer wanted a buzzer in two locations so we used 2 edwards 8V buzzers wired in series.
 
Fulthrotl said:
will this work?

requires compressed air.... lot's of it.....:D
(nathan K5LA air horn, north american tune, amtrack standard)


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Try this horn...Federal Signal #55...only needs 120V. Careful though, she'll either think there's someone at the door, or the first quarter just ended.:grin:

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ceb58 said:
Find a buzzer from a fire alarm system. I know some old ADT systems were 12/24 volt systems the buzzers were 12v.
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It would be worth a try...see if a piezoelectric 24V fire alarm horn would run on 16V good enough for her needs...
 
Ha Ha, Im not trying to blow this lady out of the chair !!!!....:D.....I think changing the xfrmr to 24v will be the fix with the edwards buzzer I installed ...
 
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