Ever replaced a door bell transformer?

[C5Engineer 1170]

I swear the weirdest stuff goes out when I am deployed. We had one those fancy doorbell cameras installed from our alarm company about a month ago. It was pretty cool... good video, live stream of the front of my house from my phone, two way comms with anyone on the front porch from my phone, etc. Well it went offline after a few weeks of operation. They have sent out two "techs" now and both confirmed that it there has no power getting to it. They wired it to the low voltage wires where the stock 20 year working door bell was at.

They cut us a check for $225 and said hire an electrician. I understand how the system works but finding the transformer itself has proven challenging. Every website I've tried gives typical locations all of which have turned up nothing so far. The chime box has a schematic but again who knows where the actual transformer is. Before my wife has to let a stranger in our house to root around looking for an $11 part that he's gonna charge us $200 for I thought I would check with you guys to see if anyone had any else to add. We have this style of chime box. Always a fun exercise in communication when troubleshooting something like this with you wife via text message from half a world away!

Edited 17 Oct 2015 by C5Engineer

[KFfan 151]

My early 70s NuTone is mounted in the attic screwed to a ceiling joist in the vicinity above the chime

Lou

Edited 17 Oct 2015 by KFfan

[EDMO 1078]

I have always refused to have a door bell because of kids and salesmen - But, has anyone checked the circuit breakers?

EdMO

[dholly 718]

If it is to code, it probably is attached to it's own work box. This is what mine looks like.

[marksires 484]

In my old house it was attached to the circuit breaker box in the basement (surface mount box).  I haven't found the one in my new house, but I'll admit I haven't looked very hard.

[KFfan 151]

Mine's not useable. The house faces south and the sun melts the push button. I haven't replaced it

[C5Engineer 1170]

She located it right behind the chime box. Should be an easy enough of a swap if that is indeed the problem. Wish I was home.

[marshawk 82]

Wow good fined, im an electrician for about 30 years and never seen it hid behind the door chime before, if you have a voltmeter handy it would be reading 12 volts or there abouts if its still working

[EDMO 1078]

Wow good fined, im an electrician for about 30 years and never seen it hid behind the door chime before, if you have a voltmeter handy it would be reading 12 volts or there abouts if its still working

Isn't this the most useful airplane site ever started... 

EdMO

Edited 20 Oct 2015 by EDMO

[KFfan 151]

I believe the subject is germane.

One never knows when those people arrive to present  you with that HUGE check for a gazillion dollars. You would never have to repair or build another airplane…

If the door bell didn’t work you how would they notify you?

Lou

[Av8r3400 1178]

Germane:  today's vocabulary word of the day. 

Adjective.  Relevant to a subject under consideration. 

 

Now use use it in a sentence before you go to bed. 

 

[EDMO 1078]

Germane:  today's vocabulary word of the day. 

Adjective.  Relevant to a subject under consideration. 

 

Now use use it in a sentence before you go to bed. 

 

I heard that word used in Smoky and the Bandit movie once - Guess it has nothing to do with the Germans?

And, my post above referring to "Airplane Site" was a compliment, that we can get on here and fix ANY Pilot's problem!

EDMO

Edited 21 Oct 2015 by EDMO

[KFfan 151]

And, my post above referring to "Airplane Site" was a compliment, that we can get on here and fix ANY Pilot's problem!

EDMO

So then its a "Pilot" site?

[marksires 484]

Of course it is, a pilot site about airplanes.  I don't think too many planes are logging on and reading these posts.  It might be fun to read what they post about their pilots though!

[KFfan 151]

One never knows what is really in ADS-B?

[marksires 484]

That is indeed true.  I remember a sci fi book I read where all the household machines were semi-intelligent.  They amused themselves by gossiping about their owners with machines in other households.  The hero in the book was able to listen to this gossip and use that information to bring down the 'bad guys'.  I thought it was ludicrous at the time, after all, who needs a semi-intelligent refrigerator? (since it is generally a semi-intelligent guy opening it?)  But now here we are, with refrigerators that will order your beer when it gets too low, and all the tech talk is about the growth of the 'internet of things'.

Mark