door bell

[paul b b]

hello chaps,

customer wants a new doorbell fitted, well just the button part, she has got a old style round one.

the existing cable is to short as she wants it repositiond, can i use speaker cable? i dont want to buy a ball of bell wire for the sake of 1m,

also any thing to watch out for? olr are the straight forward to fit?

thanks

paul

 

[ElectekAir]

Striaght forward. bell wire is about

 

[initforthemoney]

Some would have you rewiring it in 6mm2 because of the extra lengthROTFWL

 

[a1]

If you do wire it in speaker wire the only thing that you would have to be careful of is...

... When the client has the radio on, the doorbell may ring.

ROTFWL

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[batty]

I always use alarm cable for doorbells.

 

[Apache]

Wilkinsons sell bell wire by the meter..........

 

[ProDave]

Try your local hardware store. The one in my town sells all sorts of wire, including bell wire by the metre.

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

I always use alarm cable for doorbells.

I am in concurrences with Batty on this one...

generally I have got a roll/part roll of 6-core alarm cable knocking around...

So I use that rather than using actually bell wire....

Think the last time I used bell wire was when Customer had bought a doorbell kit and asked me to install it while i was there...

Kit included a short coiled of bell wire! :Blushing

All I can say is never try using an off cut of 10.0mmT&E...

its a sod to whittle down to poke in them small terminals in the back of the bell-push!



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