Anyone ever replace their doorbell?
Turns out mine has been dead for.. I guess a year now, but it's not like I would know since I never ring my own door bell.
(I wonder how many people I missed because of this?)
The mains wiring to the transformer had 120V, but the transformer itself produced no voltage (should be around 16V).
I pulled the chime and the transformer off the wall, and one of the "plungers" that makes the noise was flat out MELTED. We had some bad storms about a year ago where the power cut on/off about a dozen times in a 5 minute period, so this probably did it.
Anyway it's weird -- the transformer has 3 wires (black, white, green) but the green wire was snipped off so that it couldn't be connected to the ground wire. (the junction box this was in has a bare copper ground) The builder of the home must have done this. But why? Wouldn't grounding the transformer have kept it from dying during a power surge?
Turns out mine has been dead for.. I guess a year now, but it's not like I would know since I never ring my own door bell.
(I wonder how many people I missed because of this?)
The mains wiring to the transformer had 120V, but the transformer itself produced no voltage (should be around 16V).
I pulled the chime and the transformer off the wall, and one of the "plungers" that makes the noise was flat out MELTED. We had some bad storms about a year ago where the power cut on/off about a dozen times in a 5 minute period, so this probably did it.
Anyway it's weird -- the transformer has 3 wires (black, white, green) but the green wire was snipped off so that it couldn't be connected to the ground wire. (the junction box this was in has a bare copper ground) The builder of the home must have done this. But why? Wouldn't grounding the transformer have kept it from dying during a power surge?