Can I connect the wire to the doorbell chimebox? I want to be able to see the light when someone press the doorbell.
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You would likely need a relay to drive the strobe. Typically it doesn't come on immediately so another form of light might be better for the few seconds the chime switch is closed.
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no, your doorbell chime is 16v AC. the SECO Alarm is 12v DC. It will burn out.
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The transmitter is this device. I guess it would be possible to connect your wired button to this transmitter but you would have to be electronics savvy. If you could work that out then you could conceal the transmitter somewhere. Hard to answer without understanding why you would want to use this with an existing wired doorbell system:
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Many of these doorbell receivers use essentially the same board. You can probably buy just about any Zenith doorbell button (on Amazon or elsewhere - use Google) and have it work with a bit of fiddling with the DIP switches on the receiver. I found that the doorbell button with shipping cost almost as much as the doorbell + receiver, so I just got another combo for now. My first unit lasted only a year, so I'll be upgrading to something of higher quality when this one dies.
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I would guess no, since there is no way to control the doorbell remotely (the doorbell functions like an alarm sensor). If you have a 2Gig system with Alarm.com I would recommend the Chamberlain MYQ setup. It works perfectly and can retrofit to most current garage doors without wiring.
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Yes, you could use it as a door contact if you don't mind how it looks. It would be fairly visible. If you have any molding right at the edge of the door it might get in the way so that you would have to cut out a section for one of the sensors to fit. No reason that I can come up with that it wouldn't work with a door chime.
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There is no visual indication, and the sound is somewhat softer than a standard doorbell. The advantage provided is that you can place the receiver anywhere you can access an AC power outlet. For example, you could use an extension cord to place it on a table next to a favorite chair. You can also purchase several units, use only the transmitter from one, and place the receivers in different rooms. That's what we've done in the two upstairs room where we can't hear the doorbell if we close their doors. My wife has a hearing loss, and she has no trouble hearing the receiver there.
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That is the button that came with it. You can contact Honeywell and see if there are other push buttons that can be purchased that can be synced to the chime. I think you can get different push buttons.
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Yes, you can do that: All you have to do to do it? Just make sure ALL THREE UNITS are "coded" the same. By coded, I mean that you can "customize it" so that there is no interference from neighbors who MIGHT have a similar unit in their homes. In the back of both the chime AND the "bell press" are "tabs" that you can randomly move around, but you have to make sure that they're all the SAME configuration as the others are. Once the button is depressed, BOTH chime units will activate both in your basement AND "wherever you have the other one in the upstairs area". These are "supposed to have a 150' range", but I don't have that much property to "test out that distance"........Hope this helps in your quest. BTW, the "button press" has OUTLASTED ANY other "button press" that I had had in the past, as I live across the street from the Pacific Ocean and the salt air is SO corrosive, so this puppy is pretty well "wrapped up against the elements"........
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My recollection is that the manual says you can initiate a conversation if you plug the doorbell into an electrical outlet or hard wire it to your house AC, but this feature does not work when using batteries.
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I have to be honest, I haven't had it installed yet. A couple of electricians that I had come had problems with it because I do not have a door buzzer for the doorbell. I also needed to purchase an adaptor for it, and I still don't have it in yet. I think if I didn't need it to connect to my door bell, it would be OK.
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you can use the 4 hard wires in the wall, you currently have for your doorbell.....it will save you from routing the wires given..with this unit......BUT !!! you will have to disconnect at both ends whatever your old doorbell system is connected to. Both the old base unit and the doorbell outside. .. you can only use the wires !!!! and re-purpose them to these units. This main unit and remote door unit can only work with each other and the power unit provided. They will not interface to other systems
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Dear Janet,Wiring instructions illustrations look more complicated than it is. Just connect the two wires to any low voltage tranformer. Just be gentle on the install. This is designed to connect to your existing doorbell transformer for power. If that's not your plan, you need a transformer to supply power. thank you for your interest! Best regards,DavidGood Wood Books
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Do you know if you are going to wire this like a normal exterior light or would you be wanting to attach a plug and plug it in a socket on the exterior of the garage like a security light? If you want this like outside your front door, it would probablybe wired and attached to the exterior of your house and connected to a switch on the interior by your front door. Then it could work with a switch. Personally, if you wanted one by your front door, I'd put up a more decorative, maybe even motion-type light. this is really more of a security light, sleak and attractive, but more security.
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Yes. I have an electric wired doorbell. You must purchase a transmitter (comes with one remote) that you "wire" into your door bell on the wall that hopefully rings now. Very simple. That transmitter uses the electrical power from the door bell chime to send a wireless signal to the remote doorbell. I installed the transmitter and two extra remote doorbells, upstairs and basement.
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No, it cant. Worse, I found myself waving my hand over it to get the light to go on. That got old pretty fast. I prefer the hard wired version.
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Mine was the same way. I found a different solution by using a wireless chime. It was a lot of work. I rigged the button to connect to the wired chime. It only worked for one door. Not 2 doors like the extend a chime. But at least it could be heard. Sometimes this stuff doesn't work. What are you going to do?
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Yes. I purchased 2 of these units. Put one bell button at the front door and one at the back door. One strobe in my bedroom and one in the kitchen. Both strobes chime when either button is activated.