doorbell that rings in two places

[HoosierMark]

wiring my new house for a door bell. Would like one that has a ringer for first floor as well as one I can put in basement workshop. Do they make such an item? I tried searching but when you put in "double ringer door bell" it wants to send you to two tone for front and back door.

 

[Gooch]

buy two bells, a xfmr large enough for the two, and wire the two in parallel.

 

[Higgins]

Go Wireless!

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[Gary S]

I tried wireless. Once it got cold, they couldn't transmit enough signal to get through the wall. Went back to wire. It works!

 

[anthony666]

i had a wireless doorbell, i live in the country and no one ever comes to the house that doesn't just open the door and come in .. the battery died in the button, so the inside bit latched onto a signal it found that was near in range, which turned out to be my tv remote .. i lost my mind for days trying to figure out what the hell was dinging every time i changed the channel .. i finally tore it off the wall and fixed it with splitting maul .. now if i get a very rare stranger coming to the door they knock

 

[p_mori7]

Mine was installed when the house was built in 1981...front door goes Ding Dong !... side door goes Ding ! Both switches are wired to the same bell. I've never taken it apart to see how it works. I imagine there are 2 solenoids in it.

 

[ishiboo]

i had a wireless doorbell, i live in the country and no one ever comes to the house that doesn't just open the door and come in .. the battery died in the button, so the inside bit latched onto a signal it found that was near in range, which turned out to be my tv remote .. i lost my mind for days trying to figure out what the hell was dinging every time i changed the channel .. i finally tore it off the wall and fixed it with splitting maul .. now if i get a very rare stranger coming to the door they knock

That's fairly unlikely to happen to anyone other than you

First off, TV remotes are 99.99% IR not RF like doorbells. The few exceptions being oddballs and remotes designed to work in a different room such as the dual-tuner, dual-remote Dish boxes.

Second, newer wireless doorbells are programmed to the remotes.

 

[Zeke]

Mine was installed when the house was built in 1981...front door goes Ding Dong !... side door goes Ding ! Both switches are wired to the same bell. I've never taken it apart to see how it works. I imagine there are 2 solenoids in it.

That's correct. One hits left and right and the other only hits in one direction. It's done with springs.

 

[justsam]

Sounds like you want a door bell that has two ringer locations so that you can hear it when in the basement, as well as hear it on the first floor.

Several have described a single ringer that is capable of distinctive ring based on button location, e.g. front door or back door. AS I understand it, that is not what you are looking for.

If you are in the wiring stages now, just run another bell wire pair, or most use cat 5 now just because it is cheap and available and you can double up pairs. Run this cable from your bell transformer/ringer location to the place you want the second ringer. The ringers will be wired in parallel and both will sound with a button push.

In my room I have a wired door bell, but a wireless extension ringer in the other end of the house. The wireless transmitter is located where the original ringer and transformer are, and it sends a signal to the remote ringer, which plugs into any AC outlet.

 

[HoosierMark]

justsam, you understand what I am looking for. I will talk to my elec guy about your info. (he probably knows it all already as he is a pro who takes pride in his work, I just did not want to wait until Monday to ask) Thanks. I have not bought a doorbell yet just ran some pairs of wires from the doors (back and front) to the bell location and then to the elec panel for the transformer to have power.

 

[Mr_fixit]

wiring my new house for a door bell. Would like one that has a ringer for first floor as well as one I can put in basement workshop. Do they make such an item? I tried searching but when you put in "double ringer door bell" it wants to send you to two tone for front and back door.

I did this. You just need a powerful enough transformer to operate 2 separate ringers/doorbells. Any typical bell can be used.

 

[The Cobbler]

as others have said you need a transformer with enough current to run both bells. the ones packed in the kit won't do it, buy one with at least double .

 

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[jeffmoss26]

I did this for a customer's warehouse. Used a larger transformer from a burglar alarm system and 2 chimes, with a switch mounted by the dock door. Worked great.

 

[Mickey O]

Believe or not, I just did the very same thing the other day (pics below) at the garage. I used a Remcon relay that has a transformer built in, I used thermostat wire from the door bell button to the relay that's in the same box as the first bell (the other bell is on the other side of the wall). In my case I used 120 volt bells so you may not want to go that route, but if you do just get a Remcon RC-120S. The only issue is the bells only ring while the button is pushed (whereas an actual doorbell rings a couple of times from one push), you can make it ring longer with a time delay relay if desired.


Not sure why but I've done tons of doorbells, even one with lights for a deaf family. Anyhow, there's a million ways to do it, a relay with an additional transformer using one of the doorbells transformer to activate the relay, a double pole button (don't think they make a double pole doorbell buttons so you'd have to use a different one), you could use a small 24 volt transformer to activate a two pole relay that will then act as an isolated switch for two separate doorbell units in each location............

Have your electrician take a look and see what he says and how much $$$, interestingly enough we had an electrician give us a quote on doing the one I just did and it was $1200, now you know why I did it myself.

 

[warrenw]

buy two bells, a xfmr large enough for the two, and wire the two in parallel.

This is the simplest and best method. Just ask at Home Depot for a larger VA doorbell transformer mad run a three conductor wire between the two door bells.


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