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A Really Lazy Way to Replace a Broken Doorbell
I should be ashamed of myself, but…
A year ago, maybe two years ago, our doorbell stopped working.
Well, no, that’s not it. It kept on working. That is, it rang incessantly and would not stop. The button wasn’t stuck, nobody had pushed it, it just started ringing.
Oh, that’s not quite true. It didn’t ring, it buzzed. It took me a few minutes to locate that because it certainly wasn’t making the normal doorbell noise. But when I got near it, the source was obvious.
A short in the low voltage wiring or a defect in the doorbell itself had to be the cause, so I immediately dug out a voltmeter and began to debug the fault.
Yeah, in some other life maybe. I just disconnected the wires to stop the noise and left it that way.
No Doorbell?
We are lefty liberal atheists in an over 55 community. Let’s just say that most of our neighbors are differently inclined and that hardly anyone unexpected ever approaches our door.
And Covid has made neighborly visits even less likely, so not having a working doorbell has not been any great hardship.
