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Wireless Door Bell
I mounted the door bell push button about 300 feet away near the electric entrance down by the road. The chime unit is in the living room. I took particular care to mount the push button away from other metal/electrical components such as outdoor lighting, an electric fence charger control box, and an automatic gate opener. I tried mounting the push button close to these sources as well as in the vicinity of a heavy duty 3" thick vertical lamp-post pipe, and found it worked best and most reliably if I kept it (and its transmission signal) as far away from those sources as was practically possible. So far, my efforts at trial and error have paid off. The door bell works consistently and reliably as advertised at 325'. For extra-protection I mounted the push button itself is mounted inside a cross-section of 3" thin-wall plastic pipe to protect it from direct exposure to rain and the rays of the sun before attaching it to an outside fence rail. I powered the chime unit by an old 6-volt dc transformer I had lying around, thus eliminating the need for D batteries. The battery for the push button is a simple computer type battery, more widely available these days than the "23A" commonly used in similar but cheaper and less effective units.
This is about the 4th or 5th wireless door bell system I've purchased and so far the most expensive. Brings the mind the old adage about you get what you pay for. The others either never had the range they advertised or worked inconsistently or only for a short while. My experience tells me one reliable way you can evaluate electric door bells is by the battery that powers the push button. If its a common 23A (a small cylindrical 12 volt battery about half the size of the everyday triple-A (AAA) battery, it should be good for a distance of 100' and no more. It you need your push button to be further distant from the chime, go with something like this Honeywell or something with an advertised distance of 500' or 1000'.
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