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Originally Posted by headingtoDenver
This is what I would recommend as well. Our doorbell broke and after trying a few things, it remained broken. Instead of wasting anymore time on it, we just bought a wireless doorbell. Heck, ours you didn't even need to screw anything in. The button portion came with double-sided tape.
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So, this thread motivated me to really look into what was going on with my doorbell. I started by removing the doorbell button and touching the two wires together. No chime. So, this pushes me to the chime box or the transformer. I looked at the chime box and noticed that one of the plungers was seized. I verified the connections and everything was proper. Just to make sure, I looked at the transformer with a multimeter and there was no reading on the output end, but there was a valid reading on the input end.
So, off to Home Depot I went. I ended up picking up a contractors grade doorbell kit which included new buttons, new chime box, and new transformer for about 15 bucks.
I turned off the power which controlled the doorbell. I started out by replacing the transformer which was very straight forward. I then replaced the chime box followed by the button itself. I switched the power back on and right away I noticed that the doorbell button was lit up. I pushed the button and a prompt Ding Dong chimed in the house. Success!!! At this point though, I didn't like the look of the button and the previous button was a really nice bronze looking button. I put the existing button back on and low and behold, it worked like a champ.
I suspect that somehow the chime box seized up which in turn fried the transformer.
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