Hi everyone,
Hoping you can help me figure something out.
I've recently moved bought my first flat and the previous owners were a couple that were all but deaf. As a means to cope with this, the intercom system they had installed was rigged to have the lights in the flat flash and there is also an alarm box that will give off a (somewhat ironically) deafening sound.
We've been able to remove the system that flashes the lights, but the alarm box is proving a bit trickier as it doesnt need simply removing, but replacing with a quieter alarm so that we can still tell when there is someone looking to buzz the intercom to our flat.
With the complete ignorance of someone who has limited knowledge of circuits, I imagined all I'd need to do is replace the alarm box with another and it would work. In the current alarm box, there's only two wires and so there shouldnt be any complicated wiring.
However, when I attempted to replace, the new alarm chimed constantly when connected, even when nobody was buzzing to the flat.
The attached pictures:
Pic 1 & 2: The old alarm which I believe is a Kinetic Twin Piezo Sound Bomb
Pic 3: The new door chime, a Byron 761
Pic 4: GDX Intercom Handset
Is anyone able to advise what my problem was?
Hoping you can help me figure something out.
I've recently moved bought my first flat and the previous owners were a couple that were all but deaf. As a means to cope with this, the intercom system they had installed was rigged to have the lights in the flat flash and there is also an alarm box that will give off a (somewhat ironically) deafening sound.
We've been able to remove the system that flashes the lights, but the alarm box is proving a bit trickier as it doesnt need simply removing, but replacing with a quieter alarm so that we can still tell when there is someone looking to buzz the intercom to our flat.
With the complete ignorance of someone who has limited knowledge of circuits, I imagined all I'd need to do is replace the alarm box with another and it would work. In the current alarm box, there's only two wires and so there shouldnt be any complicated wiring.
However, when I attempted to replace, the new alarm chimed constantly when connected, even when nobody was buzzing to the flat.
The attached pictures:
Pic 1 & 2: The old alarm which I believe is a Kinetic Twin Piezo Sound Bomb
Pic 3: The new door chime, a Byron 761
Pic 4: GDX Intercom Handset
Is anyone able to advise what my problem was?
