You might have a current limiting resistor in series with the transformer output

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Dec 12, 2019
7:03:45pm

charles All-American

You might have a current limiting resistor in series with the transformer output

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charles

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It just spent like an hour and a half trying to replace our old intercom doorbell with a new arlo camera one and

Slim Broscience major

12/12/19 6:54pm

Did you make it all 220?

BigD Coug

12/12/19 6:55pm

220, 221, whatever it takes

fredgarvin

12/12/19 7:17pm

^^^ Fabulous Mr Mom reference..

FulhamUte

12/12/19 8:02pm

How old is house? Mine is just over 2 years old and we had to get a transformer to make anything work

Jimo Dashen

12/12/19 6:57pm

Built in 2003

Slim

12/12/19 6:59pm

This is what I’d do. On a typical doorbell there are only 2 wires, how many wire

Nuke

12/12/19 9:51pm

You might have a current limiting resistor in series with the transformer output

charles

12/12/19 7:03pm

Check inside your doorbell chime housing.

charles

12/12/19 7:04pm

What is it I'm supposed to check?

Slim

12/12/19 7:05pm

The doorbell chime housing.

Zaphod

12/12/19 7:09pm

Take the cover off the chime.

charles

12/12/19 7:09pm

I'm try trying to replace this intercom which looks like the first picture front the front and the second picture when

Slim

12/12/19 7:15pm

That little motherboard has a pos and neg terminal and it was the wires that connected there that I tried to use to

Slim

12/12/19 7:18pm

Do you have a meter to measure the voltage?

charles

12/12/19 7:34pm

No. I will need to get one.

Slim

12/12/19 7:36pm

Pick one up from harbor freight for a lot cheaper then you can at Home Depot.

Nuke

12/12/19 9:52pm

It will work. The trick is finding the wire from the doorbell intercom outside and figure out

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:36pm

Try this

charles

12/12/19 7:37pm

I am pretty sure my solution will work for you or set up. See my posts below.

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:47pm

What is the power spec of the new camera?

charles

12/12/19 7:36pm

It says "voltage between 16V AC and 24V AC and a 10VA transformer

Slim

12/12/19 7:39pm

Try cougarduck suggestions above.

charles

12/12/19 7:49pm

Weird. The cameras I have in your house are all working fine.

Zaphod

12/12/19 7:03pm

This is a stupid response but I'd take that back and get a Nest Hello

cougarnerd

12/12/19 7:18pm

I already have 3 other arlo cameras

Slim

12/12/19 7:19pm

I got rid of all my Arlo's and bought into the Nest ecosystem once

cougarnerd

12/12/19 7:36pm

I understand the frustration. I spent an hour and half trying to figure out the

cougaman

12/12/19 7:23pm

Here is my guess on what you need to do:

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:27pm

The transformer inside will look something like this

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:31pm

You need to open up your main intercom inside. That’s where the correct power will come from – the transformer

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:38pm

I think I get it. Since I have multiple intercoms I need to find which one is the main one and that one should have the

Slim

12/12/19 7:48pm

You just need to figure out where the wire from your front doorbell unit goes to the inside. From the inside,

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:51pm

The key is finding the right wire inside the main unit that comes from the outside front doorbell. Once you find

Cougar-Duck

12/12/19 7:50pm

Oregon always has our solutions.

Albuq_Coug

12/12/19 8:09pm

Were you able to get it working?

Cougar-Duck

12/13/19 10:02am

Haha no.

Slim

12/13/19 2:49pm

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