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Dec 12, 2019
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Cougar-Duck
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You need to open up your main intercom inside. That’s where the correct power will come from – the transformer
located inside the main unit on the wall.
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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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