erickendall
New Member
Hello everyone. My first time here. I don't know much about electronics and I was hoping for a little advice regarding this latest project that I have going at the moment.
I recently bought a ten inch brass bell and want to use it for the front door bell for the house. I have it mounted inside and It's close to a 240vac 50hz power input. There is also a two core tps cable running through the wall to the outside for a press button.
Here is what I am proposing to do. I want to wire in a solenoid close to the bell. Probably this one:
https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2010/12/series43.pdf
and set up a mechanical "donger" off it and have it actuated by the push button (N.O.) on the outside. I'll probably use this one:
**broken link removed**
All pretty straight forward so far, but what I was hoping to do was to have the bell "gong" twice just with the one press of the door bell. Maybe with a half second delay between gongs. Actually it would be good if this time duration could be adjustable. I was hoping to keep things fairly simple without the need to step down for 555 circuitry.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this possibly through the use of relays and caps?
Thanks again
I recently bought a ten inch brass bell and want to use it for the front door bell for the house. I have it mounted inside and It's close to a 240vac 50hz power input. There is also a two core tps cable running through the wall to the outside for a press button.
Here is what I am proposing to do. I want to wire in a solenoid close to the bell. Probably this one:
https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2010/12/series43.pdf
and set up a mechanical "donger" off it and have it actuated by the push button (N.O.) on the outside. I'll probably use this one:
**broken link removed**
All pretty straight forward so far, but what I was hoping to do was to have the bell "gong" twice just with the one press of the door bell. Maybe with a half second delay between gongs. Actually it would be good if this time duration could be adjustable. I was hoping to keep things fairly simple without the need to step down for 555 circuitry.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this possibly through the use of relays and caps?
Thanks again