Derek Geldard wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:18:56 +0000, Charlie Mitchell
wrote:

Ziggy wrote:
What is the approximate battery life of the receiver of a wire free door
chime?

For the sake of argument, let's say the unit is used very little and the
receiver does not have a light.

{Here are some sample products from Argos http://tinyurl.com/2sb3r9}
Our wireless doorbells seemed to do nothing but die, they were
totally hopeless, in the end I put a wired one in myself which
is still going strong, the wireless ones just seemed to stop
working for some reason after about 12 months and no end of
fiddling with them would get them working again, it also
seemed regardless of the amount of money we spent on them as
well.

They are not fighting with your wireless network are they ?

Both my wireless meat thermometer and my little Chinese weather
station quit when my wifi network is running.

DG


That is a really good suggestion actually and something I
never thought of! I can't remember how long we've had the
wireless, I think we had the wireless doorbells longer though.

Whilst they all seemed to work a certain amount of time they
all gave up the ghost after the same amount of time.

The wired one I put in is just an old fashioned ding dong one,
it's not one that's wired into the mains, that really does
sound dangerous, epseically where my wiring skills are
concerned!!