On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 8:27:13 PM UTC-8, Kate wrote:
I have replaced my doorbell button five times in a year. It is a wired
one, but the light keeps going out. It has a diode in it. The
Westminster chimes sound great.

The third time the light went out, I hired an electrician, and it still
would not light two months later.

The electrician told me to get a doorbell without the little wire inside
the doorbell, called a diode.

Can someone please educate me. From what I am finding out, all wired
doorbells must have a diode or else the doorbell won't chime.

If I really don't need a diode, for a wired doorbell, can someone tell
me that brand and model number of the unit? I am not interested in a
battery operated unit, but surely, there must be a doorbell button out
there that just keeps on working.

This cannot be rocket science.
The electrician I had moved, so I need to start all over again.

Many thanks!

Kadee

OK, I just thought of something. When the electrician installed my new wired doorbell unit, I recall he said something about putting the transformer in my fuse box. I just went out to look, and I don't know what a transformer looks like, but could there be a chance that he took the cover off of my fuse box, and installed it behind the cover? I am thinking that the transformer is small enough to be placed there.

Thanks.