XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: tony.miklos@gmail.com   
      
   Dennis M wrote:   
   > I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with wireless doorbells. The   
   > last couple of days mine has been ringing a couple of times on its own (no,   
   > it isn't a pre-Halloween prank). I have some neighbors about 80 feet away   
   > who have an electronic garage door opener, but there's a wooded area   
   > between us and I don't think this could be causing it because it hasn't   
   > happened until now. The main unit inside uses 4 "C" batteries, then the   
   > actual doorbells (one on the front that has a two-tone ring; one on the   
   > back that has a single ring) use some kind of weird tiny batteries. It's   
   > the single ring doorbell that's been acting up, so maybe that's where the   
   > actual problem is.   
   >   
   > I'm wondering if wireless doorbells are like smoke detectors, in that   
   > they'll start ringing out of the blue when their batteries start to go low.   
   > The batteries have been in the main unit for about two years now, also   
   > about the same for the actual doorbells.   
      
      
   Change the code.  Someone close by got a new one and like you left it at   
   the factory settings.   
      
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