Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button
Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 4 Stars
Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button
I bought this based upon the excellent reviews here on Amazon. It was a smart buy and the review were right on. This item packs a lot of punch for the price. The fit, finish, and sound quality are excellent. It is easy to program it and seemed pretty instinctive.
I received this with the standard white doorbell push and used that for the shop. We also bought the brass finish doorbell pushbutton Honeywell RPWL302A1005/A Decor Wireless Surface Mount Push Button to match the trim on the house door glass.
Having been so satisfied with the set-up, we then bought the Converter/Extender/Pushbutton Honeywell RPWL3045A1003/A Wireless Premium Portable Converter/Extender/Push Button. This add-on device worked perfectly to tie in an existing driveway alarm. We hardwired this device to the 'normally open' contacts on our driveway alarm unit. Now when the driveway alarm gets a signal, it closes its output N/O contacts, which triggers the Honeywell extender device. The Honeywell extender then transmits the signal to the main Door Chime unit. So now we have three distinct tones set up on the main Door Chime: one tone for the house pushbutton, one for the shop pushbutton, and one for the driveway alarm system.
The stated range of 450' is probably line-of-sight only, though this hasn't been verified. When introducing walls into the distance, it goes down dramatically. We had it temporarily set up during house construction: It had trouble getting through about 50' of building, a couple walls, then across another 70' open-air, and then 3' around a building corner to a push button. Holding the pushbutton just 4' closer so that it had more line of sight to the building with the transmitter made the difference.
Testing it with everything in it's final location worked fine (through one wall and across 70' open air).
One small detail on the pushbuttons: The mounting screws provided have fat screw heads that do not fit properly in the case. I dug around and found screws with narrower heads.
Customer Review: Great unit, highly recommended
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought to replace an older wireless unit that did not have a "silence" function like this Honeywell (doorbell was near to sleeping infant's room)
First impressions were very good out of the...clam shell packaging (which I HATES btw...VERY dangerous stuff). Construction quality is probably a little above average, aesthetics are certainly way above average (imo), with a nice, clean, modern design.
Thoughtfully, they added mp3's of the chimes on the Amazon page so you can listen to see if any appeal to you. I can't imagine being stuck with a doorbell sound that drives you crazy.
Also of note is the sound quality of each chime. Very high bit rate mp3's probably. Very little to no distortion (depending on the chime and the volume), so I have to say I was impressed here. I knocked one star off because of only 6 options though. With MP3 compression and technology these days, no reason not to have 10 or more, or better still, the ability to add your own. Just a small nitpick though.
fyi for those considering expanding the system: I bought the expander and three door/window contacts thinking I could use one expander for all three...but nooo. Unless I am very mistaken, you have to buy an extender for EACH set of door/window chimes you want to install! That can be quite spendy if you are trying to cover all your doors and windows! Also, the instructions for the extender are HORRENDOUS but won't mark that off on this score of course.
PROS: Ability to SILENCE and have unit flash instead of ring. Volume control. 6 chimes, most are good, and very good to excellent sound quality. Design/construction is excellent. Exandibility to include a motion sensor and door/window chimes. Brilliant! Assignable chimes per location! Great! Value for what you get in this unit is really amazing imo. (I paid $39 I think)
CONS: Wished for even more chime options or ability to add my own. Expandibility is not that simple and may require electrical work.
Overall, highly recommended and if I could, would give this 4.5 stars instead of just 4
Customer Review: A New Use For a Doorbell
Summary: 5 Stars
Due to a disability sometimes requiring immediate assistance, a solution allowing my husband time in his man-cave and me in my office doing our respective activities is critical. Our cell phones couldn't alert him quickly enough. Intercom/walkie-talkie devices oouldn't penetrate walls and had extremely limited range.
A friend suggested a wireless doorbell for portability. We tried a cheap plastic unit, which stopped working the same day. As usual, I turned to Amazon and it's outstanding customer reviews for the solution.
The Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button is the excellent solution for our situation. The following is an overview of how this product is applied as an aid to independence, instead of a doorbell.
All the reasons Amazon reviewers listed as positive for a doorbell apply here.
1] RANGE--Our brick home has a basement, an attached brick garage and sits on a 64 x 125-foot lot. My office is at the front of the house. The doorbell functions PERFECTLY from my office to any point the basement, the garage and the entire yard.
2] VOLUME--Wonderfully loud. We chose the standard door chime, but they're all loud enough to be heard everywhere.
Points on volume--We live in a major city off an alley. If the doorbell is an alarm for you, and high-traffic noise is an issue, carry the chime with you.
The unit also flashes blue when activated, a GREAT feature for the hearing-impaired, or if you keep the volume up on your media, or use headphones.
3] PUSH BUTTON--Rubberized touchpad won't break or stick like plastic units with buttons.
Although the amount of pressure needed to activate the chime is minimal, it was impossible for me due to weak muscles. We adapted the unit and will try uploading pics.
This is a quality product, no matter the use. No more fear of failure in a clinch. Hit the button--hubby comes runnin'!! How 'bout that, women??
Customer Review: Wireless Door Bell
Summary: 5 Stars
I mounted the door bell push button about 300 feet away near the electric entrance down by the road. The chime unit is in the living room. I took particular care to mount the push button away from other metal/electrical components such as outdoor lighting, an electric fence charger control box, and an automatic gate opener. I tried mounting the push button close to these sources as well as in the vicinity of a heavy duty 3" thick vertical lamp-post pipe, and found it worked best and most reliably if I kept it (and its transmission signal) as far away from those sources as was practically possible. So far, my efforts at trial and error have paid off. The door bell works consistently and reliably as advertised at 325'. For extra-protection I mounted the push button itself is mounted inside a cross-section of 3" thin-wall plastic pipe to protect it from direct exposure to rain and the rays of the sun before attaching it to an outside fence rail. I powered the chime unit by an old 6-volt dc transformer I had lying around, thus eliminating the need for D batteries. The battery for the push button is a simple computer type battery, more widely available these days than the "23A" commonly used in similar but cheaper and less effective units.
This is about the 4th or 5th wireless door bell system I've purchased and so far the most expensive. Brings the mind the old adage about you get what you pay for. The others either never had the range they advertised or worked inconsistently or only for a short while. My experience tells me one reliable way you can evaluate electric door bells is by the battery that powers the push button. If its a common 23A (a small cylindrical 12 volt battery about half the size of the everyday triple-A (AAA) battery, it should be good for a distance of 100' and no more. It you need your push button to be further distant from the chime, go with something like this Honeywell or something with an advertised distance of 500' or 1000'.
Customer Review: works perfectly for us
Summary: 5 Stars
We had a wireless Westinghouse intercom system that started to fail after six years, and insofar as we were using it only as a doorbell anyway, the Honeywell door chime and push button seemed like a cheaper, smarter way to go. So far, it has been a good decision. The push button and chimes are smaller and better looking than the Westinghouse devices, and the bell rings clearly and immediately when the button is pushed, no delay or static or popping.
We have two doors, and wanted two bells that would both ring when either button was pushed, with recognizably different bells for each so we would know which door to open. Other users have complained that such setups are possible, but difficult to configure. Forewarned, I was able to configure our system in about five minutes. The trick is that you can not merely program the bell for each buzzer; the bells come pre-configured to ring with their first option for the pushbutton in the box they came with. You need to DEPROGRAM this option before you can set the new one. Though the instructions for deprogramming are in the user manual, there is no complete walkthrough a case like the one I described, and I can easily imagine the device failing to register a new pushbutton because the default programming was still in place, and the user being left frustrated as a result.
I also like how easy it is to switch it from sound to flashing light for a ring, which is nice when the baby is sleeping.
Finally, though the device runs on batteries and is advertised as portable, it *is* possible to drive it with wall current if you have a transformer that fits. The port is there, Honeywell just didn't include the charger in the box.