Plug-In Extend-A-Chime - RC3200 [Electronics] [Electronics] [Electronics]
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Plug-In Extend-A-Chime - RC3200 [Electronics] [Electronics] [Electronics]
Customer Review: Still works great after 3 years
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife wanted the original doorbell sounding unit of our house to be hidden when the house was rebuilt. So it was installed in a first floor closet. This made it very difficult to hear. This product was a fantastic solution. Not too difficult to hookup, and so convenient to add receivers wherever we wanted, upstairs, downstairs, etc.. The funny part was when our neighbors across the street bought the same unit we kept answering the door just to see people entering their house. Easy fix: we snipped one of the corresponding wires on all our units and we were on a different frequency than our neighbors. (I believe there are five wires that can be snipped, thus giving 2 raised to the 5th power combinations, or 32 different frequencies.) Still sounds great after about three years - great tone, ample choices, and distinguishes between our front door sound and back door sound.Customer Review: Works not quite perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
Setup is a breeze and I had it installed and working in probably 3 minutes, but I had the screwdriver out already.
The transmitter box (the one that wires into the existing doorbell) is a little larger that it probably needs to be, and this is because, for some reason, it has the jumpers for selecting the tune that will come out the receiver box (the one with the speaker). I'm not sure why these jumpers aren't on the receiver box, that would make it possible to make the transmitter box look a lot nicer, which is important, because it won't fit in my existing doorbell housing, and is dangling off to the side.
Seems like a few better design decisions would make this product perfect.
- Put the tune selection capability on the receiver unit
- Make the transmitter unit pretty enough to look ok mounted next to the existing doorbell
Customer Review: Easy-to-Install AND Has great range for remote chime
Summary: 5 Stars
Like the other reviews here. It took less than 5 minutes to install the RC3200 transmitter to the existing door chime. Use a little common sense to match the wire labels to your system if the names aren't identical. EASY! Hardest part was determining where to place the trasmitter unit (about 1" by 2 1/2" by 1/2" thick) to assure the cover can be replaced.
The receiver works like a charm with good range from the transmitter.
This system might cost a bit more than some of the competition products, but the range and simple installation is priceless.
Also note that I bought two additional RC3733 receivers (we have lots of basement rooms with doors). They worked the first time out of the box without any modifications.
***** = 5 Stars
Customer Review: Excellent product....works as advertised
Summary: 5 Stars
After researching literally dozens of these doorbell extenders, I finally settled on this one. The key selling point for this particular unit was that the transmitter was hard-wired to the existing doorbell; this completely eliminates the over/under sensitivity of the mic on similar (completely wireless) products.
The only issue that I had was getting the wires run in such a manner that they did not interfere with the chime plates in the doorbell. But, even this only added a minute or two to the install.
I put the receiver in my home office which is in the basement, and it works like a charm. Now I am contemplating adding a second receiver, and placing that one out in the garage.
Customer Review: Works great - Just what I needed
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't hear the doorbell when I was in the basement. This thing solved that problem easily and quickly. The transmitter is farily small, about the size of a TicTack container, maybe a bit larger. The doorbell chime unit was mounted on a wall over a closet door. All I had to do was drill a small hole from inside the closet. The Extened-A-Chime is mounted inside the closet and the two wires go through that small hole and are attached to the doorbell chime.
The remote chime unit goes into any wall outlet. Even though the transmitter and receiver are seperated by about 100' and I'm usually sitting aways from the remote chime it never fails to work and I always hear the doorbell.