Quiet_Cool
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yui said:But about that rash ....
Opps. Did I say that out loud?
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Opps. Did I say that out loud?
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Squirrels, in the attic, chewing on the wires to get a little buzz when they cross connect. Completely logical. It's the squirrels. It's always the squirrels. Believe me, I know. I'm looking at one right now. He sitting on my living room floor just staring at me, daring me to chase his little furry ass out.
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zeb1094 said:
You callin me a squirrel??
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Bad Capacitor-Bad, Bad
An an electrical engineering major a millennia ago, I'd bet your doorbell has a defective capacitor that's charging and discharging capriciously. The other strong possibilities are inductive coupling with some external current flow or, as many people have suggested, stray signals coming from neighbors' bells, garage door openers, remote door lock/starter circuits of cars etc.
Then again, I guess the ghost theory might be possible. I've never believed in them personally, but my ex insists that's because ghosts are afraid to come me.
An an electrical engineering major a millennia ago, I'd bet your doorbell has a defective capacitor that's charging and discharging capriciously. The other strong possibilities are inductive coupling with some external current flow or, as many people have suggested, stray signals coming from neighbors' bells, garage door openers, remote door lock/starter circuits of cars etc.
Then again, I guess the ghost theory might be possible. I've never believed in them personally, but my ex insists that's because ghosts are afraid to come me.
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zeb1094 said:No voles, just squirrels lots and lots of squirrels.
wtf...is a vole?
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yui said:
ahhhh soo cute...!!!
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zeb1094 said:Sure their cute in a picture, but when they start eating you wiring in your house you'll think different.
Where are voles found? Not sure we have them in Indiana.
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Hey now this is something I can answer.
How old is the system? If the bell is rung by pulling a rope outside the door check for something blowing in the breeze.
Honestly now. If the button is encased in a screwed on box outside the door then it is most likely an RF system. If this is the case it can be one of three things. Interference from another transmitter. (Common and you can change your frequency using a little switch inside the box.) A bad battery. Easy fix, change the batteries. A change in the humidity or something else crossing the contacts in the button. (Take it apart and check for a spiders web or corrosion crossing the contacts.)
If it is a wired in system it most likely is one of three things. A short in the wiring. (This happens and needs to be checked by an electrician.) Corrosion in the button switch, this can be cleaned using a little emery cloth. Or a short in the button switch. Again an easy fix. This can be caused either by something like a bug or a spider getting in there. Easily cleaned out. The button springs getting weak which allows the contacts to close, or a change in the humidity. (This causes a short in the switch. It sounds like the last because you said it now works. An easy way to fix this is to take the cover off the button and open the contacts a little.)
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How old is the system? If the bell is rung by pulling a rope outside the door check for something blowing in the breeze.
Honestly now. If the button is encased in a screwed on box outside the door then it is most likely an RF system. If this is the case it can be one of three things. Interference from another transmitter. (Common and you can change your frequency using a little switch inside the box.) A bad battery. Easy fix, change the batteries. A change in the humidity or something else crossing the contacts in the button. (Take it apart and check for a spiders web or corrosion crossing the contacts.)
If it is a wired in system it most likely is one of three things. A short in the wiring. (This happens and needs to be checked by an electrician.) Corrosion in the button switch, this can be cleaned using a little emery cloth. Or a short in the button switch. Again an easy fix. This can be caused either by something like a bug or a spider getting in there. Easily cleaned out. The button springs getting weak which allows the contacts to close, or a change in the humidity. (This causes a short in the switch. It sounds like the last because you said it now works. An easy way to fix this is to take the cover off the button and open the contacts a little.)
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The voles did, too. We leave the camp untenanted and closed up all winter, in a usual year. Generations of mice have been born in the stuffing of the old couch. Usually paramiscus, the deer mouse, but the little gray house mouse mus has taken its turn in the hotel as well.yui said:Dunna understand, but I do like you.
Year before last, it was red-backed voles. A nesting pair lived in the woodpile under the drain board by the sink. I held out a big metal pan and nudged it at them, and they climbed aboard. They rode docilely on it all the way outdoors. I put the pan down and they stepped off and walked toward the huckleberry bushes.
I call that polite.
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Geezz ... a whole thread of vole experts!!! how lucky can one get??? Thanks guys now I feel vole educated...if the little suckers come around here I may make one a pet.
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They were a lot less destructive than the mice. They were the shape of a fat fuzzy teardrop. Big eyes. The girl had outsized genitalia which rather spoiled the symmetry, but then a big proportion of the body of any rodent is dedicated to reproduction.
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scheherazade_79 said:My doorbell keeps ringing... but there's no one there. There isn't any wind or rain to set it off, and after searching the garden I can say with complete honesty that there's NO ONE playing tricks on me.
The weird thing is, I just pressed the doorbell myself, and it doesn't work. But yet, every 30 minutes or so, it rings - all on its own.
I'm too stoned from last night to start getting spooked by this, but I'd really be interested to know if someone can find a logical explanation for it.
Thanks,
Scheherazade
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cantdog said:
Holy Shit! That is certainly more information than I need!
