Difference between mechanical and digital doorbell chimes

Owain_Moneysaver

The Ring manuals have lots of pretty pictures, but no actual wiring diagrams.

AFAICS the 'bridge' / bypass cable is just a terminal block and fuseholder and replaces the chime so the full voltage from the transformer gets to the Ring.

It may work if you ignore the bypass instructions and wire up the Ring as intended for the US market, with the chime solenoid in series with the Ring at the front door. You may also need to go into the Ring settings menu and change the type of bell setting.

Three possibilities:
- it will work
- the Ring will not get sufficient voltage and it will not work
- the Ring will draw too much current and the chime solenoid will be permanently activated

It might not work if you want to put a back door push in parallel to operate the same chime. The back door push will short across the wires to the front door to activate the chime and when it does so the Ring will receive zero volts power and may drop out, fall off the wireless network etc, and reset itself.

Annie1960

I got a separate chime for the back door.