Best bell wire for Ring doorbell pro

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im running in new cable for our Ring Doorbell Pro and running it through conduit to the consumer unit. Is there a better cable to use, or any bell wire will do? Wasn’t sure if a thicker cable would work better? or does it not work like that
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Therefore the main issue would be if your existing doorbell transformer was only just putting out 16-17V, then at 1.25A you may experience sufficient voltage drop to prevent it from working (but that largely depends on the length of the cable run).
If you know the voltage from your transformer and what size bell wire you are using then you you (we) can calculate how long a cable run should be OK for that particular wire.
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We in the UK have traditionally used much less powerful transformers in out doorbells than in the USA, the Nest Hello for Europe has been adjusted to only need 8VA (rather than the 10VA in the USA) to help compensate. Thankfully ours was enough to power the doorbell itself but not sufficient to work with the mechanical chime so had to replace that with an electronic one as didnt want the sounding of the chime inside to be dependent on the internet connection, google/amazon servers etc.