Improvising handset beep?

If you have mains supply to the workshop why not a simple plug into the mains intercom at either end. I've probably a set of 2 or 3 somewhere.

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Yep, thanks, reasonable solution, and I may end up with that. Has the advantage of speech! (Hmm - for shed communications, maybe that's a disadvantage?) But ideally I'd like to avoid finding room to stand or mount the units, and minimise expense. At present my gadget occupies zero extra space in house, and in shed one small case mounted up in ceiling corner, with my simple receiving circuit. (Power supply from one of the several already in place.) Quick look beforehand at Maplin found a pair at about £32UKP, inc VAT and delivery. What price are yours?

That's an interesting stock you have! You're not by any chance the same guy I used to buy bits and pieces from somewhere in South London about 25 years ago are you? I recall there was room in there for just him and one customer at a time. Rest of space occupied by Stuff .

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

I'll try and find them first , the problem is there may be 3 units rather than 2 but 12 squid plus p&p if 3 units, 9 squid if 2

Just use the same wires, and add a speaker in the house, and a button in the shed, such that when either button is pressed, both speakers sound. :-)

If you only have two wires, this could be an interesting project indeed! ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

One of the companies that advertises kits was selling a kit in which each station contains a small amplifier and uses a variant of power line signalling in which pressing the send button on one station applies power through the signal line to the receive station, the company has a PDF schematic for download so its worth googling electronic kits and see if it turns up!

Wireless doorbells?

FRS handheld radios? Or is that frequency band allowed for public use in the UK?

How about a pair of these?

Jerry

Thanks for those. Will follow up and report back.

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Thanks. Let me know if you put your hands on them, and you'll have my order pronto.

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Hi Terry...

Being called in for dinner? You mean sending in your request for another cold one, don't you? :) :)

If there happens to be a few extra dollars (pounds) available, why not buy yourself one of those two or even three handset cordless phone sets?

Telephone answering and placing outgoing in your shed; they allow inter-handset conversations, call transferring, etc. Fantastic. Great at the lake - the main base in the cottage, another handset in the garage/workshop, and the third in the boathouse/dock area.

Don't know what might be available to you over across the pond (I'm in one of the colonies :) but Panasonic makes a great one if you can find it.

Take care.

Ken

Thanks Ken. That's why my first choice would have been to simply buy an extra handset. But there's nothing wrong with the single-handset Samsung, so not keen to dump it.

Anyway, early tests indicate that the dock to heli-pad range might be an issue .

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Why not just use a simple and cheap wireless doorbell?

Dave :)

Thanks Dave. I do already use adapted versions of those in a few R/C gadgets, but range is an issue. Although house to shed/workshop is well within the claimed range, the various walls (including the intervening garage) plus possibly the many sources of interference in my workshop make reception unreliable.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

2 Realistic Plug n' Talk checked working both ways beep and speech. One has cosmetic damage, 500 gram each

Great. I've emailed you, if that ID is pukka.

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

rather

Halfway down

has my email address in picture form

Any cordless phone with intercom feature would work...doesn't even have to be hooked up to the phone line (although infinitely more useful if so). They click 'intercom' in the house, handset beeps, you push a button and say 'Right-o'.

I pick these up at second-hand stores and yard (to you teabaggers, I believe that would be 'boot') sales for a couple of dollars. Usually a good cleaning and new battery pack puts them in order...sometimes have to cobble up a new power supply from my extensive stock of wall warts.

jak

OK, re-sent email.

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Err, hosepipe and two funnels.

Job done :-)

DNA

Wont work! - you need a food pulveriser and a pump to force it through the hosepipe!