Heath/Zenith SL-6166-C Wireless Plug-In Door Chime Kit with Molded Plastic Cover, White
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Heath/Zenith SL-6166-C Wireless Plug-In Door Chime Kit with Molded Plastic Cover, White
Customer Review: Music
Summary: 5 Stars
Works nicely, and every time. It's easy to use, loud enough and no problems.Customer Review: Easy to install
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the easiest and nicest door chime I have ever seen. It was A LOT cheaper than having an electritian come to install a permanent one. Has nice tones tooCustomer Review: Get something else
Summary: 2 Stars
This is inexpensive and had the chime sound my wife and I wanted. I'll leave it to other reviews to discuss long-term problems, I just now installed mine and it has worked three times out of three.
The install process is from the "we don't care" school. There are indentations where the screws go, but you have to push the screws through the plastic - there's no hole or poke-away tab.
If you want to change the tone - I didn't, but I read the manual - you open the doorbell unit and change jumpers! This is fine if you have spent time setting up hard drives, but strikes me as an odd process for a doorbell with a total of three (3) sounds to choose from. Similar doorbells use a button on the underside of the ringer to change tones from one sound to the next.
The doorbell functions so far, the bell is fifteen feet from the ringer, but the workmanship is consistent with the bad reviews and does not fill me with confidence.
I recommend that you buy something else.
Customer Review: junk
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm on my third one (heath/zenith is all home depot carries).
On the last two, the outside transmitter didn't last longer than the battery. The first one's electronics died. The second one fell apart in my hands while I was changing out the battery -- the plastic had degraded.
Customer Review: Unreliable puts it mildly
Summary: 1 Stars
It seemed fine at first, right up until the return time elapsed. Sneaky thing. Well, almost fine. The battery sits a bit loose in the pushbutton unit, so when attaching it, the battery slid a bit and I needed to remove, adjust, and reattach. It worked. As I said, worked fine for a little over a month. Then it started working about half the time. Then it rained heavily and it started working all the time... as in ringing without being actually touched. Maybe something in the unit swelled? I had to unplug the receiver until things dried out.
I've just changed out the battery in hopes of it working. I went through the "adjust battery, snap in place, remove to adjust shift caused by snapping in place" dance again, but then it worked. But after a few pushes over a few days, the battery has apparently slid out of place again. Off to buy one with a better rating.