Ring doorbell pro and telephone twisted pair

[Daz134]

Hello

I'm in the process of installing a new ring doorbell pro.

Currently we have an existing doorbell chime which is hardwired with a internal transformer and consumes 4v which is not enough to run the ring doorbell.

I'm going to either use a plug in transformer and use the transformer that comes with the device.

But my question is the existing chime uses what seems to be 6 core telephone cable to the bell push.

If I'm going to be putting more juice to the bell push will these cables be able to handle it.

The new transformer will be 16 to 24vac with 30vamp

I understand that we can twist 3 cables together each end but if putting that amount of power to the bell push will the cable handle this

Thanks for any help in advance

 

[littlespark]

Who wired a bell push in telephone cable rather than bell wire?

I’d think using just 2 cores of the telephone cable would suffice when you see the size of regular bell wire.

Twist the cables of the same twisted pair together. Ie the blue/white and the white/blue.

 

[Phil Thompson]

Id say if you doubled up on a set of pairs for each core for the power supply you’d be more than fine as the cable for the ring power pack isn’t very thick anyway.