my grandfather wants a new door bell...problem is i cant find the transformer...it a simple 1 door bell....its an old house with fuses still...he claims he is too old to worry about upgrading to circuit breakers...:wall: ...anyway would it be possible to just get a simple chime door bell and use esisiting wires and transformer...from what i understand there is different transformers and odds are just to hook up a new bell it would not be compatible with the old transformer ....thanks for any help..grandfather having trouvle hearing old bell,looking for more of a longer ring.....

My house currently has an OLD main breaker box from the 1960's. It is a "main lug" box and the sticker says it is a 200 amp panel. It has no main breaker. It's door is falling off. It has big 240v circuits on the top, then a 60a breaker "main for lights" leading to 20 amp 120v circuits below. It has no empty slots for additional circuits. The condition looks old. I need to add a few new circuits, and rather than add a subpanel, I want to replace it with a new 200amp 20/40 box which will have more than enough room for my requirements. Here's my question. Why would they have used a main box without a main breaker? The 240v breakers include a 100amp for an electric furnace (which is not used anymore...), a 60 amp for an stove/oven, a 30 amp for water heater, a 50 amp for clothers dryer, and a 30 amp for A/C unit. Then, like I said, there's a 60 amp "main for lights" from which all other circuits are run. Is it possible that all these large amp applicances would constantly trip a 200 amp main so that's why they didn't use one initially? I WANT to use a new box with a main breaker... seems safer to me. Since we don't use the electric furnace anymore, I may not even include that circuit at all when I put the new main box. So what do you think? Should a 200amp "main breaker" box be OK, or do I use a "main lug" style like originally used? thanks! :)