Wow, you guys are quick! And ingenious too, I never would have thought about using a capacitor to operate a chime. I'm not sure how i would size the cap. though. I got to considering relays but time delays won't close on energization and then close a few tenths of a second later. While looking up relays online I came across some info for "one-shot" relays. "One-shot timers provide a single contact pulse of specified duration for each coil energization (transition from coil off to coil on)" Sounds like one of these would work, just need to find out what voltages these come in...and prices too. Hopefully this will work, but for some reason I would like to use a capacitor. It sound so much cooler and would probably impress my boss.
Thanks for the speedy replies and I hope to get a few more ideas.
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Shawn.
