The doorbell plate is fastened by surface mounting and is about 1 cm thick. The supernatant does not bother me. On the contrary, I find it even more beautiful after initial skepticism now as if it would flush.
The housing is made of a solid stainless steel and with the brushed look a real eye-catcher. Just awesome. Both switch and the field for the street names are made of plastic so that the backlight can shine through. The processing of the handle is very good. The feel of the buttons is great. As per button, a sensor on the left and a right is soldered on the board (ie two per handle), it does not matter where the visitor presses. Toll. One sees that the developers have been thinking something.
As I mentioned before, the bell push is mounted with a surface mounting. 4 screws (in each corner a) hold the plate on the wall.
In the lower left corner (important!) Is then an additional hole through which you can then insert the cable into the housing interior. Where else it does not work! However, this hole is not particularly large. With 6 normal bell wires you're there fast times at the limit. That should already be taken into account when laying the cable, if that's possible. Because if you have to route the cables behind the first housing to the lower left corner, then where is possible the bell push even further away from the wall and you would possibly see the cable if you look at the plate side. So rather just lay the cable so that it at the bottom left of the bell plate comes out of the wall.
I have (about halfway) set me a flush-mounted box, which would not have been necessary. But I did not even during the construction phase. In order for the board but as close as possible against the wall, I have to scrape the plaster something so that the plate tightly against the wall again between flush box and the left lower corner.
In a two-family house requires 6 cable. I know this can you can do that with only 4 cables, but that is in my eyes not clean cabling. So per button 2 cable and the backlight 2, for a total of 6. Connected I have everything to a Grohte bell transformer with 8 volts AC. Works fine. Once it becomes a little darker, the bell plate automatically turns on the backlight. So far, everything's great.
Now we come to the biggest shortcoming of the bell plate. The lighting of a football stadium is a dirt against the backlight ;-). A madness how bright it is. An extra light with a motion detector can save you need actually. While there is a small pot on the board of the bell plate, which allows you to adjust the brightness, this one can regulate but only from 100% to 70% down. It is completely incomprehensible to me why you can not continue chokes. I would also 10% rich. But since this does not work, I have even two or three sheets of white paper stuck (and some others on the Internet) on the large LED panel inside in addition to the down turned 70%. This then is dim a little further. Bottom line, it is then still more than bright enough. Perhaps you could also try out 5 or 6 leaves. Would also be sufficient safe. Too bad, because if it were not, then it would be a perfect product. So, it is 'only' good.
Who can completely do without the backlight / wants, but does not need to connect them. This is a plus point. The lighting (and thus the 5th and 6th cable) is optional.
Conclusion. A good product that I would definitely buy again. Only the makers of future models should perhaps slightly reduce the brightness.
