So I just tore a wall in my house in half and it just so happens that the doorbell chime was on the part that got trashed. I was looking at the options for doorbell chimes and am unimpressed so I got the great idea to build my own. I started by looking for chimes that I could hang when I ran across gongs. That's right folks. I'm thinking about having my doorbell sound a gong. I found some nice ones on Amazon and I figure I can just hang it on the wall. The only problem now is how to hammer it? I know not so much about electronics but I imagine that there is a motor of some kind that can get enough force to swing a gong hammer. I would hang the gong about 4" away from the wall so the hammer wouldn't have too far to travel. It could be powered by 120v and I could use a relay from the 16v that my doorbell system uses. Or.... I don't know what else.
I'm thinking about
this gong.
There are a bunch of creative folks here so I thought I'd toss this out and see what bites.
Any ideas?