Rainwater Storage Gauge


Posted on Feb 6, 2014

Not only on ecologically grounds but also economically it makes sense to collect rainwater for use in the garden and increasingly for `grey water` domestic use. People who take rainwater collection seriously use large underground tanks for storage. The problem now arises, how can the water level be determined without lifting the tank hatch and pee


Rainwater Storage Gauge
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ring in One solution is to use float switches mounted at different heights in the water tank, and to use a row of LEDs mounted remotely to show the water level in the tank. Transferring this information to a remote display will involve long cable runs so it is of interest to reduce the number of cables to a minimum. The circuit here shows how information about the water level in a tank can be sent over two wires to a remote LED display. R1 together with the resistor chain made up of R2-R6 form a voltage divider,‚oat switches are wired across the resistors R2-R6 in one arm of the voltage divider. As water flows into the tank and the level rises, switch S5 closes followed by S4, etc. Each time a switch closes, it will short out its parallel resistor in the chain thereby changing the output voltage of the divider. When the tank is full, allve switches will be closed and all the LEDs will be on. The voltage output from this divider chain is applied to the inputs of five op amps that are configured as comparators. A voltage chain comprising R7-R12 supplies the reference voltage for each of the five comparators. Both divider chains use the same supply so they will be insensitive to supply‚uctuations. The maximum supply current for the circuit is less than 25mA. Some of the resistors chosen to make up the voltage dividers are not standard values but can be easily made up from combinations of 10k and 100k resistors. If you need to...




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