ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon May 16, 2016 9:33 pm #47531 Hello all,

I am very new to ESP8266 and all other ARDUINO. Please bear with me on this.

I am working on a project (home) to automate the transfer of water collected on Water tank (250 Gal.) to another Water tank on the top of my house's roof.

The first tank is located on ground level as it collects the rain water from the roof via the gutters. I need to set some monitoring on the tank to know when to start a water pump to move the water from ground tank to the top tank if the water level on the top tank allows it. There should be low level and high level signals so the water pump doesn't burn by pumping on an empty tank and/or overflows the top tank.

I'd like to add a flow sensor to the ground tank entrance (where I keep some filters) so I can be alerted of low flow to check the filters.

This is all very manual now and requires a lot of time. I live in Costa Rica, where it rains daily 7 months a year so there is a lot of pluvial water being collected and reused.

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

Regards,

Jens

- Tue May 17, 2016 2:06 pm #47572 You could use one of these at the top and bottom of each tank.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/391351391043?_t ... EBIDX%3AIT

I have a couple being delivered soon for a project I'm working on. I also have a flow meter, bu it's only a 1/2" so I doubt it would be adequate for what you're trying to do. I don't know if they make a 3/4" or 1" version.

- Tue May 17, 2016 5:20 pm #47579 i did something similar in scope in an work project. i used a float inside a tube made of pvc pipe. the float had a piece of all thread in it with some fender washers and nuts to make an adjustable target. for sensors i bought two cheap inductive proximity sensors. shoot me an email address and i'll throw a pic or two your way of how i did it.

cheers
pete

- Wed May 18, 2016 9:46 am #47602

i did something similar in scope in an work project. i used a float inside a tube made of pvc pipe. the float had a piece of all thread in it with some fender washers and nuts to make an adjustable target. for sensors i bought two cheap inductive proximity sensors. shoot me an email address and i'll throw a pic or two your way of how i did it.

cheers
pete

Thank you Pete, please send the pictures to jens.mcnaomh@gmail.com