Have a farmer for a customer with a large water tank for watering his fields. He would like some telemetry as to its state: full, half full, etc.. (Currently he uses the "There She Blows!" method to see when the tank is full.)
Anyone have any suggestions? Be nice if it worked over Modbus/TCP.
How far away? Why would he need the complication of TCP. I am thinking 2 wires, a variable resistor at the tank and a gauge that responds to it, similar to the gas gauge in a car. That would not require any power at the tank at all.
I would ask in Alt.Internet.Wireless as it's actually pretty easy to put a webcam there, fed by solar, which then transmits the water running into the inside of your water tank, real time.
In fact, we have that set up for ourselves in some of our neighbor's tanks. You can transmit for 20 miles if you have line of sight.
How about two weights hanging from a pully. The floating weight weighs more than the weight that hangs loose in the air. That weight that hangs in the air is spray painted fluorescent red.
The fuller the tank, the lower the red weight will be to the ground.
Telemetery is provided by an inexpensive pair of binoculars.
Depends on how much he wants to spend. If the tank is open at the top he can use a pressure transducer very easy. Here is one that operates over the Modbus.
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Rosemont also makes single point switches. For that he will have to put a hole in the tank at the levels he wants the switch to activate.
Drexelbrook makes some level measuring transmitters that operate on a 4 to
20 ma loop type circuit and other devices.
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All depends on how much he wants to spend. He could put one of the point level switches near the top and have it turn off the pump and anoter near the bottom to turn the pump on.
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