Re: Re: was Heating Controlers, now garden water control

["Robert Crawshaw" <robert@xxxxxxx>]

I believe the ones mentioned below are 24v ones, the ones i found in side
the washing mc are 240v ones.

If you get desparate i could rewind you 24v solenoid to 12v.
This works 95% of the time when you modify an electric motor to work on a
different voltage, but solenoids/coils can sometimes be a little fussy.


RS is radio spares BTW




> Robert
>
> Do you have more details of the solenoid valves.
>
> I have a 24v one, but it stopped working, not sure if it is the valve
> of the power supply which has blown, but if I could get a supply of
> 12v ones, that would be better.
>
> By RS do you mean Radio Shack, i.e. Tandy.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rid
>
> >
> > > RE the Valves,
> > > you could consider using the Soleniod Valves from RS - that
have
> been
> > > used for Garden Irrigation systems, they are much cheaper
(around
> > > 10ukp each) than the "real" vales, and are
available in 12 vdc or
> > > 240v ac versions, so could be used with Homevision - anyone
any
> > > thoughts on this.
> >
> > Or...  a cheaper alternative.
> > Our washing mc blew up a couple of weeks ago, so i decided t 
pull
> it t
> > bits t  see if there was anything i could 'recycle' from it..
> > Guess what.... the water inlets are solenoid valves... i
retrieved
> a t tal
> > of 3 from inside...
> > All i need now is a garden !
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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