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

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Re RS is Radio Spares, did this used to be Radio Shack or is/was that a
different company? never known that!

Not really useful but I'm inquisitive.

B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Crawshaw [mailto:robert@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 July 2001 22:35
> To: UK HA mailing list
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: was Heating Controlers, now garden water
> control
>
>
> 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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