Snow & Ice WAS Re: Toilet Flushes

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

It all started when I wanted Misterhouse to warn me of frost, or the
possibility of frost in a morning before Vicky sets off to work. I also
wanted to detect snow or when the temperature was in danger of freezing the
pipes.

This reminded me of a website I saw a while ago that counted all sorts of
stuff, including toilet flushes. Since this was a fairly comical thing I
used
that as an example hpoing others would remember it as I have :-)

I have been looking at ePanorama for circuits, and I found a few water
ones,
hopefully there will be some snow & ice ones too.

What I had thought of was a dual device that detected water (ie the snow)
and
weight (the weight of the snow, being submerged in water wouldn't be enough
weight to trip the switch)

On Monday 12 November 2001 23:31 pm, Mark Hetherington wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> > I was looking for something more generic, something that could be
> > applied to
> > any place water is likely to gather/leak from, but I'll remember
> > these for
> > future reference.
>
> As it turned out, I have a lot of water related things... um water
sensing
> etc... in my links collection so in the detection of water
leaks/gathering,
> what do you want to happen and/or interact with. E.g. Do you want to
turn
> off the mains water supply in response and do you want to use X10 or
some
> other transmission protocol? I probably have an appropriate link but
just
> wanted to confirm before sending you something unsuitable.
>
> You have actually got me thinking about this again now so I plan on
sensing
> water leaks and cutting off at the mains. I found a US water cut off
device
> that I am getting more info on which is more suited to the limited
space I
> have on the rising main than the devices I have seen over here. Need
to
> check on the tech specs first though.
>
> BTW, anyone know the "average" mains pressure here?
>
> Mark.
>
>
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