Re: Autoloo

["Jon Payne" <jgpayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You mean it HAS got a CAT5 i/f? Nice... ;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Meier" <stuartmeier@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Autoloo


> Tim asked me to post this, currently flushing out the lurkers on
UK_Selfbuild...
> "Well worth posting over on UKHA though, a neat, automated bog
flush"
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> > I had been struggling with how to operate the loo flush on a
hidden
cistern.
> All
> > the ones I have seen (below £150 anyway) are as ugly as sin, or
difficult to
> > operate. Nasty handles, giant pushbuttons etc.
> >
> > Just in case anyone else is pondering this perplexing and
important
issue (!),
> I
> > have just got my low cost solution.
> >
> > I'll be using pneumatic hidden cisterns (from BES, currently on
offer at
£27),
> > operated by a small airpump £10 from a  fishtank supplier),
triggered by
a wee
> > bit of electronics ( so a brief touch on any desired button (mine
is a
small
> > diamond tile) will run the pump for the requisite 5 odd seconds).
And it
> > automatically runs a fan for a few minutes too if you want. In
the event
of
> > mains failure there is still a manual override.
> >
> > Just got a prototype working a treat. But it's not got a cat5
interface
so no
> > point in telling you good folk on UKHA!
> >
> > StUart
>
> The bit about cat5 was just a joke, by the way :-)
> StUart
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