Re: Re: Moisture sensor

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys

Have got a couple of those Maxbotix sensors sitting here on my desk which
im
also going to use with my Future water tank......Now if Idratek still has
xPL functionality you maybe can use your Maxbotix sensors connected to this
device .....using the serial port
http://www.rgbled.org/maxbotix/index.html

Unused sensor inputs can be used as general i/o

HTH
Frank


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hunter" <cjhunter@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Moisture sensor


> Paul -
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> Interesting !   A while back I did mention it to Karam, even tried to
> interest him in adapting the RS232 interface to talk with such things
> (plus my hi-fi), without success ...
>
> Chris
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> On 14 Apr 2007, at 12:25, lexfordparc wrote:
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>> Chris,
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>> Been there, seen it, got it ;o)
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>> This is what I am using to monitor the level of my water butt
>> (eventually I plan to automate the filter on the drain pipe to
turn on
>> and off depending on level in the butt). The Sonic sensor ranges
from
>> 6" to 255" inches with a voltage step for each inch. I
feed this
>> into a
>> Idratek QAI (slightly customised by the guys before dispatched to
go
>> from 0 to 3V instead of the normal 0 to 5v) and it can then be
scaled
>> in Cortex.
>>
>> Paul
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