RE: Water flow sensors?

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - good idea and I think I already have 2 old stats somewhere -
I'll hav=
e a think on that...

Cheers,

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Tim Hawes
> Sent: 24 October 2007 16:29
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Water flow sensors?
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> Paul,
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> You could probably do this with a number of =A310 cylinder thermostats
> clamped to the pipe, *but* I'm not sure whether they'd be responsive
> enough if you're using plastic instead of copper. I guess you could
> fit a copper section into your piping and mount the thermostats on
> those and if you're adding sensing capability near the showers, that
> pipework may be in copper anyway...
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> Although mains-rated, the simple thermostats are dry-contacts anyway.
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> HTH,
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> Tim.
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> On 10/24/07, Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a cost effective DHW water flow sensor? i.e.
not
> a =A3100
> > each RS part! ;)
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> > As my replacement heating system is going in, I want to fit 3 x
water
> flow
> > sensors in 15mm plastic (JG speedfit) to the supplies to the hot
feed
> on 3 x
> > showers. The contacts need to be simple no-volt contacts that
will
> then feed
> > into HomeVision. This will allow me to do some clever stuff like
> turning on
> > fans and electric mirror heaters etc.
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> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul.
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