Re: Reading water meter?

["Bill Stock" <me7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob" <avcbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bill,
>
> Take a look at 'http://jerman.com/dljcmeters.html'.  I've never dealt
> with this co, but they do have soutions for my needs.  I have been
> thinking of doing something like what you are looking at.  I don't know
> what you'd use for software.  If you have an idea, let me know!!
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> Bill Stock wrote:
>> Is anyone reading their water meter with a PC? I gather it's just a
>> serial
>> (RS485?) connection to the outside world? I did a quick search but did
>> not
>> find anything useful. I'd like to log the usage of the sprinklers.
>>
>> TIA.
>

Thanks Bob,

That helps a little. But I'm a little fuzzy on the pulse counter changes
from Rate to Total. There's obviously some sort of control sequence, but
they aren't big on the details. I was hoping to build my own circuit.
Something like this http://jerman.com/ABB%20PDFS/IND-ER-100.pdf provides a
4-20 ma output, which I could read with the Ocelot.

It also talks about restting the Totals a lot. I'd hate to end up with a
100K water bill! :)