Many years ago during the water drought period, Remember when we had to put a brick or a plastic bag full of water into our toilet cisterns to save on water?
well it was my younger days when I was well into electronics designing, I had an idea to design and build myself an electronic water meter this would enable me to see the amount of water we were using.
I set about the design and came up with a digital read-out water meter, the only problem I had was getting it to read out more than 500ltrs, So I settled for 500ltrs because I was using it for home use and fitted it to my shower unit.
The system was a 2 digital read-out going up to 99ltrs, once 99ltrs was reached by the digital read-out, it would reset to 0ltrs and an led would light up indicating I had used 100ltrs of water, the counter would then continue until another 100ltrs of water was used and then the second led would light and so on until the system had reached 500ltrs.
I found my old drawings and designs and I sat there trying to see if I could increase it to read-out endless ltrs, to enable it to be used on a wfp system the sad thing is, no matter how much I sit and study it, I can't see the answer, I checked the Internet for an electronic controller and came across plenty of them for industrial use and costing many hundreds of pounds, so just buying one off the shelf is out of the question and certainly not feasible for our use.
I will however continue to look for the answer.
Would you use a electronic water meter if one was available? or would I just be wasting my time and money on something not many guys wanted.
I feel in my own mind I would like to know exactly how many ltrs a day I was using or maybe even how many ltrs a week or month I was going through.
Any thoughts or questions on this one I would be grateful for.
Also if there are any electronic engineers out there that may be able to help me increase the out-put using a PIC 16C54 controller chip, the whole system runs on 6v (4 pencil batteries) I can post my drawings so you can cast your eye's across them.