Water Flow Control Valve Arduino

Arduino water flow sensor working.

Water flow control valve arduino.

For hooking up to an arduino a belimo flow valve one example vendor only seems appropriately named. In this drawing the manual valve is opened and the motorized valve is therefore bypassed. There will be no interrupt signal seen at the pin 2 of the arduino and the count of the flow frequency will be zero. The first device is installed by city water supply services to control water pressure.

Most solenoid valves are not for continuous use. These are commercial type valves used to control water in heater systems and such. The motorized valve in blue is installed in parallel with a manual valve. I installed the part on the top of the picture.

Here circuit has a 12v dc solenoid and it is powered by an external supply. When current is flowing in the magnet it creates heat. Main water entry is located on the bottom. Dc solenoid valves are available with 6v 12v 24v 120v 240v operating voltages.

In our project we connected the water flow sensor to a pipe. Now this is not the only variable. If you power the magnet with the expected current voltage the valve will open and the water will flow. There are many types of solenoid for instance there are solenoid valves which can be used to open or close water or gas pipelines and there are solenoid plungers which are used to produce linear motion.

If the output valve of the pipe is closed the output of the water flow sensor is zero no pulses. The keyword search is motorized flow control valve and that will find you many. The controller i used in this example is or better say was a t14e model. Arduino solenoid valve control circuit here shows the simple arrangement to interface a solenoid valve with arduino.

For no normally open it is exactly the contrary.