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[GMCnet] Water Level Indicator -- do it yourself [message #324625] Thu, 05 October 2017 12:18 Go to next message
emerystora is currently offline  emerystora   United States
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Here is an interesting water level sensor gauge which can light LEDs to show water level.
It should be easy to adapt this idea to the GMC water tank.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Water-Level-Indicator-Using-Magnets/

Floats could be made with closed cell poly foam instead of the authors use of a 3D printer.

In the readers comments one person suggests that instead of lighting LEDs it could couple a series of resistors so that a
regular water tank (fuel) gauge could read the water level.

Emery Stora
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Frederick, CO
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Re: [GMCnet] Water Level Indicator -- do it yourself [message #324640 is a reply to message #324625] Thu, 05 October 2017 22:26 Go to previous message
GatsbysCruise is currently offline  GatsbysCruise   United States
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A supplier that I use for electronics parts has a float type switch for level indication. I believe it uses a reed switch and also has a thermistor for temperature indications. You'd have to supply the electronics for the temp reader.

https://www.allelectronics.com/item/flw-1/float-switch-with-integrated-thermistor/1.html

FLOAT SWITCH WITH INTEGRATED THERMISTOR

CAT# FLW-1
$3.50 each
10 or more $3.00 each

EDIT::: 171006

Sorry for the edit, but as I was sitting in the GMC doing some internal revisions, I was thinking, if the OEM sensors send a resistance reading to the panel, perhaps these could work with a resistor on each line from the float sw, to indicate level???


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