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Re: [ECS] Re: Water Flow Detection/Shut-off David Mccoll Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:08:39 -0800

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Brilliant idea. Now the alarm goes off when the cockroaches get headaches.

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From: GREAMS@VIRON.com <GREAMS@VIRON.com>
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Re: Water Flow Detection/Shut-off


>Another way of detecting water that I have seen is:
>Use one of those little microswitches with the steel lever which pushes
down
>the microswitch, position the lever on top of an aspirin tablet laying on
the
>floor.
>
>A small amount of standing water melts aspirin tablet, allowing the
>microswitch to close.
>
>Steven Wegman ha scritto:
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>
>>  I have a house in NY, in which the kitchen sink
>> water pipe broke last week.  The water ran for several days, before it
was
>> detected by a neighbor (when the water started flowing out the front
door),
>> and has caused a lot of damage.  I would like to obtain this water shut
off
>> controller and install it in my NY and MD house to prevent a future
>> occurrence.
>
>If you get to have a valve controlling the main water pipe, it's easy to
>create a water sensor using just 2 copper wires or screws which touch
>the floor and detect any conductive liquid between them. Both device can
>be easyly connected to a PC.
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>Dario
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