A water meter with an impulser, i.e. a work of automation

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#1 29 Sep 2017 15:54

Hello.
I am honored to present my present work committed in 15 minutes during the performance of works at the end of the world, i.e. in Central Poland.
Needed was a flow meter with pulse output to control the chemistry dosing pump. Of course, there are ready-made flow meters / water meters with such a function, only that within a radius of 30km, they are not immediately available.
The system had a built-in water meter with a mechanical counter, and a reed switch sensor at the pneumatic cylinder position, a small neodymium magnet and a cyanoacrylate adhesive. After disassembling the measuring system, I made a notch in the measuring disk 1dm? / revolution and I put in them a magnet with dimensions of 2x3x3mm. I attached the reed switch to the lid and it was ready:

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#2 29 Sep 2017 21:02

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#2 29 Sep 2017 21:02

I wonder how much he will lower the indications
#3 01 Oct 2017 06:03

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#3 01 Oct 2017 06:03

Well ... you have to save somehow. If there is nothing else at hand ... Clever
#4 01 Oct 2017 08:38

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#4 01 Oct 2017 08:38

Hello.

No revelation. If you did it without opening the meter and put it on a sealed counter it would be a feat.

And since you have a meter unsealed, it was necessary between the overlay and the mechanism to insert the HALL sensor
there is already a magnet that carries information from the mechanical part (hermetically sealed)
for the counting part (plastic "kulak").
#5 01 Oct 2017 08:47

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#5 01 Oct 2017 08:47

Where did he get from this choker Halla when he could:

Art.B wrote:
at hand there was a reed sensor of the position of the piston from the pneumatic cylinder, a small neodymium magnet and cyanoacrylate adhesive.

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#6 01 Oct 2017 09:24

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#6 01 Oct 2017 09:24

On the one hand, the great applause for creativity, most automata can unfortunately only think about learned schemes. On the other hand, a machine part was not available on the market. So it's not removable in the event of a failure.
#7 01 Oct 2017 09:53

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#7 01 Oct 2017 09:53

The system was not used for billing, so removing the seal was not a problem. By the way, it turned out that in newer water meters there is an insert made of some sintered powder around the magnetic clutch, shielding in the event of attempting to block the water meter with an external magnetic field. The dosing pumps have an input on the NO contacts, so the reed switch has the advantage over the hallotron that it does not need power. I could have even less interference in the water meter and mount on it a small reflective sensor (it was at hand) that would work with a counter-painted water meter (3/4 black matte, 1/4 mirror), but it would require pulling a 10m 24V power supply from the neighboring the room, where there is a boiler control cabinet with a power supply, and adding a relay to control the pump. The customer was, of course, informed about the application of such a solution and agreed to it. In the event of failure, replace the commercially available water meter with reed switch.
#8 04 Oct 2017 02:13

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#8 04 Oct 2017 02:13

Phew, Central Poland ... Pawns ... 250 zl .... somewhat more ... elegant, right? It went to Suriname a week
#9 04 Oct 2017 06:33

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#9 04 Oct 2017 06:33

Hehe. The supplier well known to me, actually one of the most interesting sensor sources at good prices. Only 100km one way. In addition, as I have already written, a primitive water meter with no-reed contacts is enough to control the dosing pump. Price approx. PLN 100. It's just that the topic was urgent, and on this spill they are not in any shop within a radius of 30km, and go to Łódź or Wawy me not calculated (fuel cost comparable to the cost of a water meter, I will not mention the time).
#10 14 Feb 2018 07:54

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#10 14 Feb 2018 07:54

Krzysztof Kamienski wrote:
Phew, Central Poland ... Pawns ... 250 zl .... somewhat more ... elegant, right? It went to Suriname a week

Hello.

Only that what in the picture is how I remember is the switch and not the pulser.
You can set the min-max flow.
greetings
#11 14 Feb 2018 14:30

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#11 14 Feb 2018 14:30

The impulser has also been operating as a flow meter in a certain industrial installation for a year.
#12 27 Apr 2018 17:51

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#12 27 Apr 2018 17:51

@ Art.B
My guess is that the measurement needed to control the chlorator? If so, I would have a few questions (:
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