G3/4″ Thread Hall Effect Liquid Water Flow Sensor Switch Flow Meter COM35

Fr13,400

Water flow sensor consists of a plastic valve body, a water rotor, and a hall-effect sensor. When water flows through the rotor, rotor rolls. Its speed changes with different rate of flow. The hall-effect sensor outputs the corresponding pulse Signal.

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Description

Water flow sensor consists of a copper body, a water rotor, and a hall-effect sensor. When water flows through the rotor, rotor rolls. Its speed changes with different rate of flow. The hall-effect sensor outputs the corresponding pulse signal. This one is suitable to detect flow in water dispenser or coffee machine.

Life is longer than plastic body.

Features

  • Compact, Easy to Install
  • High Sealing Performance
  • High Quality Hall Effect Sensor
  • RoHS Compliant

Specifications

  • Mini. Working Voltage: DC 4.5V
  • Max. Working Current: 15mA (DC 5V)
  • Working Voltage: DC 5V~15V
  • Flow Rate Range: 1~30L/min
  • Frequency:  F=6.6*Q(Q=L/MIN)
  • Load Capacity: ≤10mA (DC 5V)
  • Operating Temperature: ≤80℃
  • Liquid Temperature: ≤120℃
  • Operating Humidity: 35%～90%RH
  • Water Pressure: ≤1.75MPa
  • Storage Temperature: -25～+ 80℃
  • Storage Humidity: 25%～95%RH

Getting started with the G3/4″ Thread Hall Effect Liquid Water Flow Sensor Switch Flow Meter

This is part of a project I have been working on and I thought I would share it here since there have been a few threads on how to read water flow rate in liters per min using the Water Flow Sensor .

Hardware required

Connecting the Hardware

Wiring up the Water Flow Sensor is pretty simple. There are 3 wires: Black, Red, and Yellow. Black to the ground pin Red to  5v pin The yellow wire will need to be connected to a 10k pull up resistor.and then to pin 2 on the Arduino.

Upload the sample sketch

Measure the liquid/water flow rate using this code.
Connect Vcc and Gnd of sensor to arduino, and the
signal line to arduino digital pin 2.

*/

byte statusLed = 13;

byte sensorInterrupt = 0; // 0 = digital pin 2
byte sensorPin = 2;

// The hall-effect flow sensor outputs approximately 4.5 pulses per second per
// litre/minute of flow.
float calibrationFactor = 4.5;

volatile byte pulseCount;

float flowRate;
unsigned int flowMilliLitres;
unsigned long totalMilliLitres;

unsigned long oldTime;

void setup()
{

// Initialize a serial connection for reporting values to the host
Serial.begin(9600);

// Set up the status LED line as an output
pinMode(statusLed, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(statusLed, HIGH); // We have an active-low LED attached

pinMode(sensorPin, INPUT);
digitalWrite(sensorPin, HIGH);

pulseCount = 0;
flowRate = 0.0;
flowMilliLitres = 0;
totalMilliLitres = 0;
oldTime = 0;

// The Hall-effect sensor is connected to pin 2 which uses interrupt 0.
// Configured to trigger on a FALLING state change (transition from HIGH
// state to LOW state)
attachInterrupt(sensorInterrupt, pulseCounter, FALLING);
}

/**
* Main program loop
*/
void loop()
{

if((millis() – oldTime) > 1000) // Only process counters once per second
{
// Disable the interrupt while calculating flow rate and sending the value to
// the host
detachInterrupt(sensorInterrupt);

// Because this loop may not complete in exactly 1 second intervals we calculate
// the number of milliseconds that have passed since the last execution and use
// that to scale the output. We also apply the calibrationFactor to scale the output
// based on the number of pulses per second per units of measure (litres/minute in
// this case) coming from the sensor.
flowRate = ((1000.0 / (millis() – oldTime)) * pulseCount) / calibrationFactor;

// Note the time this processing pass was executed. Note that because we’ve
// disabled interrupts the millis() function won’t actually be incrementing right
// at this point, but it will still return the value it was set to just before
// interrupts went away.
oldTime = millis();

// Divide the flow rate in litres/minute by 60 to determine how many litres have
// passed through the sensor in this 1 second interval, then multiply by 1000 to
// convert to millilitres.
flowMilliLitres = (flowRate / 60) * 1000;

// Add the millilitres passed in this second to the cumulative total
totalMilliLitres += flowMilliLitres;

unsigned int frac;

// Print the flow rate for this second in litres / minute
Serial.print(“Flow rate: “);
Serial.print(int(flowRate)); // Print the integer part of the variable
Serial.print(“L/min”);
Serial.print(“t”); // Print tab space

// Print the cumulative total of litres flowed since starting
Serial.print(“Output Liquid Quantity: “);
Serial.print(totalMilliLitres);
Serial.println(“mL”);
Serial.print(“t”); // Print tab space
Serial.print(totalMilliLitres/1000);
Serial.print(“L”);

// Reset the pulse counter so we can start incrementing again
pulseCount = 0;

// Enable the interrupt again now that we’ve finished sending output
attachInterrupt(sensorInterrupt, pulseCounter, FALLING);
}
}

/*
Insterrupt Service Routine
*/
void pulseCounter()
{
// Increment the pulse counter
pulseCount++;
}

NOTE: IF you  get stray ‘223’ errors ,stray ‘226’ in program  The problem is with your ” / = ( and ”  ) – * > characters. Replace them with ordinary quotes ” / =  ”  () – * >   and you should be fine.

Testing the circuit

Once you have it wired up you will need to upload the following code . Once it is uploaded and you have some fluid flowing through the Water Flow Sensor, you can open the serial monitor and it will display the flow rate.

 

 

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