Solenoid Valve Water Flow Control Arduino
These are commercial type valves used to control water in heater systems and such.
Solenoid valve water flow control arduino. Meaning what if i didn t want to have the water flowing fully and have the valve opened partially. Hi can i control the water flow with these kinda solenoid valve. This circuit allows the arduino which runs at 5v to turn on the water valve which runs at 12v. Dc solenoid valves are available with 6v 12v 24v 120v 240v operating voltages.
To arduino control a solenoid you ll need a way to control a lot of current with the board s limited control outputs. They take a 0 10 v input signal as control and will rotate the vale. Here shows the simple arrangement to interface a solenoid valve with arduino. The keyword search is motorized flow control valve and that will find you many.
Water flow sensor and solenoid valve demo. Arduino solenoid valve control circuit. The flow of water is controlled automatically using the ir infrared sensor. The main purpose of this project is to stop wasting water.
This tutorial is based on the automatic water tap control system using arduino uno or mega 12 volt solenoid valve infrared sensor and a 12 volt spdt type relay. The solenoid we have picked for this tutorial is our plastic water solenoid valve perfect for controlling flow to a drip irrigation system but this tutorial can be applied to most inductive loads including relays solenoids and basic dc motors. For hooking up to an arduino a belimo flow valve one example vendor only seems appropriately named. Without this type of switch it wouldn t be possible or would be really difficult to get these two different pieces to work together.
Pushbutton 2 nos. In this case we ll be using a tip120 power darlington transistor. Here circuit has a 12v dc solenoid and it is powered by an external supply. Resistor 10k 100k diode 1n4007.
The solenoid draws a continuous current of 700ma when energized and a peak of nearly 1 2a so we have to consider these things while designing the solenoid driver circuit for this particular solenoid valve.