Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

mayermakes — Tue, 18 May 2021 18:48:32 GMT

Incredible execution! Practiacal to the max, very practical indeed...I should build me one of those ....
my favourite part is the multiplicity of safety features. And the humorous intro!

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

beacon_dave — Sat, 08 May 2021 19:26:57 GMT

"...As you can imagine, a corner like that is a great place to store things..."

Now there is someone who has confidence in their design ! (or has a lot of SCUBA gear to store...)

You perhaps could adapt some of this to make a 'smart siphon'. Have an exit valve that opens proportionally to the rate of water ingress so that the siphon never empties to the point that requires re-priming.

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

javagoza — Thu, 06 May 2021 06:30:55 GMT

[mention:e150bbdfa73b4f869b1c3bd03afb5272:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] Congratulations Mike! You have created a useful and well developed project.

The video is a lot of fun, sure there are many hours of hard work behind the scenes that are not seen.

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

shabaz — Wed, 05 May 2021 22:16:23 GMT

Hi Mike,

Great project & video! (& Scarface reference : ).

The Range/Gesture sensors look quite versatile, if they had both worked, I was thinking maybe one of them could have been used for the float switch too, instead of the photo-interruptor. But it all worked out since you had the photo-interruptor to use anyway!

It's really annoying that power banks have that auto-off feature : )

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

baldengineer — Wed, 05 May 2021 20:27:24 GMT

Great project [mention:e150bbdfa73b4f869b1c3bd03afb5272:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]!

I think you came up with a clever use for the photo-interrupter.

This display has an SPI interface even though the screen printing would lead someone to assume I2C. The [Buy Now] button said the interface was SPI so that was what I ran with. I connected SDA to MOSI (D8) and clock to clock and it worked.

Just about all of these small LCD/OLED modules use I2C names for their pins. It comes from the driver chips only have one set of data pins, but supporting both I2C or SPI. It's up to the board the display gets mounted to, to determine which mode the chip operates in. Related, the ones that *are* I2C, have the wrong address printed on them. (or do they?)

RE: Build Inside The Box - Sump Pump Alarm

DAB — Wed, 05 May 2021 19:27:21 GMT

Nice build,

DAB