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Monitoring Water Level in a Tank

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I wan to automate a test that I conduct frequently.  I want to record the drop in water level in a water tank over 30 minutes then trigger a valve with solenoid (able to operate by gravity flow, no pressured water) to refill the water back to same level and then wait another 30 minutes.  Each time interval will have a set of data representing the water level in the tank.  I was told I need a microcontroller, an e-tape (from Milone technologies) and a water valve.  Can anyone help in pointing out what instruments are needed and how to connect them.  I was told that I don't need a data logger if the controller can control a valve and log data.  If someone an help , I will draw a sketch if needed. Regards

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  • I was referring to my son, Nathan, when I said 'probably needs the money.'  I don't even know that to be the case, he is an engineer, he works with PLCs, just got his master's lives in Portland Ore.  I live in Chicago, so most of our contact is by phone or video.  He has two young children so I can't help but worry, even though, consciously I am aware that he is fine.  I was as much trying to twit him in case he read it as much as find him work, pardon my duplicity.  On another note his brother is soon to join Elem14 as notB_Hersey.  He feels this way he can get schematics from me without having to clean my garage in exchange.

     

    I am treading water financially, a state to which I have grown accustomed.  Both of my kids are out of college now and into corporate life, a state of affairs over which I am elated.  I will probably calm down and put out a shingle and set rates at some point, if I don't simply go to school myself.  Right now I am giddy to have mounted this plateau.  If another engineer needs the money for practical reasons, they are free to take the job if it turns out to be a commercial thing so far as I am concerned.  The job I am working now is rehabilitating a house I own in the suburbs, which I want to trade it for a house in the exurbs so I can have more room for electronic parts and math models and tools and bikes and stuff.  But this is a task I can take up or put down pretty much at will so I could take the job as well.

     

    What you need are precise definitions.  What would be the ideal solution?  What would be a minimal practical solution.  What solution would (the mean course is the best) Aristotle recommend?  Pardon my curiosity, is this about making sorbent socks?

     

    Probably the next level in sophistication would be to use ultrasound to gauge tank level.  This would typically require software which has its own associated costs. Every step up in sophistication requires more time and money.  You do not want to have (one more victory such as this and we are undone) Pyrrhic victory here.  Make sure the steps you take are economically justified and incremental-ized, is my humble advice. 

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  • I was referring to my son, Nathan, when I said 'probably needs the money.'  I don't even know that to be the case, he is an engineer, he works with PLCs, just got his master's lives in Portland Ore.  I live in Chicago, so most of our contact is by phone or video.  He has two young children so I can't help but worry, even though, consciously I am aware that he is fine.  I was as much trying to twit him in case he read it as much as find him work, pardon my duplicity.  On another note his brother is soon to join Elem14 as notB_Hersey.  He feels this way he can get schematics from me without having to clean my garage in exchange.

     

    I am treading water financially, a state to which I have grown accustomed.  Both of my kids are out of college now and into corporate life, a state of affairs over which I am elated.  I will probably calm down and put out a shingle and set rates at some point, if I don't simply go to school myself.  Right now I am giddy to have mounted this plateau.  If another engineer needs the money for practical reasons, they are free to take the job if it turns out to be a commercial thing so far as I am concerned.  The job I am working now is rehabilitating a house I own in the suburbs, which I want to trade it for a house in the exurbs so I can have more room for electronic parts and math models and tools and bikes and stuff.  But this is a task I can take up or put down pretty much at will so I could take the job as well.

     

    What you need are precise definitions.  What would be the ideal solution?  What would be a minimal practical solution.  What solution would (the mean course is the best) Aristotle recommend?  Pardon my curiosity, is this about making sorbent socks?

     

    Probably the next level in sophistication would be to use ultrasound to gauge tank level.  This would typically require software which has its own associated costs. Every step up in sophistication requires more time and money.  You do not want to have (one more victory such as this and we are undone) Pyrrhic victory here.  Make sure the steps you take are economically justified and incremental-ized, is my humble advice. 

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