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Using an Omron pulse counter and Hall-effect flow sensors

ngant17
ngant17 over 8 years ago

I am using an Omron H7EC pulse counter to display pulse output from a typical 2-wire reed switch water meter with pulse output.  I am able to get pulses to show up on the Omron counter.  However, I am planning to use 3-wire Hall-effect flow sensors for an irrigation project and I'd like  to know how to hook up the Omron counter to display pulses from the 3-wire sensor and not use the more expense 2-wire flow sensors. image

 

With Hall-effect flow sensors, there is a signal wire, and a 5vdc negative and positive wire for power.   Using an Arduino board,  I supply the 5vdc to the 3-wire flow sensor and the signal wire goes to the digital input on the Arduino.  Metering shows up via the Arduino IDE and the serial monitor with my laptop/desktop.

 

So my question is how to run the 3-wire Hall-effect flow sensor to the Omron H7EC counter.  I only need this as a quick test out in the field to verify flow sensor operation. Not worried about GPMs or liters/sec. as calibrated water flow but just raw pulse counts.  Obviously, I'm going to use the signal wire for one connect, but that leaves the other 2 wires from this flow sensor which need  the 5vdc power supply.  So do I use a negative or positive wire to connect to the other terminal on the Omron counter?  If so, is there going to be a 10k resistor or diode or some additional components on one of the other 2 wires to get the pulses to display on the Omron counter?

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    0 jw0752 over 8 years ago

    Hi Nathan,

     

    Here is a link that has the data sheet for the H7EC counter. You have to download it which I did. They have some illustrations on how to hook it up in different circumstances. I am hoping one of the guys with more experience than I will jump in and give you better information. I do not know if your Hall sensor has enough output to trigger the counter or if a buffer circuit will need to be used. I don't think you would harm it by putting the signal from the Hall Sensor on the input and the negative terminal of the Hall sensor on the input common but I am not positive.

     

    https://industrial.omron.us/en/products/h7ec#downloads

     

    John

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    0 ngant17 over 8 years ago in reply to jw0752

    Well I played around with it and fortunately didn't manage to fry some nice electronic circuits.

     

    With the Omron counter and the Arduino, you have to hook up the signal in a specific order.

     

    Signal output from flow sensor must go to Contact #2 on back of Omron unit.  Contact #1 on back of Omron unit goes directly to digital I/O pin on the Arduino.  Doesn't seem to matter which pin, and I tried it on analog side and also got pulse counts.  I'm guess the current needs a place to flow an output into the Arduino to get a signal on the Omron display.

     

    Power (pos. and neg.) goes in the normal pins to feed the signal for the hall-effect flow sensor.

     

    I also have a generic pulse counter, model: GDD7939CT-P24V-BU  from AliExpress.  It cycles up to 999 and then goes back to zero.  It has to be wired up slightly different but will work with the hall-effect flow sensors and the 2-wire flow sensors.

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