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Routing the water

A project log for Project Demetra

A smart automated balcony plants watering system

fabioFabio 05/30/2017 at 06:450 Comments

Here we are with another project log, so, after run some test with my working water pump and some minor tuning on the APP I start to looking for a couple of nice and reliable water solenoids in order to control where the water is flowing. In this way I can virtually manage all the pots I need to water, at the moment to keep the costs low I got my hands on a couple of 12v Water Solenoid valves.

As I am located in Italy I couldn't find the exact model I bought and I don't know in wich country they are available and in wich country they aren't , but, any kind and variant of those

https://www.amazon.com/Fafada-Electric-Solenoid-Switch-Normally/dp/B00MP5WY3Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496125640&sr=8-1&keywords=fafada+water+solenoid+valve

will do the work.

Then I needed to double the size of my two channel relay, so I bought one with 4 channel, something like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/DZS-Elec-Channel-Protection-Expansion/dp/B06XRYGM2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496125885&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=4+channel+relay&psc=1

They should arrive tomorrow, so in the meantime I started to drawn a simple fritzing schema of the wiring:

I know it's a bit messy, but it's just to give a rough idea on how the connections and the wiring should be made. If anyone has got any questions just ask ;)

See you on the next LOG!

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