Water Flow Control Valve Arduino

Arduino water flow sensor working.

Water flow control valve arduino.

If you power the magnet with the expected current voltage the valve will open and the water will flow. Here circuit has a 12v dc solenoid and it is powered by an external supply. Main water entry is located on the bottom. They take a 0 10 v input signal as control and will rotate the vale.

In this blog post i will show how to drive a water valve from a gardena water timer computer using arduino uno. The keyword search is motorized flow control valve and that will find you many. Arduino solenoid valve control circuit here shows the simple arrangement to interface a solenoid valve with arduino. The motorized valve in blue is installed in parallel with a manual valve.

Dc solenoid valves are available with 6v 12v 24v 120v 240v operating voltages. I installed the part on the top of the picture. Now this is not the only variable. There are many types of solenoid for instance there are solenoid valves which can be used to open or close water or gas pipelines and there are solenoid plungers which are used to produce linear motion.

For no normally open it is exactly the contrary. These are commercial type valves used to control water in heater systems and such. For hooking up to an arduino a belimo flow valve one example vendor only seems appropriately named. The first device is installed by city water supply services to control water pressure.

Hardware setup to control a solenoid valve with arduino solenoids are very commonly used actuators in many process automation systems. In this drawing the manual valve is opened and the motorized valve is therefore bypassed. If the output valve of the pipe is closed the output of the water flow sensor is zero no pulses. Most solenoid valves are not for continuous use.

When current is flowing in the magnet it creates heat.