Manual
Usage Example
Note: This example is abstracted from the forum, which was done by Charles Gantt. Thanks for his
contribution.Let's see how it works.
Reading Water Flow rate with Water Flow Sensor
This is part of a project I have been working on and I thought I would share it here since there have been
a few threads on how to read water flow rate in liters per hour using the Water Flow Sensor found in the
Seeed Studio Depo. It uses a simple rotating wheel that pulses a hall effect sensor. By reading these
pulses and implementing a little math, we can read the liquids flow rate accurate to within 3%. The
threads are simple G1/2 so finding barbed ends will not be that hard.
Hardware Installation
You will need Seeeduino / Arduino ,Water Flow Sensor,10K resistor,a breadboard and some jumper
wires.
Wiring up the Water Flow Sensor is pretty simple. There are 3 wires: Black, Red, and Yellow. Black to the
Seeeduino's ground pin Red to Seeeduino's 5v pin The yellow wire will need to be connected to a 10k
pull up resistor.and then to pin 2 on the Seeeduino.
Here is a fritzing diagram I made to show you how to wire it all
up.