Water Meter

The Signet 8150-P totalizer is probably what you saw but that baby cost $450
just for the readout. The 515 sensor is another $250.

I built my own from a GEMS RotoFlow sensor, a PIC microprocessor and about
$1,000 in after hours programming time.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
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"b393capt" <danielwcorcoran.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151936134.047965.17310@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Where can I find a water meter with a remote display, to measure my
> fresh water usage at a connection near my manifold or water pump, and
> display 10 feet away ? Just need to see cumlative usage in gallons,
> and have a reset button each time I fill the tank.
>
> When I was in St. Martin I saw a digital water use meter in a Lagoon
> 4100, and was surprised how hard it is to find on the web sites
>
> Dan
>
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Al alternative would be a GEMS RotoFlow sensor for $100 and a M103 totalizer
readout for another $150. Try:
http://gemssensors.com/SpecTemplateStandard.asp?nProductGroupID=117 for the
readout and
http://gemssensors.com/SpecTemplateStandard.asp?nProductGroupID=113 for the
paddle wheel sensors. You can buy them on line at the site.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Glenn Ashmore" <gashmore.TakeThisOut@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Btaqg.115627$Ce1.5896@dukeread01...
> The Signet 8150-P totalizer is probably what you saw but that baby cost
> $450 just for the readout. The 515 sensor is another $250.
>
> I built my own from a GEMS RotoFlow sensor, a PIC microprocessor and about
> $1,000 in after hours programming time.
>
> --
> Glenn Ashmore
>
> I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
> there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
> Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com
>
> "b393capt" <danielwcorcoran.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1151936134.047965.17310@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Where can I find a water meter with a remote display, to measure my
>> fresh water usage at a connection near my manifold or water pump, and
>> display 10 feet away ? Just need to see cumlative usage in gallons,
>> and have a reset button each time I fill the tank.
>>
>> When I was in St. Martin I saw a digital water use meter in a Lagoon
>> 4100, and was surprised how hard it is to find on the web sites
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
>
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"b393capt" <danielwcorcoran.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1151936134.047965.17310@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Where can I find a water meter with a remote display

http://www.gwf.ch/produkte-n6-r55-sE.html
http://www.idswater.com/water/us/Water_Meters_AMR/24/category_directory.htm
l
http://www.energycite.com/amr.htm
http://www.globalw.com/products/CZ50WS.html
http://www.edcheung.com/automa/water.htm
http://www.denverwater.org/custserve/residential/amr.html
http://www.emon.com/pdfs/watercoldT300153.pdf
http://www.globalw.com/products/CZ2000.html

Well, that'll get you started. I got 1,380,000 hits from Google when I put
in "remote reading digital water meter" without the quote marks.

Bon Appetit!
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"Glenn Ashmore" <gashmore.TakeThisOut@cox.net> wrote in news:xUaqg.115629$Ce1.87539
@dukeread01:

> You can buy them

Oh, oh, this might be trouble....(c;
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b393capt wrote:
> Where can I find a water meter with a remote display, to measure my
> fresh water usage at a connection near my manifold or water pump, and
> display 10 feet away ? Just need to see cumlative usage in gallons,
> and have a reset button each time I fill the tank.
>
> When I was in St. Martin I saw a digital water use meter in a Lagoon
> 4100, and was surprised how hard it is to find on the web sites
>
> Dan

The UK Government is debating whether to fit around 10 million of them in
the South of England, perhaps you should wait until the order is placed?
Bulk pricing?
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Why do you want to meassur the flow/usage. Why don't you just meassure whats
left in the tank ?

Bjarke

"b393capt" <danielwcorcoran.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151936134.047965.17310@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Where can I find a water meter with a remote display, to measure my
> fresh water usage at a connection near my manifold or water pump, and
> display 10 feet away ? Just need to see cumlative usage in gallons,
> and have a reset button each time I fill the tank.
>
> When I was in St. Martin I saw a digital water use meter in a Lagoon
> 4100, and was surprised how hard it is to find on the web sites
>
> Dan
>
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In article <1151936134.047965.17310.TakeThisOut@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "b393capt" <danielwcorcoran.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Where can I find a water meter with a remote display, to measure my
>fresh water usage at a connection near my manifold or water pump, and
>display 10 feet away ? Just need to see cumlative usage in gallons,
>and have a reset button each time I fill the tank.
>
>When I was in St. Martin I saw a digital water use meter in a Lagoon
>4100, and was surprised how hard it is to find on the web sites
>
>Dan
>

http://www.jerman.com/counter.html
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>
> The UK Government is debating whether to fit around 10 million of them in
> the South of England, perhaps you should wait until the order is placed?
> Bulk pricing?

<rant>

Yes, it will go UP by 200% due to the specialised interface, non
standard thread and targeted health and safety requirements that some
beurocrat will impose on the order. They will arrive 2 years late and
be installed backwards. They will of course be supplied from China thus
depriving a uk industry of work. The remote interface will not be
compatible with any other hardware or software in existence. This will
kick off a massive software contract to one of the big contracting
house to build a remote billing package. The proof of concept test will
send out credit notes to everyone involved in the pilot and make
demands for the negative sums to be paid immediatelly. 3 people will
end up in jail over unpaid council tax bills.

6 months into the actual project the public will riot in the streets
because they realise that their water is being measured in litres
rather than cubic feet, however the project will proceed in spite of
the public outcry.

During all of this the water companies will have decided that they have
been instrumental in transforming the face of resource usage in the UK
and will award their board members 50 million pound bonusses.

At the end of the project someone will discover that to save costs the
installation contractors omitted the required PTFE thread tape and
there are 10 million water meters all leaking 1 litre per hour into the
ground thus negating the point of the whole project.

An enquiry will go out for 1 million 50000 litre water tankers, to be
parked at the end of each residential street with suitable brass taps
to allow housholders to collect supplies in plastic drums. ( hey they
do it in Africa it must be a workable solution )

Actually it wont be a problem because all the reservoirs will be empty
and there wont be any water to deliver anyway.

<rant\>

What me a cynic?
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http://www.jerman.com/plasmeter.html

http://www.waterwatchdog.com/
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nimbusgb wrote:
>> The UK Government is debating whether to fit around 10 million of
>> them in the South of England, perhaps you should wait until the
>> order is placed? Bulk pricing?
>
> <rant>
>
> Yes, it will go UP by 200% due to the specialised interface, non
> standard thread and targeted health and safety requirements that some
> beurocrat will impose on the order. They will arrive 2 years late and
> be installed backwards. They will of course be supplied from China
> thus depriving a uk industry of work. The remote interface will not be
> compatible with any other hardware or software in existence. This will
> kick off a massive software contract to one of the big contracting
> house to build a remote billing package. The proof of concept test
> will send out credit notes to everyone involved in the pilot and make
> demands for the negative sums to be paid immediatelly. 3 people will
> end up in jail over unpaid council tax bills.
>
> 6 months into the actual project the public will riot in the streets
> because they realise that their water is being measured in litres
> rather than cubic feet, however the project will proceed in spite of
> the public outcry.
>
> During all of this the water companies will have decided that they
> have been instrumental in transforming the face of resource usage in
> the UK and will award their board members 50 million pound bonusses.
>
> At the end of the project someone will discover that to save costs the
> installation contractors omitted the required PTFE thread tape and
> there are 10 million water meters all leaking 1 litre per hour into
> the ground thus negating the point of the whole project.
>
> An enquiry will go out for 1 million 50000 litre water tankers, to be
> parked at the end of each residential street with suitable brass taps
> to allow housholders to collect supplies in plastic drums. ( hey they
> do it in Africa it must be a workable solution )
>
> Actually it wont be a problem because all the reservoirs will be empty
> and there wont be any water to deliver anyway.
>
> <rant\>
>
> What me a cynic?

Everything you say is true, but it does keep unemployment down!
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