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hugokernel / esphome-water-meter

Measurement of water consumption directly from your water meter with a TCRT5000 like sensor and ESPHome.
MIT License
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Sensor Placement and distance #4

Open h4sk33r opened 2 years ago

h4sk33r commented 2 years ago

Hi,

first of all thank you for your work. Unfortunately I am not able to get this system to work properly on my Sensus 620 watermeter. Is there a specific place on the rotary disc to place the sensor? At what distance do i have to place it?

Currently my situation is like this:

  1. Sensor placed slightly offcenter so that the metal discs leaves the Field of view completely during a rotation.
  2. Distance to the surface ~1mm for the middle part, 2,5mm for the leds
  3. The indicator LED on the sensor is either completely off all the time (Potentionmeter turned all the way down), or completely on (Potentiometer turned very slightly.

It is therefore not picking up pulses at all.

Thank you very much for your help and happy new year.

ESPmonster commented 1 year ago

@hugokernel did you succeed in making a 3D printed case? Would love to reproduce

hugokernel commented 7 months ago

@hugokernel did you succeed in making a 3D printed case? Would love to reproduce

No, and in the meantime I've changed my meter, which is totally different.

hugokernel commented 7 months ago

@h4sk33r Have you found a way to place your sensor ?