Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Leak Alarm

[Bob Duncan <katsurencho@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

   It's not my intent to lessen Radio Shack. They don't seem to have what they had 20 or so years ago. Everytime i go to Radio Shack i get a little fustrated !!  I use an electronics wholesaler  "Mouser"  i think they have a website  mouser.com. It isn't my intent to specificaly promote Mouser, there are others. I'm familiar with them.

  You can get just about any item at a lot lower price, and they have lots of stuff. In my projects i can buy enough to build 10 projects for the price of one from Radio Shack. I don't think Radio Shack is as orentied to homebuilders as they once were.

 

  Bob Duncan

 

"Dan H." <jmachine@adelphia.net> wrote:

Carl,
I'm sure there are better ods, but this $30 unit, battery and shipping
included, works fine. Why use five lasers in place of a $30 box, $10 worth
of Radio Shack stuff and a few wires. I have one box and it monitors all
five pods.

Lasers sounds like overkill, don't you think?

Thanks,
Dan H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Coalbunny"
To:
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Leak Alarm


> There are laser sensors that could help. When water leaks in, it
> disrupts the laser beam and sets off an alarm. Water can be crystal
> clear, and it'll still change the laser beam (diffraction).
> Carl
>
>
> Dan H. wrote:
>
> > Here's little unit I thought might be of interest to anyone building.
> >
> > I wanted to install something to detect any water leaking in to my
> > K-350's battery pods and the three thruster pods before it creates
> > a problem with operations.
> >
> > I fooled around with a few circuits but they were either to sensitive or
> > not sensitive enough. I came across this little unit on the net and
> > ordered it. It sells for around $30 including a nine volt battery and
> > shipping.
> > http://www.floodbusteronline.com/index.html
> >
> > I made my own sensors, which are no more then a piece of copper in each
> > pod, and ran wires to the unit in the hull where I can switch to "All
> > pods" or select each pod separately to determine where the leak is. The
> > only things I needed to add to the unit were a on/off switch, a selector
> > switch and a diode in the line from each pod.
> >
> > Cheap and it works well,
> > Dan H.
>
> --
> Spotted Owl...it's what's for dinner.
>
>

Fact is stranger than fiction. Truth is stronger than fact. R. Duncan

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