Hello everyone,
I am working on a project and I ran out of ideas on how to implement one specific part. I am going to throw it here to get any help or ideas.
So I am trying to convey liquid (more specifically: ink) from a bottle to 4 different bottles via bundle of very thin tubes. Each tube has: ID(inner diameter)=0.5mm and OD(outer diameter)=1.5mm and is 1 foot long.
So It looks something like:
http://imgur.com/uRhQ4h3
As you can see there is bundle of tubes to carry the liquid. Each bundle will have somewhere around 40 to 50 tubes.
How can I approach this? is it feasible? Do I have to use some sort of pump? How can I connect these bundle of thin tubes to a pump?
Also I want to control the flow of ink to each bottle. What I mean is that I am NOT going to pump into all 4 bottles at the same time. For example, at a given time, I would like to pump into bottle 1 for 1 sec then stop it and then pump to bottle 3 for 2 sec and then stop it. So I thought I might have to use a microcontroller such as arduino to control 4 pumps, is this an efficient way of doing it? Or can I design a system that utilizes only one pump?
I have never used pumps before I need some guidance on how to approach this task.
Thanks in advance,
I am working on a project and I ran out of ideas on how to implement one specific part. I am going to throw it here to get any help or ideas.
So I am trying to convey liquid (more specifically: ink) from a bottle to 4 different bottles via bundle of very thin tubes. Each tube has: ID(inner diameter)=0.5mm and OD(outer diameter)=1.5mm and is 1 foot long.
So It looks something like:
http://imgur.com/uRhQ4h3
As you can see there is bundle of tubes to carry the liquid. Each bundle will have somewhere around 40 to 50 tubes.
How can I approach this? is it feasible? Do I have to use some sort of pump? How can I connect these bundle of thin tubes to a pump?
Also I want to control the flow of ink to each bottle. What I mean is that I am NOT going to pump into all 4 bottles at the same time. For example, at a given time, I would like to pump into bottle 1 for 1 sec then stop it and then pump to bottle 3 for 2 sec and then stop it. So I thought I might have to use a microcontroller such as arduino to control 4 pumps, is this an efficient way of doing it? Or can I design a system that utilizes only one pump?
I have never used pumps before I need some guidance on how to approach this task.
Thanks in advance,