My name is Taj. I have zero electronics experience. I am hoping a generous soul will help me with what appears to be a simple application.
We have a 40 thousand gallon reservoir underground, at the top of our 70 acre property. We would like to be able to get a sense of how much water is in the tank without walking up there and looking inside. I have looked at many applications and the one I am hoping to employ appears to be the simplest. "which is all we really need".
I want to connect three of these mercury activated float switches http://tgwastewater.com/sje-rhombus-sensor-float-mini-sump-pump-switch-submersible to a pvc pipe and submerge them inside the reservoir. When the reservoir is full, all three mercury float switches would power three individual led lights pieces. As the level goes down the switches would fall and go the "open" position in order, thus turning off one, two or all three lights depending on how many switches drop because of the water level. This would allow us to determine if the tank is mostly full, half full or almost empty.
Here is where I need help. I have no idea how I would wire such a thing.
Can someone please tell me like I am a 10 year old, how to tie in the floats to the transformer to the lights? Like, I cannot visualize how I would do that. Thanks so much in advance.
We have a 40 thousand gallon reservoir underground, at the top of our 70 acre property. We would like to be able to get a sense of how much water is in the tank without walking up there and looking inside. I have looked at many applications and the one I am hoping to employ appears to be the simplest. "which is all we really need".
I want to connect three of these mercury activated float switches http://tgwastewater.com/sje-rhombus-sensor-float-mini-sump-pump-switch-submersible to a pvc pipe and submerge them inside the reservoir. When the reservoir is full, all three mercury float switches would power three individual led lights pieces. As the level goes down the switches would fall and go the "open" position in order, thus turning off one, two or all three lights depending on how many switches drop because of the water level. This would allow us to determine if the tank is mostly full, half full or almost empty.
Here is where I need help. I have no idea how I would wire such a thing.
Can someone please tell me like I am a 10 year old, how to tie in the floats to the transformer to the lights? Like, I cannot visualize how I would do that. Thanks so much in advance.