Hi Guys
Have just finished my vegie garden irrigation installation...
I decided to use Gerry Dupreys Sprinkler controller and built a 10 zone version ....
http://www.rgbled.org/sprinkler/index.html
I wasnt looking forward to verboarding all components and decided to use a pcb for the pic micro and veroboard the solid state relays....Got the pcb from Futurelec , to get it to work i had to remove 3 resistors and cut one track...
http://www.futurlec.com/PIC16F877_Controller.shtml
After waiting approx 8 weeks for Futurelec to supply some solid state relays i decided to order some from a local company Ocean Controls...
http://www.oceancontrols.com.au/relays/ssr...tate_relays.htm
Built the controller and bench tested it and all worked fine...Next hurdle was the installation..
I ran the cables from the vegie garden controller to my water tank system and from there to my garden shed....The cable run would be quite long for a serial interface so i decided to install an 8 way switch in my water tank controller and connect it via a 10 pair cable in my garden shed back to the switch in humble node 0.....Spent the few days i had off over Christmas to connect the wiring ,valves etc and test....Connected the vegie garden controller to a MSS100 serial to ethernet device wrote some xPL Determinators and all was good...Did have to modify my water tank plc program to start the pump whenever the vegie garden pump solid state relay was active....I allowed the vegie garden controller priority over the other Modes ie harvesting , garden bed irrigation ....All thats left to do is to write a recurring event in xPL Manager so that the vegie patch gets irrigated every morning....Will probably modify my water tank plc program so that if the water level gets low it wont water the garden beds ...Would like to thank Gerry Duprey for making his sprinkler project available to the public and also for writing the xPL Plugin...
Here,s some pics of my install....
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z38/fra...n%20Controller/
Frank
Have just finished my vegie garden irrigation installation...
I decided to use Gerry Dupreys Sprinkler controller and built a 10 zone version ....
http://www.rgbled.org/sprinkler/index.html
I wasnt looking forward to verboarding all components and decided to use a pcb for the pic micro and veroboard the solid state relays....Got the pcb from Futurelec , to get it to work i had to remove 3 resistors and cut one track...
http://www.futurlec.com/PIC16F877_Controller.shtml
After waiting approx 8 weeks for Futurelec to supply some solid state relays i decided to order some from a local company Ocean Controls...
http://www.oceancontrols.com.au/relays/ssr...tate_relays.htm
Built the controller and bench tested it and all worked fine...Next hurdle was the installation..
I ran the cables from the vegie garden controller to my water tank system and from there to my garden shed....The cable run would be quite long for a serial interface so i decided to install an 8 way switch in my water tank controller and connect it via a 10 pair cable in my garden shed back to the switch in humble node 0.....Spent the few days i had off over Christmas to connect the wiring ,valves etc and test....Connected the vegie garden controller to a MSS100 serial to ethernet device wrote some xPL Determinators and all was good...Did have to modify my water tank plc program to start the pump whenever the vegie garden pump solid state relay was active....I allowed the vegie garden controller priority over the other Modes ie harvesting , garden bed irrigation ....All thats left to do is to write a recurring event in xPL Manager so that the vegie patch gets irrigated every morning....Will probably modify my water tank plc program so that if the water level gets low it wont water the garden beds ...Would like to thank Gerry Duprey for making his sprinkler project available to the public and also for writing the xPL Plugin...
Here,s some pics of my install....
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z38/fra...n%20Controller/
Frank
