Water sensor?

[Slickdonkey]

I'd like to wire up several water sensors for various places in my fish room and hook them up to my AC3 Pro, which could sound the alarm. Has anyone done something similar to this? What type of sensors did you use? I figured I could run them all in parallel and have them close a relay or something when water is detected, then plug the relay into one of the external switch ports.

 

[clp]

Take a look at the waterbug sensor; it can be purchased here: http://www.smarthome.com/7160.HTML . The dry contact of the waterbug can hook to one of the AquaController's input pins.

Curt

 

[Slickdonkey]

Awesome, thanks Curt!

 

[cwegescheide]

I'd like to get one of those too!! So you also need a power supply for the waterbug? It looks like it from the website..

Edit: OK I just ordered all the goodies. Under carpet, extra sensors and power supply. If this thing interfaces easily with the Aqua Controller this is gonna be really sweet. I work away from home m-f and this would make me sleep better at night.

 

[Slickdonkey]

Man, I have so many of these little power supplies sitting around, I wonder if I have a 12 VAC one in the closet.

 

[jnarowe]

you can buy them on eBay cheaper.