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Borehole Water Tank - Remote Level Monitoring
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<blockquote data-quote="Alchad" data-source="post: 7603849" data-attributes="member: 143348"><p>Our borehole is near the house and pumps to a tank at a higher ground about 600 to 700 metres away and probably 70 metres higher in elevation, the water then flows back via the same pipe to feed house, barns and various troughs around the place, pump is on a time switch set to pump a 2 to 4 hours per day depending on time of year - we share the system with a neighbour and usage varies with the amount of stock on his land.</p><p></p><p>Occasionally I get the time setting wrong and the tank runs virtually dry with the only indication when the house tap pressure declines.</p><p></p><p>I'd like to install some form of remote level indication and have seen some online which send a wireless signal from say an ultrasonic sensor back to a monitor, but there are two problems, the main one being that there is no "line of sight" between the tank and the house, and the second problem is the distance involved which seems to be too far for the systems I've seen advertised.</p><p></p><p>A solution I've thought of would be to fit some sort of (solar powered) repeater for the wireless signal on an old telegraph pole I have which would be installed in one of the fields between the borehole and the tank and the additional height would allow the signal to be transferred. Problem is that despite looking I've not come across anything that would act as this intermediate receive/transmit station.</p><p></p><p>Bit of a long shot but just wondered if anyone had this problem and found a solution.</p><p></p><p>Comments welcome.</p><p></p><p>Alchad</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alchad, post: 7603849, member: 143348"] Our borehole is near the house and pumps to a tank at a higher ground about 600 to 700 metres away and probably 70 metres higher in elevation, the water then flows back via the same pipe to feed house, barns and various troughs around the place, pump is on a time switch set to pump a 2 to 4 hours per day depending on time of year - we share the system with a neighbour and usage varies with the amount of stock on his land. Occasionally I get the time setting wrong and the tank runs virtually dry with the only indication when the house tap pressure declines. I'd like to install some form of remote level indication and have seen some online which send a wireless signal from say an ultrasonic sensor back to a monitor, but there are two problems, the main one being that there is no "line of sight" between the tank and the house, and the second problem is the distance involved which seems to be too far for the systems I've seen advertised. A solution I've thought of would be to fit some sort of (solar powered) repeater for the wireless signal on an old telegraph pole I have which would be installed in one of the fields between the borehole and the tank and the additional height would allow the signal to be transferred. Problem is that despite looking I've not come across anything that would act as this intermediate receive/transmit station. Bit of a long shot but just wondered if anyone had this problem and found a solution. Comments welcome. Alchad [/QUOTE]
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