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post #191 of 196
6/13/13 at 7:56pm
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I've always wanted some sort of manual pwm controller. It would be great for setting the pumps and not having to touch any other software. It would also be great for bleeding my loop. Its a pita with the pumps running at full bore.

I still think that the most important change for this controller would be so that you can control every channel off of a single temp sensor. Most people are running a single loop and only need one temp sensor in the water. Honestly, had it not been for this issue I would have bought one of these controllers by now.

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I still think that the most important change for this controller would be so that you can control every channel off of a single temp sensor. Most people are running a single loop and only need one temp sensor in the water. Honestly, had it not been for this issue I would have bought one of these controllers by now.

I agree, that would be nice.



And I just figured out how to run all the channels, or as many as you want from one sensor.


Spent the last few hours working on a little black box, well actually a piece of perfboard, and I have a working prototype.

There's a few tenths of a degree variation in the reading between some channels, but that's no big deal.


With my plans having changed about which builds get what controllers, and both of the CW611's going in the stretch build, I need to have 2 sensors control 2 channels each, so I started working on a way to do it.


Pics tomorrow,

Darlene
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post #192 of 196
6/14/13 at 2:08am
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And I just figured out how to run all the channels, or as many as you want from one sensor.


Spent the last few hours working on a little black box, well actually a piece of perfboard, and I have a working prototype.

There's a few tenths of a degree variation in the reading between some channels, but that's no big deal.


With my plans having changed about which builds get what controllers, and both of the CW611's going in the stretch build, I need to have 2 sensors control 2 channels each, so I started working on a way to do it.


Pics tomorrow,

Darlene

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post #193 of 196
6/14/13 at 2:21am
The sensor is on channel 1, with the other 5 channels run from my mystery board.


It helps that the 611 has the sensor inputs referenced to the PSU ground rail, so that using unity gain followers from the 1st sensor's voltage to feed each of the other inputs works quite well.

I'll be thinking up a way to make it a fairly easy DIY project with an easy way to set up different configurations with 1 or 2, or maybe up to 3 sensors.


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Edited by IT Diva - 6/14/13 at 2:38am
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post #194 of 196
6/14/13 at 5:33pm
Here's the PCB layout for the sensor expansion circuitry.

Essentially, to make it fairly universal, it's set up as 3 inputs, that each have both a pass thru and 3 additional outputs.

That gives the option of having up to 3 sensors controlling more than one channel.

Each single sensor on an input goes to one channel via the pass thru, and then, can connect to up to 3 more.


It's also possible to cascade one input to the next, so that a single sensor could go to 6 or even 9 channels plus the initial channel the pass thru has to connect to.


The size is 2" X 5.75", which would fit side to side in a bay behind the CW611 mounted on a piece of acrylic.




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6/14/13 at 5:38pm
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post #196 of 196
6/15/13 at 7:57pm
And PCB's ready to drill and populate: . . . thumb.gifthumb.gif

The 2 at the upper left are the sensor expansion boards.

The 2 in the middle are the tach signal translation boards for controllers with +12V rail referenced outputs.

Lower left is the piggy back boards for the manual PWM controller PCB's that allows the use of 2 push buttons; speed up / down, like the volume control on a TV remote instead of the potentiometer.

The 3 on the right are the newest PWM controller . . . I left the board on one a little longer, since that one goes to Martinm210 to use for pump & fan testing, and I haven't decided how to house it yet.


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