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DIY Arduino Water Meter

Posted December 2, 2011 by Chris

“At the heart of the exploration was a need to cheaply measure water from the tap. Water meters vary quite drastically in price. We settled on a $20 water meter used for PC cooling systems (the INS-FM17N by Koolance) due to its accuracy, low price, small size, and electronic sensing method that could be easily measured by a microcontroller (such as an Arduino).”

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