Automatic Water Level Controller With Indicator Project

 

Automatic water level controller for submersible motor 

Introduction

This Project Is Very Useful, Interesting, And Very Effective. This Automatic Water Pump Controller With Three Stage Level Indicator Provides the Visual And Attractive LED Indication As Level Of the Water in Water Tank. When Tank is Full Then Motor Stops Automatically, In This Circuit No Use Of Any Timer IC.

• This is an Automatic submersible Motor controller

•  The Main Advantage Of This Project Is To All Three LEDs Are Glowing One by One. Only One LED is Glowing At One Level And the Other Two Are in Off State.

Schematic diagram

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Construction

In This Project No Need Of Any Capacitor, No Timer IC.  A Voltage Regulator IC LM7809, Some Resistors and Some NPN Transistors, Diode, LED, and a Relay are used In This Circuit.

Connect All Components As Shown In the Image Diagram. The Value Of Resistors Are Should Not More Than 2kΩ.  And Not Less Than 1kΩ. R8 And R9 Should Not be More Than 100 Ω. If All Values Are the Same As I recommend, Then Circuit Working Will be 100% Successful.

Arrange The One Wire Which Is Connected to VCC from More Than Half Level (Not Necessary To Fix The VCC wire From the Bottom). Second Wire Connect The Half Middle Of the Tank Or the Lower Than Half. And Third Wire Is Fix to Top Side Where You Want as a Requirement.

Working

First stage

At First When There Is No Water In-Tank. This is the time to start the motor. LED 1 is Glowing, And the Relay Is Activated. So the Power to the motor is ON. Only LED 1 will glow until the water Level is About To Reach the Half Of the Tank. When the level of water has reached half the level and touches the middle wire of the tank, then the current from the VCC supply through the water goes to the BASE terminal of transistor Q1 and this will turn ON.

Transistor Q1 is connected as NOT Logic Circuit, So When the input of this on the base is +ve (ON) then the output at COLLECTOR Terminal Will be LOW (OFF), In this Case only LED 2 is now glowing And LED 1 is getting OFF.

The transistor Q5 remains ON State, which keeps Stay Relay Activated and the motor gets power.

Second and Third Stages

Now water is reached More than half and the middle and wire is sunk in the water, Only LED 2 Is glowing and all are OFF

At The Time Of When Water Reached To The Upper Wire And Touched That. As The Water Is Touched The Upper-Level Wire And Current At the Base Of Q3 is Getting Supply.  Transistor Q3 in ON and LED 3 will Glow And On That Exact Time Transistor Q5 Will Get Turned OFF Because Transistor Q3 And Q5 Are in Connected As Inverter Logic(Not GATE) Which Make The Output At Collector of Q3 is LOW, the Base Of Q5 In LOW input and Q5 Turned Off. This is The Reason For Relay to Deactivate When the Tank Is Full. All Emitter Terminals of Transistors Is Grounded(-ve supply). 

The Purpose of the LM7809 voltage regulator in this Circuit is to Divide The Supply Into Two Sections. One Is For the Relay, and the Other is for the whole Circuit. If the LM7809 regulator is not connected, then The Maximum Power is consumed by the Relay and the LED does not flow in a Proper way.

Carefully Connect Terminals Of Transistors And Voltage Regulator ic LM7809. The relay Must Be More Than 20A. 

If Q5 BC547 gets burned or hotter, then You Can Use 2N2222. 

You Can Use Tricolor LED in Place of 3 Different LEDs. But only Common Cathode Tricolor LED. This LED Makes its Different Look.

2nd Schematic diagram

(suitable for both Motor- Submersible and Non-submersible)

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3rd Schematic diagram

Part list of 3rd schematic

Resistors

10K-2,  1.5K-8

Diode – 2

555Timer ic -1

Transistor BC547-5, 2N2222-1

Relay- 12v 20A

Must Watch Demo Video.

Video is of 1st circuit

Simulation video of 3rd circuit

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The power supply must be 12 v DC.  If the Power Supply Is LESS than 12v on pin 1 of 7809, then the circuit may not work correctly.

Components

Resistor 

 1.5K- 9

 100 ohm-2 (optional)

Transistor

 BC547 -5

 Diode

 1N4007-2

 LED-3  Or Tricolor LED-1

 Relay

 12v 20A-1

 Voltage Regulator IC

 LM7809-1

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PCB layout of 1st circuit

download Actul size printable image of PCB Layout

Download Gerber File

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