For hooking up to an arduino a belimo flow valve one example vendor only seems appropriately named.
Water flow control valve arduino.
In our project we connected the water flow sensor to a pipe.
Arduino water flow sensor working.
Most solenoid valves are not for continuous use.
Now this is not the only variable.
If you power the magnet with the expected current voltage the valve will open and the water will flow.
When current is flowing in the magnet it creates heat.
If the output valve of the pipe is closed the output of the water flow sensor is zero no pulses.
They take a 0 10 v input signal as control and will rotate the vale.
The controller i used in this example is or better say was a t14e model.
I installed the part on the top of the picture.
These are commercial type valves used to control water in heater systems and such.
Dc solenoid valves are available with 6v 12v 24v 120v 240v operating voltages.
Here circuit has a 12v dc solenoid and it is powered by an external supply.
For no normally open it is exactly the contrary.
Hardware setup to control a solenoid valve with arduino solenoids are very commonly used actuators in many process automation systems.
In this blog post i will show how to drive a water valve from a gardena water timer computer using arduino uno.
The keyword search is motorized flow control valve and that will find you many.
Arduino solenoid valve control circuit here shows the simple arrangement to interface a solenoid valve with arduino.
There are many types of solenoid for instance there are solenoid valves which can be used to open or close water or gas pipelines and there are solenoid plungers which are used to produce linear motion.
Main water entry is located on the bottom.
In this drawing the manual valve is opened and the motorized valve is therefore bypassed.