A program created for a water testing module utilizing TDS and specialized electrode-based sensors to measure water parameters, and water usage
READ CAREFULLY To accurately sample stormwater runoff or residential plumbing lines without destroying your turbine or sensors with rocks and heavy debris: Do not mount the 3D-printed enclosure inline with a building's primary raw intake line. Instead, tee off the main line into a parallel branch (a bypass loop) using a simple manual shut-off valve. This allows you to easily pull out the box to clean the turbidity/chemical probes or the turbine without turning off the building's main water line. Post-Debris Filter Placement: Place your prototype enclosure immediately downstream of a mechanical mesh pre-filter, or print more coarse mesh as a pre-filter. Stormwater carries sediment that will jam a 3D-printed turbine blade or coat your ADC probes in mud, ruining calibration.
Printing When Printing Prototype enclosure, neutral colored PETG (Black or White) is the best option, as it is powerful, has give to prevent cracking due to impact or thermal expansion/compression, has heat resistance, and is much longer lasting (especially in the use cases of water) than common filaments like PLA
Other common use cases for this prototype include: On a fish tank for biological filtration, in a pond or lake, and other waterbodies.
Our prototype has app, wireless communication, and wireless alert capability to check water parameters coneviently, and also has wireless wifi-broadcasted alert capability to warn of immediatley dangerous water, or plumbing system flooding and freezing.