Aquarium projects, particularly leak detection

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There are a few off-the-shelf products out there that does leak detection. I did the DIY version though and I use it also for my aquarium.

Made a Water Leak Sensor

Hi, Just figured I would post the other thing I’ve made so far. I found this instructable through a friend at work: And bought a few of those door sensors from MonoPrice because they were relatively cheap at 24 bucks and they had the 3rd unused switch that was unused internally and had it’s own screw down block. So from there I did the following: drilled two small holes wrapped two lengths of bare wire double helix style down a length of nylon rope (so they never actually touch) zip tied both ends to keep the bare wire in place on the rope attached the two bare wires to each of the screw down terminals closed up the mono price door sensor, hot glued and duct taped it to make it water “proof” wrote a new device type based on the zwave water sensor (had to reverse some logic and chan…

I have 2 filters and 2 banks for lights connected to a zwave strip. The lights are on a schedule but not the filters. I do use a minimote for the filter so I can turn it off and automatically turn it back on after 10 minutes when feeding