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Waterwell (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by redlemace@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Any experiences with measuring the water level in a well? My well is less than 5 Meters deep and 20 Meters from the house (no electricity available (yet, but who knows)

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

that looks promising

Do you have experience with it? The well is just a 4.5 meter deep concrete tube of approximately 1 meter diameter with a concrete lid. Would echo have any effects?

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t think so. I haven’t built mine yet. JSN comes with a pretty long cable, so you could but just the probe in your well and keep ESP above ground to have Wi-Fi. You could battery power the ESP32 and use deep sleep to conserve battery (you don’t need to have probe reading every second or minute, right?). You could even try to use solar power to charge the battery. Possibilities are endless.

I’m going to try to mount a probe in a sewage tank - I have a few cables left leading to it. That means I don’t have to worry about power or Wi-Fi - Esp32 i going to be at home, the probe and its control board inter sewage tank.