deckerscott
New Member
Hi there,
im new here so excuse me if this sounds a bit simple, i would like to measure how much water is in a small tank. I thought i could go about it in the same way a fuel gauge works, basically a float attached to an arm which is attached to a potentiometer. When the float moves up and down the potentiometer will turn and then i can read the different outputs and therefore know how much water is in my tank. The problem is that the potentiometers i have available are fairly hard to turn which means that the float will not be enough to overcome the friction. Does anyone know of a low friction potentiometer which could work or if you have any suggestions on how else i could do this that would be greatly appreciated,
thanks for your time,
Scott
im new here so excuse me if this sounds a bit simple, i would like to measure how much water is in a small tank. I thought i could go about it in the same way a fuel gauge works, basically a float attached to an arm which is attached to a potentiometer. When the float moves up and down the potentiometer will turn and then i can read the different outputs and therefore know how much water is in my tank. The problem is that the potentiometers i have available are fairly hard to turn which means that the float will not be enough to overcome the friction. Does anyone know of a low friction potentiometer which could work or if you have any suggestions on how else i could do this that would be greatly appreciated,
thanks for your time,
Scott