Hello all, this is my first post, and I hope I am posting in the right place so bare with me.
I am a tinkerer, a hobbyist, what some people would call a techno-hack, I have of limited electronic knowledge, welding. I am working on building an Areoponics system. This is not for a class project, this is for a home project which has larger implications if I can get it working correctly.
I am building myself an Areoponic system in where I can have a small garden on my deck (veggies, etc), without the worry of dirt, and other attributes.
I have run through the basics, I have a watering system built, but what I need to do is build is a timer that will activate and deactivate between specific times.
What I'd like to see is two separate sections that allows the activation timer to be set manually at first, in where it can be set between 5 minutes to 30 seconds, and the second control for the time of the spray between 5 seconds up to 15 seconds.
My wish is to make it smart, so if the temperature increases or decreases the spray changes accordingly. Colder out the longer the spray has to activate, and the shorter it is activated for, to where it is hot and it sprays more frequently and for longer periods of time.
This would be attached to a standard water pump, at least for now one that is attached to a fish tank, so something that can be as small for a 5 gallon tank, to something as large as a 100+ gallon tank.
If someone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to do it myself, at least to draw out a schematic yet...
Thanks in advance.
I am a tinkerer, a hobbyist, what some people would call a techno-hack, I have of limited electronic knowledge, welding. I am working on building an Areoponics system. This is not for a class project, this is for a home project which has larger implications if I can get it working correctly.
I am building myself an Areoponic system in where I can have a small garden on my deck (veggies, etc), without the worry of dirt, and other attributes.
I have run through the basics, I have a watering system built, but what I need to do is build is a timer that will activate and deactivate between specific times.
What I'd like to see is two separate sections that allows the activation timer to be set manually at first, in where it can be set between 5 minutes to 30 seconds, and the second control for the time of the spray between 5 seconds up to 15 seconds.
My wish is to make it smart, so if the temperature increases or decreases the spray changes accordingly. Colder out the longer the spray has to activate, and the shorter it is activated for, to where it is hot and it sprays more frequently and for longer periods of time.
This would be attached to a standard water pump, at least for now one that is attached to a fish tank, so something that can be as small for a 5 gallon tank, to something as large as a 100+ gallon tank.
If someone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated, I know enough to be dangerous, but not enough to do it myself, at least to draw out a schematic yet...
Thanks in advance.