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I am making the automatic water controller using Arduino and Ultrasonic Distance Sensors. My prototype is almost ready. But I have a doubt that if I put the sensors on lid of the water tanks, water vapours might cause some problem or could damage the sensor after a few months. Or if by some way water touches the lid it might also damage it. So how to prevent it?
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Your code seems to be correct, I could use it with my Duemilanove and Parallax Ping. Are the wires of the Ping correctly connected? 5 V to 5 Volt, GND to ground and SNG to Pin 7?
The problem with hobby related solutions is documentation is limited and not spec'd like commercial components or modules.
It is possible that it may work but make a block wiring diagram and consult with the OEM is advised. Mind you I don't know if they have adequate support for your question as these are built in China.
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It appears that your ultrasonic load is TTL so there is no problem switching 5 at the same time with a BEC, but I wonder if you have considered the effects of crosstalk on firing all at the same time. They indicate a 15deg detection angle but this would depend on the reflection angle of objects you wish to detect. There may be phasing issues with reflection cancellations like having 5 tweeters directed in a room. Reading the response of each echo in parallel with a time interval count won't be a simple textbook result with non-smooth objects with 5 senders.
YOu can test your orthogonal array design with any signal pulse generator and look at the signal on a parallel port logic analyzer or scope to ensure what you are design will work.
Power drive is the least of your concerns from these low power devices. Noise avoidance from conducted and radiated sources will be paramount and design of the transponder array must come first. I would spend some time on testing this part 1st to identify all the electrical, physical, acoustic, EMI, thermal, vibration both conducted and radiated sources of interference and how each affects your SONAR expectations with different objects. Will it be microphonic with vibration or loud pulse noises. How well does it reject other ultrasound sources of noise? Will the TTL Echo output change in pulse width with signal strength or just the delay time.
Will you get echos from the wrong sender due to corner refection effects.
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Simple, by using sealed ultrasonic sensors.