Buzz / page me since I might not be home. Luckily I don't have any pets, it's just me, the wife and the baby. She'll hopefully check the buzzing, and he won't mind.

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Eric

On Aug 18, 2012 10:22 PM, "Tim Keller" <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:
What you're looking for is called a "waterbug"

It has a pair of dry contacts that close a circuit when it gets wet.
you could set up an arduino, or just wire it to a buzzer.

On 8/18/12, Eric Martin <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I had a close call with my hot water heater this afternoon.  I heard on odd
> noise in the pipes and it turned out that my hot water heater was dumping
> water out of the overflow valve.  Luckily, I found it quick enough, and I'm
> pretty sure I got it handled for < $150.  There's a 1 Gal bucket under the
> overflow valve, and if I had a water level detector emailing me that water
> is in the bucket, I could have caught this earlier.
>
> I was looking at buying an Arduino and setting up a simple circuit.  I know
> a few people have played with Arduinos, any suggestions on which one to get
> and how to go about it?  I don't need to know how much water is in the
> bucket, I was thinking about a float type device or even two wires that
> trip a relay.  I just want a heads up that water is in the bucket so I can
> stop before my basement floods.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Eric Martin
>

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