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Does anyone have an idea how you can measure water consumption at the water meter in belgium
Or has anyone a picture of the sensor on the water meter

the water meter belgium have no reflection plate
is is about water meter white 5 white numbers and 3 red numbers
bart

Hi , it's like the italian device. i think that you should find a new (digital flow meter) AFTER the official one . Lorenzo

this has a digital output : it works with many flow meters togheter , has wifi too.

http://www.aquatech-systems.eu/index.ph ... er-reading

Hello,

The most off us use one off this meters
http://www.gioanola.it/en/schede/limp.htm


Ed

Ed, how does it calculate the pulse from flow meter? with rfxcom?

@ Janseb,

I have the same meter as you have and you can measure the water usage.
There is a small black cover (not the one covering the numbers). Take it out and you have 2 holes. (I think I see it 1 cm to south west of the orange mark.)
Put a reed contact into one of the holes and you get a pulse every 0,5 liter.

I tried to find the original reed contact but it's hard to get. You might as well buy a really small reed contact from Conrad.
http://www.conrad.nl article 502036
It's not cheap but it's better than replacing the water meter.

good luck.

JayBee wrote:@ Janseb,

I have the same meter as you have and you can measure the water usage.
There is a small black cover (not the one covering the numbers). Take it out and you have 2 holes. (I think I see it 1 cm to south west of the orange mark.)
Put a reed contact into one of the holes and you get a pulse every 0,5 liter.

I tried to find the original reed contact but it's hard to get. You might as well buy a really small reed contact from Conrad.
http://www.conrad.nl article 502036
It's not cheap but it's better than replacing the water meter.

good luck.

I can confirm the above works fine.

regards, the other Jeroen

Hello,

The meters give a pulse for 1puls/liter
The have also a version for 0,5L/puls
In the RFXmeter you make a device RFXwater and voila its works


Ed

Thanks to everyone to help me

bart

jeroenkl wrote:

JayBee wrote: I have the same meter as you have and you can measure the water usage.
There is a small black cover (not the one covering the numbers). Take it out and you have 2 holes. (I think I see it 1 cm to south west of the orange mark.)
Put a reed contact into one of the holes and you get a pulse every 0,5 liter.

I tried to find the original reed contact but it's hard to get. You might as well buy a really small reed contact from Conrad.
http://www.conrad.nl article 502036
It's not cheap but it's better than replacing the water meter.

I can confirm the above works fine.

Jeroen(en), any pictures available so we can see how things fit together?

No picture available as I have some ducktape keeping the reed contact in place.
Just take the black cap off and you will see 2 holes. The rest was explained.

Drop me a PM if you want me to explain it to you by phone.

I have fond the hols to put in the readcontact it is on the right side of the red numbers

approximately half of the meter

I will try to make a picture this evening

bart

anoder option look on the photo i have indicated on the photo

mine is on the site of the red numbers dis photo is the old type of water meters

In my meter the 2 holes are right next to each other. One hole is for the reed contact and the other hole is used to fix the housing of the original reed contact.
However if you buy a normal reed contact (eg. from Conrad) you don't need the second hole.
You might have to test how deep to insert the reed contact by opening the watertap and measure if the contact opens and closes while water is running.

Attached 2 pictures of my setup.

JeroenKl