NiChrome resistance wire
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Topic: NiChrome resistance wire
Posted By: bmac2
Subject: NiChrome resistance wire
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 6:27pm
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Does anyone by any chance in their electronics bins have some resistance wire, NiChrome (Nickel Chromium) or even platinum resistance wire. I need to build a probe for my arduino controller to monitor conductivity to determine salt concentration in myh aquarium. I only need 4 pieces of maybe 4 inches each? I can buy a 100 feet of it for not much on ebay, but had rather pay one of you a couple of bucks instead of buying a ton. Let me know please. OR, if you know some place locally that sells it. Mac ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |
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Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 7:53pm
| I have some I scabbed from a new hair dryer. I'll bring it tomorrow. if I remember. |
Posted By: bmac2
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 8:01pm
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so the wire in a hair dryer is nichrome? AWESOME!!! My wife is about to throw away a hair dryer. I will rob it!!! ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |
Posted By: bmac2
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 8:18pm
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is it the heating element wire? That is the only wire I see in the blow dryer that it could be. Thanks for the tip!!!! ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |
Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 10:19pm
| Yes the element. |
Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: January 01 2014 at 10:28pm
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You can use the element out of toasters too. I usually prefer the toaster ones as they are straight single wires unlike blow driers that usually have a coiled element that tends expand quite a bit when heated. ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
Posted By: bmac2
Date Posted: January 02 2014 at 9:27am
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cool, I got me a ton of wire from taht blowdryer that was being thrown away. I am set now. Thanks guys!!! ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |
Posted By: Krazie4Acans
Date Posted: January 02 2014 at 9:41am
You can use the switch and controls from the blow drier if they still work. That way you don't have to build the power box. You will have two heat settings and the fan is the part that usually goes out on a blow drier anyway. Krazie ------------- My ocean. 90g (yup, won it!), 40g, 28g, & 10g Systems PADI Advanced Open Water http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=63568&title=krazies-nano-paradise" rel="nofollow - Tank Thread: |
Posted By: bmac2
Date Posted: January 02 2014 at 9:47am
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I saved the controls for other things, I needed the wire to build an EC probe to monitor salinity. ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |
Posted By: Fatman
Date Posted: January 02 2014 at 9:51am
| I'd live to see your circuit diagram and sketch for thes salinty probe. |
Posted By: bmac2
Date Posted: January 02 2014 at 9:57am
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I have an aquarium shield for the arduino that has the EC circut on it. starting with the code that goes with the shield, it is the Macroduino code. Going to tweek it/ modify it to make it the way I want it. Going to push the data to a MySQL database when I get that far. still playing with different things and learning the arduino. The homemake ec probe is from the guy who made the shield for the Arduino. Here is the link to the video where he goes through building it. http://www.practicalmaker.com/ec/diy-ec-probe The shield comes from Practicalmaker.com. Here is the documentation on the aquaium shield. http://www.practicalmaker.com/documentation/arduarium-controller-ultimate-documentation ------------- Aquarium Creations 300 gallon tank Stand by Dion |