{"id":52,"date":"2012-05-04T12:55:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.harwoodfamily.id.au\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/hardware-pool-temp-sensor\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T05:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:17:41","slug":"hardware-pool-temp-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harwoodfamily.au\/index.php\/2012\/05\/04\/hardware-pool-temp-sensor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Pool Temp Sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pool Temperature Sensor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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My pool temperature sensor has been working reliably for almost five years now, so I thought it was worth showing how I made it. It’s a DS18S20 on the end of a piece of cat-5 cable.<\/p>\n

The sensor is fed down a length of \u00bc\u201d transparent plastic tube. This type of tube is used for wine-making, although I found it cheapest at my local boat shop. I formed a seal on one end by melting it inside a copper end-stop – the 15mm type used for plumbing. Hold the copper stop-end in a mole wrench and heat it gently on a gas hob, then gently feed the plastic tube into it. It takes a few minutes but the tube does eventually melt. When it\u2019s done, cool it in cold water and saw the copper end-stop off. You have a totally water-tight end-stop that will never come off or leak:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately you can only feed the cat-5 cable down about a metre of tube before friction prevents it going any further, but that was enough for me. I then sealed the cable into the tube with adhesive heat-shrink.<\/p>\n

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The sensor end sits in the skimmer. The tube turned white years ago, but it still works fine.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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