Sunday, April 15, 2012

Requirements

Before I get too far down the road, I need to establish some high level specs.
The end product will:
  • measure incoming water temperature (EWT)
  • measure outgoing water temperature (OWT)
  • measure return air temperature
  • measure supply air temperature
  • measure supply humidity
  • measure outside temperature
  • log the data somewhere somehow
  • display the data on an LCD (of course)
It will be nice to have:
  • measure KWh usage for whole house 
  • measure KWh usage for HVAC
  • pulse monitor for water meter (have one sitting in the closet)
  • keep track of seconds the burner in the water heater is running
  • RTC for data tagging
Devices:
  • DS18S20 temperature sensor (few in the drawer)
  • PIC16C84 (if we cannot smash the code in there, we will buy a bigger one)
  • HSU-07 humidity sensor
  • 16x20 LCD (need a good cheap source)
  • Bluetooth serial module (these ain't the dark times with cables and stuff)
  • 433MHz wireless modules (just in case)
  • 74HC138 will slim down the 1-wire
  • Flame sensor - Cool!
Misc:
  • Google for data logging
  • DesignSpark for PCB creation (seriously, I tried Eagle and could not figure it out).

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