Hello?
Am not sure as to whether I should address Mr Jim Weir directly or even if this is the correct forum or if anyone else can help me with this. I am an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student in Kenya. I am doing a project on automated refueling systems especially for diesel generators while also remotely monitoring the fuel levels. It is basically an embedded system with a microcontroller and ideally would use level sensors. However am having problems acquiring such sensors due to cost and time constraints and while researching on how to build homemade level sensors i came across some articles Mr Weir had written back in the year 2000 on capacitive fuel gauges.The articles are available on this link, www.rst-engr.com/kitplanes/ under the title, capacitive fuel gauges. My question is, is it possible to use such a fuel gauge in place of level sensors and in place of the 0-5V gauge the output is instead fed to an Atmega32 Microcontroller whose maximum operating voltage is 6.0 Volts and maximum current for any of the pins is 20mA.
I was supposed to post the question in this section for Mr Weir and i dont know if I have done it correctly but any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Edwin.
Am not sure as to whether I should address Mr Jim Weir directly or even if this is the correct forum or if anyone else can help me with this. I am an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student in Kenya. I am doing a project on automated refueling systems especially for diesel generators while also remotely monitoring the fuel levels. It is basically an embedded system with a microcontroller and ideally would use level sensors. However am having problems acquiring such sensors due to cost and time constraints and while researching on how to build homemade level sensors i came across some articles Mr Weir had written back in the year 2000 on capacitive fuel gauges.The articles are available on this link, www.rst-engr.com/kitplanes/ under the title, capacitive fuel gauges. My question is, is it possible to use such a fuel gauge in place of level sensors and in place of the 0-5V gauge the output is instead fed to an Atmega32 Microcontroller whose maximum operating voltage is 6.0 Volts and maximum current for any of the pins is 20mA.
I was supposed to post the question in this section for Mr Weir and i dont know if I have done it correctly but any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Edwin.