Noggin
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I have an idea for a project I'd like to build and I need a quiet low volume water pump. I have a friend that just went to college and she has a dehumidifyer in her room, and it fills with water every few hours and she has to empty it manually. So I had the idea to automatically detect the water and pump it out.
I first purchased a pump for an aquarium, but it doesn't seem to work well at all. I couldn't get it to pump water up a 6 inch tube, and this pump will need to raise a small column of water as much as 4 feet. I then thought that maybe a water pump for a liquid cooled PC would work, a quick look on newegg makes it look like I'm going to end up spending a few hundred bucks if I go that route.
Anyone have any ideas on where I can get a low volume pump? And I guess while I'm at it, I should ask if anyone has any ideas on how to detect distilled water reliably too
I was thinking a floater switch would be best, I'm not even sure how deep the water pan is yet.
I first purchased a pump for an aquarium, but it doesn't seem to work well at all. I couldn't get it to pump water up a 6 inch tube, and this pump will need to raise a small column of water as much as 4 feet. I then thought that maybe a water pump for a liquid cooled PC would work, a quick look on newegg makes it look like I'm going to end up spending a few hundred bucks if I go that route.
Anyone have any ideas on where I can get a low volume pump? And I guess while I'm at it, I should ask if anyone has any ideas on how to detect distilled water reliably too