How Are Water Pumps controlled?
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Well, that would be the crude yet effective way a lot of guys do it; the pump turns on, putting water through a nozzle. Some guys have solenoids that open up multiple nozzles according to boost readings.
But according to literature from Snow (page 11), they have a black box where you enter in a boost value where it starts spraying and a boost level where it stops spraying, and then the box will somehow tell the pump to gradually increase the amount sprayed between those values. They say that it affects the "injection pressure" of the pump.
I would like to know what the output of the black box is, so that I could figure out how to control it via laptop.
EDIT: Alright, Snow replied via email and said that the pump has an integrated PWM; so the pump's pressure remains constant, but it turns on and off really really fast. And the signal from the black box, which I assume would be voltage, tells it how fast to pulse.
I would just ask them what the signal parameters out of the black box are, but they might not reply... Ahh, what do I have to loose?
But according to literature from Snow (page 11), they have a black box where you enter in a boost value where it starts spraying and a boost level where it stops spraying, and then the box will somehow tell the pump to gradually increase the amount sprayed between those values. They say that it affects the "injection pressure" of the pump.
I would like to know what the output of the black box is, so that I could figure out how to control it via laptop.
EDIT: Alright, Snow replied via email and said that the pump has an integrated PWM; so the pump's pressure remains constant, but it turns on and off really really fast. And the signal from the black box, which I assume would be voltage, tells it how fast to pulse.
I would just ask them what the signal parameters out of the black box are, but they might not reply... Ahh, what do I have to loose?
Last edited by Begle1; 06-11-2007 at 05:38 PM.
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