wmandra
10-25-2004, 08:57 PM
Hey all, I was just sitting here bored out of my mind and came up with a possible idea to automatically shutdown a PC in the event of a w/c system failure....
What about a system similar to the auto-shutdown used by uninterupted power supplies?? The idea would be to take an electronic flowmeter and temp sensor and place it in the w/c loop then connect both to some sort of microcontroller which could be connected to the PCs serial port for monitoring. Then just write a simple monitoring app where the user an set the limits could monitor the data on the serial port and shutdown the computer if these are exceeded.
If anyone has any interest in something like this please let me know, especially if they know something about microcontrollers... I could easily write the software part.
Bill
--Edit--
Here is a flowmeter that might do the trick: http://www.swissflow.com/html/800_5.htm
What about a system similar to the auto-shutdown used by uninterupted power supplies?? The idea would be to take an electronic flowmeter and temp sensor and place it in the w/c loop then connect both to some sort of microcontroller which could be connected to the PCs serial port for monitoring. Then just write a simple monitoring app where the user an set the limits could monitor the data on the serial port and shutdown the computer if these are exceeded.
If anyone has any interest in something like this please let me know, especially if they know something about microcontrollers... I could easily write the software part.
Bill
--Edit--
Here is a flowmeter that might do the trick: http://www.swissflow.com/html/800_5.htm