Dial-A-Level lives again

there is no alarm or control. Then the tank drops and the control turns on to replenish it. If it dries too much, you'll sound the alarm. And then it replenishes it and then when it's full, the control activates. If it is too full, the alarm sounds. And then, you can check any

level

. So that's basically what it is. You can also have it, if you change the bridge on the back, you can make it hollow. Then the pump will turn on when it is too high and turn off when it is too low. It basically does what I want.

I just have to convert it so I can do temperature control and have it read a thermistor instead of reading a capacitor, and it will work fine. And now comes the best part of the story. Look who responded to my email shortly after I fixed it. It's George, the inventor himself. That made my day. He went on to explain that he closed his company in 2017 and gave everything he had to Excess Solutions. We continue talking as we talk. I really hope I can meet him for a beer when the Covid episode is over! And now that I have George on the phone, I can ask him all kinds of questions, if I did it right.

And I almost did, but he tells me that in this model, you don't actually need the transformer or the magnetism of the transformer. It has been improved. This would be my center coax, one side of the cover, and this would be the inner coax. So this is much simpler, no transformer, just two wires to the cap. And let's see if George is right. And yes, it works just as well! So I complicated things for no reason. It's actually a pretty cool trick. So from your triax, there are only two leads connected to the probe; no, just a connector connected to the probe.

The other two are simply for protection. Alright. Well, thanks George, your Dial-A-Level works perfectly!