OPTIMALISATION THE USE OF HOUSEHOLD-SCALE WATER PUMP MACHINES WITH THE ARDUINO NANO v3.0 CONTROL SYSTEM

Abstract

The need of clean water keep increasing, therefore some energy sources that are classified in the renewed energies such as solar energy, wind energy, etc. This research is conducted to analyse usage of water pump engine by using the automatic switches of controller arduino nano v.3.0 and solar energy as the homebased scale pump actuator. The experimental research against the automatic switches usage and solar energy with battery photovoltaic (P-V) for water pump actuator electric energy generator is done in the Renewable Energy Laboratory at Mechanical Engineering Department of State university of Makassar. The result of research shows the sun intensity excelsior, hence battery generator output power PV obtained excelsior to also. Maximum current of PV is obtained at 13.35 Central Indonesia Time Zone (local time) 599 Watts. Current or generator output power PV obtained hardly having an effect on to performa pump and water debit yielded. Water debit yielded by pump at 08.00 until Pukul 16.00 is 0,8 Liter/minute. The controller system with this PV generator is able to deliver water to reservoir with head 3.5 meter.

Keywords

• Control
• water pumps
• photovoltaic cells
• energy sources