Grove system fitted FASCU

Awesome open design that simply plug and plays!
http://www.fire-site.net/apps/blog/show/12754706-grove-system-fitted-fascu

Waste oil burner and controls website - Fire-Site.Net

Waste oil burner and controls website - Fire-Site.Net

DIY Waste oil Burner and Electronic Controls Project site!

Grove connections - Fire-Site.Net

GROVE System is a modular, safe and easy to use group of items that allow you to minimise the effort required to get started with microcontroller-based experimentation and learning. Although there are many choices available for microcontroller development environments, the Grove system will work very well with the Arduino

GROVE System is a modular, safe and easy to use group of items that allow you to minimise the effort required to get started with microcontroller-based experimentation and learning. Although there are many choices available for microcontroller development environments, the Grove system will work very well with the Arduino

Grove connections - Fire-Site.Net

Each "Grove unit" is a peripheral board that connects to the Grove System Grove - Base shield using a consistent 4-wire connectorised cable. The connector leads are Ground, Vcc, D2, and D1, where the D1 and D2 leads may be digital or analog input or output, depending on the equipment on the Groves.

FASCU 2 Goals - Fire-Site.Net

FASCU 2 Goals - Fire-Site.Net

Fascu 2 Using a simple Button LED Module as a stove control panel. One or two Peristaltic pumps and a potentiometer or three... Solenoid valves, Motor Control, Thermostat, Sensors etc. are all programmable!

The ignighter is activated causing a spark to arc inside the burner, the propane solenoid valve opens and the burner lights! Now FASCU monitors the ignighted burner and turns off the ignighter once a stable flame is detected. Once the burner is hot enough, the peristaltic oil pump is started. FASCU switches off (closes) the propane solenoid and opens the air solenoid along with activating the mini air compressor.

Steam is a more advanced topic, for now FASCU will not be automating the steam atomization switch over nor monitoring steam. In the future it would be very interesting to monitor and control feed water and steam out pressure, as well as aux steam out. Aux steam out may be for several possible uses, one might just dump some steam as required to provide humidity. A steam babington humidifier would be a wonderful humidifier. Micro-steam turbine electric generator or tiny steam engine electric generator might be worth experimenting with. Thermo-electric modules cooled by feed water hmm lots of future features are possible.