I have been working on my sump pump alarm.
The original alarm box was not loud enough to be heard upstairs, so I had added a louder alarm using a fire alarm bell.
Remember this?
Well I have added some enhancements. Look at this.
I added an on/off switch to make it not ring ever, and a test button switch to make it ring any time I want it to. When it is ringing, I can turn it off without having to unplug anything. And I can make sure that it all works any time I want to by pushing the test button.
Pretty neat.
Oh, and hey, if you think that is cool, look at this!
The bell didn’t seem loud enough either, so I added a new device with a klaxon horn that I can hook up instead. It also has an on/off switch and a test button.
Cool, hunh?
But then, the klaxon wasn’t loud enough either, so I build a relay panel so that I can trigger all of the alarms at the same time.
It has four relays, an on/off switch, a test button, and some really creative wiring. I like the orange wire nuts.
The relay panel is the best!
And…. last but not least, here is the whole setup wired together.
It makes a heck of a racket.
So, DG, what do you think?
Is this cool, or what?
Wanna hear it go off?
Hello?
DG?
DG?
Hmmm. I wonder where he has got off to now.