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PROJECT REPORT
Water Level Indicator

WATER LEVEL INDICATOR

This project is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
JETKING CERTIFIED HARDWARE & NETWORKING PROFESSIONAL

Project Guide
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the following student
Has successfully completed the project titled

Water Level Indicator

As

partial fulfillment for the award of

JETKING CERTIFIED HARDWARE & NETWORKING PROFESSIONAL

Certified by:
Project Guide

Centre Manager

Acknowledgement
It is with pleasure that I find myself penning down these lines to express our
sincere thanks to various people to help us along the way in completing this
project of Water level Indicator.
I must express my deepest appreciation to
.as our project guide who really provided me with the required
information for this project and without her help this project would not have
been completed. We are also thankful to our parents who helped us in doing this
project.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Circuit Description
Parts Description
Working
Parts list
References
Cost And Application

INTRODUCTION

To understand the concept of computer hardware the knowledge of electronics is must. The project
that I have chosen for understanding the concept of electronics is a water level indicator. Apart from begin
exposed towards the working of the various parts of the electronics systems, the project has the significance
that it can be used to detect the rain.

The water level indicator works on the dc voltage. The main part of the circuit is the IC 40106.
Whenever the water level reaches at particular level the circuit of the IC 40106 gets completed and the IC
produces the pulses. The output is displayed by glowing LED

CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION

The Water level Indicator circuit consists of three main sections:

Supply section
Sensor section
Display section

Supply Section

The supply section consists of a 3V battery voltage.

Instead one can also use a step down transformer which converts 220 V ac to 3 V ac. followed by a rectifier
diode, which converts ac to rippled dc.

Sensor section
This section consists of a PCB with two resistors of 180K ohm. The PCB plate act as a sensor.

DISPLAY section

PARTS DETAIL
Resistance: Resistance is the property of the material by which it opposes the flow of current .The unit of
resistance is ohms. The circuit uses 5 carbon composition resistances whose value can be found using the
color coding.

Capacitor:- Capacitor has ability to store charge and release them at a later time. Capacitance is the
measure of the amount of charge that a capacitor can store for a given applied voltage. The unit of
capacitance is the farad (F) or microfarad. The capacitors used in the circuit is an electrolytic capacitor. The
value and voltage rating of the electrolytic capacitor can be directly read from the capacitor itself.

1000 f
10 V

Capacitance
Voltage rating

The electrolytic capacitor should be used with proper polarity.

In the circuit the electrolytic capacitor is used as a bypass capacitor. Any noise variation in the circuit is
removed by the capacitor.

Printed circuit board:

The printed circuit board is a sheet of insulating material (bakelite) on which a copper clad coating is done.
The circuit is being printed on the PCB. The circuit uses two PCBs. On one PCB there is detector circuit.
Other PCB consists of the copper strips for sensing the level of the water.

CD 40106
The level of the water is being sensed by an Integrated circuit (CD 40106).
The IC 40106 is a 14 pin integrated circuit. When the water reaches a particular level the strip gets shorted
with the ground strip. The pins 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13 gets low signal corresponding to the six levels. The IC gets
a low signal and the gives output on the corresponding LED by glowing it.

L.E.D.(Light emitting diode):

Light emitting components are the components which

produce light when they are subjected to the an electrical current or voltage.

WORKING

PARTS LIST
S.NO.

Parts list

Value

1.

Capacitor :C 1

22 micro F

2.

Resistances

R1 to R6

3.

Sensor IC

CD 40106

4.

Resistances

R7 to R13

5.

LEDs

L1 to L7

REFERENCES:

COST AND APPLICATION

The project of mine is very useful. One can use in daily life. One can install it in his or her house as
Water level Indicator or it can be used as a water level indicator. This project of mine, being compact, can be
installed anywhere. This is also very cheap at cost.