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== Why? ==
== Why? ==


Sometimes the need arises to temporarily shut off our forced air intake fan. In the past we simply pulled the plug on the motor, but this naturally leads to people forgetting all about it until someone notices notices an uptick in CO2 concentration, often days hence. This box of plastic is meant to remedy that problem. When the fan has to be turned off for whatever reason you can simply press a button on the controller to select a desired off time. Once the countdown completes it will just start the fan back up, no fuss.
Sometimes the need arises to temporarily shut off our forced air intake fan. In the past we simply pulled the plug on the motor, but this naturally leads to people forgetting all about it until someone notices notices an uptick in CO2 concentration, often days hence. This box of plastic is meant to remedy that problem. Pressing the button will shut off the fan and set a counter. Another press will add more time to the counter. Once the countdown completes it will just start the fan back up, no fuss.


== How? ==
== How? ==

Revision as of 16:28, 7 January 2019


Project Intake Fan Controller
Intakefancontroller.jpg
Simple fan controller for switching our forced air intake.
Status In progress
Contact thomas
Last Update 2019-01-07

Why?

Sometimes the need arises to temporarily shut off our forced air intake fan. In the past we simply pulled the plug on the motor, but this naturally leads to people forgetting all about it until someone notices notices an uptick in CO2 concentration, often days hence. This box of plastic is meant to remedy that problem. Pressing the button will shut off the fan and set a counter. Another press will add more time to the counter. Once the countdown completes it will just start the fan back up, no fuss.

How?

To turn the fan off, press the button labeled 'UIT'. Upon first press it will set a delay of 15 minutes, and each successive press adds another 15 minutes to the clock (up to a maximum off-time of 2 hours).

If you want to reset the timer and/or turn the fan back on before the delay has elapsed, just press the 'AAN' button.

What's in the box?

An arduino nano reads the buttons, drives the display, and switches a bistable relay. It also pulls a pin high when the fan is on, which is routed to a nodemcu used for interfacing with revspace MQTT (work in progress).

Links

https://github.com/revspace/intakefancontroller