Arduino Project - Engine Monitor System - Eric Patrick

[Eric Patrick]

This is my latest project that will move from prototype to a real system. This will be going on a boat to monitor engine surface temperatures on 6 or more locations. The sensors are good from -328 F to 2500 F. My plan is to locate them on the exhaust manifolds, the main block, heads, and by the out drive to monitor for excessive heat that would not show on the stock thermostat. Calibration code will need to be placed as well as some bench temperatures will need to be taken.

Parts Uses:

Arduino Mega

LCD Display
3 LED's

1 Buzzer

Thermocoules(soon!)

K-Type Thermostats(soon!)

The system will have a LCD display that will cycle through the zones displaying temps, and a status LED will give a quick look to make sure all is well. Im working on getting a buzzer in place as well to alert the captain if there is trouble.

Future plans would to be to get a gas detector for gas vapors in the engine compartment as well as a knock detector for bent or broken rods. Also I seen the GPS shields and im curious if I can post data out to a server to do live tracking.

I am still waiting on the thermocouple shield from adafruit. They have been sold out for while now. http://adafruit.com/products/269 But this is the only part of my puzzle that is missing. I will get the shield s) wired up and from there I will get a blank proto board and start to solder everything together.

I can post example code in here as well if anyone is interested. I'm going to see if there is a market for this at one point if I can prove out my theory on the boat!

[Eric Patrick]

Go figure...... 10 hours after I posted this the thermocouples came back in stock. Got my hands on 2 breakaway boards and 2 wires to test with.