Water Sensor

Water Sensor

Water detection sensor is used to detect water leak, water level or rains. This is obtained by having a series of parallel wires exposed traces. The sensor traces have a weak pull-up resistor of 1 MΩ. The resistor will pull the sensor trace value high until a drop of water shorts the sensor trace to the grounded trace.

The analog signal output can be read directly to Arduino.

Water Sensor Specification

• Operating voltage: DC 3-5V
• Operating current: less than 20mA
• Sensor Type: Analog
• Detection Area: 40mm x 16mm
• Production process: FR4 double-sided HASL
• Operating temperature: 10’C-30’C
• Humidity: 10%-90% non-condensing
• Dimension: 60 x 19.5 x 2mm
• Weight: 3.5 g