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Review on Gravity Analog Electrical Conductivity Sensor by Jathan Louis

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Really fun kit with high quality electrode

EC sensor in this high quality kit. You need to make sure the tip is glass. Inside the glass tip is a loop with two square electrodes between the inner parts. The electrode is supplied with a screw top sample cup and a rubber boot on top into which the electrode is inserted. I personally don't use the cup that comes with the kit. I powered this board with 3.3v from an ADS1115 pi hat installed on a raspberry pi. This model showed better results compared to the CQRobot TDS sensor. I was able to plot a curve that is reasonably accurate for my use by reading the RO/DI output drop by drop compared to a real conductivity meter. Using this curve along with scipy.interpolate.interp1d I was able to more accurately read the EC of water anywhere from zero to 5 km. It's worth it.

Pros
  • meter
Cons
  • expensive