Water Level Indicator Circuit - JLCPCB

In this project, we are going to teach you making awesome electronics project ideas. The name of this project is water level indicator circuit using BC-547 transistor.

Water level indicator is a very useful circuit, that can helps you to reduce physical labor. This circuit will make your life more easy and save your time.

This circuit will automatically control your water tank and don’t waste a single drop of water.

The final circuit diagram and design can be seen below.

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Component List -

1. PCB

2. LED – 5mm

3. Resistor – 1 KΩ

4. Buzzer

5. Transistor – BC 547

6. Power Source – DC 12v

7. Soldering Iron

8. Cutting Plus

9. Water

The schematic of water level indicator circuit along with the PCB layout can be seen above. Here LED and buzzer used to watch and hear the signal of water level. Power supply don’t included with the circuit. You can use any DC 12v adapter or 12v battery.

We know that, there are two type of transistor. Every transistor contain 3 legs and this 3 legs have different names. Here BC547 is an NPN transistor and if we count it’s leg from left side, then 1st leg “Collector” 2nd leg “Collector” and 3rd leg “Emitter”

To make this water level indicator we are using 5mm LED lights. Here 5 led should be 5 different color. We connect all LED positive leg with DC 12v positive cable and connect LED negative cable with resistors.

We are using 1 KΩ resistor to make this circuit. We connect resistor one terminal with “Collector” leg of transistor and resistor other terminal with negative leg of LED lights.

For alert signal, we are using a buzzer. When the water tank will full, then the buzzer will make sound and let you know that the tank is almost full with water. We connect buzzer positive leg with LED positive leg and buzzer negative leg with resistor.

Now we connect transistor with the circuit. We connect 5 piece BC547 transistor with the circuit. We connect all transistor “Emitter” leg with negative leg of DC 12v power supply.

Our circuit is now ready for use.

Neat and perfect soldering is an important part of all kind of PCBs. Since soldering, you should remember that, there should not be any kind of short circuit. After soldering all leg, we cut-off the extra leg of all electronics component.

Our circuit, is now completely ready for use. Now we just connect power supply with the circuit.

Put every transistor “Base” leg inside water tank and check the circuit. Again thanks to JLCPCB for best quality PCBs.