Water Tank sensor - SOLVED

Hi All,

I have replaced the original diesel and water tanks sender sensors with new and more effective Philippi sensors. It was something I wanted to do for a long time as the original sensors were not working properly.
With the diesel sensor I had no problem; it was a plug and play trick as the original sensor was connected via a 2 wire (30 to 180 ohm) sensor as the philippi one.
With the water sensor instead I am having difficulties.
The original sensor was connected to the main switchboard through a 5 wire cable.
From the instruction manual of the DC Panel TEV0605 I read:

Coding Plug
The water level can be read over a 5-wire sensor or a 2 wire 3...180 ohm sensor. By default a 5-wire sensor is assumed. If the 100% value of the 5-wire sensor of the connector will be reconnected to the ground, is no longer the 5-wire sensor in use but the 2 wire 3... 180 ohm sensor. This accounts for both water sensors, independently from each other. Additionally, it is possible to completely configure water sensor out of the display and alarm handling (see 3 Configuration).

So I connected the philippi sensor to the white and the grey cable (see picture below)


On the other side of the cable, I have tried connecting it to the different slots of the main switchboard hoping to find the Water Tank one, with no luck.

I believe the connection is ok and the sensor works perfectly and the evidence of that is that if I use the second diesel tank slot the sensor is giving me the right reading (see picture below).

It would be nice to be able to reconfigure the DC Panel in order to replace the “Diesel 2” tag with “Water Tank”; does anyone know if this is at all possible?

Alternatively, does anyone know where the Water Tank slot is on the main switcboard and/or if I made some mistake in the connection?

Many thanks for your help!

Richz



Edited by richz - 02 February 2019 at 18:41

I might have found the answer to my question.
Enclosed is snapshot from the TEV 0605 panel where I have circled the section showing how the slots are displaced.
It also show that ground wire should be connected on the right plug where instead I have done the opposite.
Next time I am on board I will give it a try.

Still unsure about how the diesel 2 slot works ...

Thank you Frank,

My understanding is that I should connect the Philippi sensor to the 3-180 ohm slot dedicated to the water tank.
On the main switchboard there are two slot 1-5 pins and two slots 3-180 ohm.
I attach an enlarged picture to better explain myself.



I think I need to connect the two pins plug to the second last from the bottom.

As I said, I will give it a try the next time I am on board.
It it doesn’t work I will read the water tank sensor from the Diesel 2 slot as shown in my picture (unless someone knows how to program the DC Panel and change the description from “Diesel 2” to “water”.

Cheers

Richz

Hi

Hi Ariette,

They are produced by STOCKO and the model of the connector is RFK 2 MFK 13260, 2-pins.
I found them on eBay.
If you see from the diagram I posted above you should also be able to find the order of the different slots on the main board.
I have connected the two pins connector to the diesel 2 slot and it works perfectly.
I now want to try on the Water 1 slot by inverting the two wires in order to have the ground on the correct side and see if I am able to have it work also on the Water tank slot.

Cheers,

Richard