Best affordable flood sensor

[_ThaNerd_]

I am currently looking for the best/affordable flood sensor to add to my home-automation setup.

Wondering which one is the cheapest out there...

[rmasonjr]

Back when hobby-boards was around, they sold a small pcb board for water detection. Coupled with an X10 sensor, that was about as cheap as it got.
There are now Z-Wave detectors that are available and are somewhat pricey IMHO.

What is your home automation setup? Are you using X10, Z-Wave, etc?

[_ThaNerd_]

Good point forgot to mention my setup lol...

Did X10 way back when it all started, now I'm running zwave (no x10) and I also have a DSC alarm system which I saw also has its own flood sensors...

[cowinger]

I have a few each of the DSB45 and the ZSE30 on this page. They both work fine. The Zooz one is going to be sold until they are gone. They are identical to the Dome one.

https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/col.../water-sensors

[_ThaNerd_]

I have a few each of the DSB45 and the ZSE30 on this page. They both work fine. The Zooz one is going to be sold until they are gone. They are identical to the Dome one.

https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/col.../water-sensors

Do you ship to Canada?

[cowinger]

Their website says in the upper right hand corner that they do worldwide shipping.

[_ThaNerd_]

Their website says in the upper right hand corner that they do worldwide shipping.

Yup it does, but with the Canadian $ going to sh1ts low these days its too expensive...I've gotten better prices from Amazon.ca...been looking around, thing is there are lots of brands out there and the price range is huge.

[S-F]

Since you have a DSC panel the absolute cheapest solution is a wired flood sensor. https://www.alarmsystemstore.com/pro...water-detector For example.

[rmasonjr]

Good point forgot to mention my setup lol...

Did X10 way back when it all started, now I'm running zwave (no x10) and I also have a DSC alarm system which I saw also has its own flood sensors...

Since you have a DSC panel the absolute cheapest solution is a wired flood sensor. https://www.alarmsystemstore.com/pro...water-detector For example.

I'll echo S-F - install wired sensors wherever you can and wireless as a last resort.

[Pete]

+++ S-F and Rob relating to a wired sensor

I utilize a GRI 12VDC water sensor.

Its been years now and I do not recall how much I paid for it.

It is near the sump pump well and water heater (they are all in the same area). I mounted it / glued it to a brick.

I would test it occasionally and it worked fine.

This was plugged in to my OmniPro 2 panel. (4 wires).

GRI Industries

Here is a discussion from around 2009 on Cocoontech

Show me your flood sensor

and another one:

GRI water sensors

[randy]

I got tired of battery and other issues with my Z-Wave flood detectors. I went with three DiversiTech WS-1 "Wet Switch".



They are hardwired and once tripped, they require a manual reset, allowing you to see which one caused the alarm. They are HVAC items, so they are designed to be powered by 24VAC, which I have for all of my hydronic zone valves. I picked them up for about $25 each. They were initially interfaced to HomeSeer through an Arduino input, but I have since moved them to my security system as a 24-Hr water alarm so that they are monitored outside of HomeSeer. HomeSeer sees the alarm through Spud's EnvisaLink plug-in. Once one is tripped, the water supply is shut off by a KLD powered valve.

[Pete]

Here too use a KLD valve (CT group purchase a couple of years back). They are very well made.

[goldriver]

[deanrparry]

16 months that's low battery life even compared to some zwave (junk) would have expected 5+

[Pete]

Same short battery life span with Zigbee wireless sensors here. (IE: PIR, Door switch, water sensor, et al)

One test HAI wireless sensor connected to OmniPro wireless transceiver has gone over two years now without a change of battery. (experiment)