Interface advice for connecting Arduino to Badger ADE Water Meter

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Jason

Hi,

Has anyone had any success interfacing with a Badger ADE water meter? The spec sheet tells me its a non-proprietary interface using ASCII.

It's got 3 accessible wires, possibly two data and one ground.

Any pointers or info greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
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scadametrics

Hi Jason,

You will need a bridge device to be able to read the the Badger ADE water meter register.

We manufacture such a device -- the EtherMeter -- which is an instrument that will auto-detect the ADE register, regularly poll the register, and then translate the totalization (the water meter reading) and flow-rate into standard industrial protocols.

Supported protocols include MODBUS(TCP/UDP/RTU/ASCII), DF1, and EtherNet/IP (Allen Bradley).

If your master (client) device does not yet support one of these protocols, I'd recommend adding a MODBUS stack to the device, since it will be the quickest/easiest to implement.

-Jim Mimlitz
SCADAmetrics
 
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