Using ESP to control pump speeds via PWM

Hardware Heatpump
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What is your experience with control flow for Wilo ? What hardware and protocol you used?

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I ordered the following from PiHut:

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Wired like this:

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I can’t find where I got the instructions to work that out but the PWM input to the pump is wired via the voltage level shifter to the PWM output.

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so it is controlled with 5V PWM ?

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m5stack has some nice PWM board for the atoms, m5-docs plug and play

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Yes my pump needs 5V high for the PWM input. The ESP32 PWM output is 3.3V (IIRC).

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Is yours UPM3 K 15-75 130? The pump?

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It’s a DUCA APE25-8-130

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I think those units are for actual power PWM outputs, not just control signals. Would probably still work, but it’s not required. Any PWM-capable GPIO will do the job. Even thouth the pumps might expect 5V PWM, they might still work with 3.3V signals. If not, any level shifter will do.

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Ah my bad, then a simple level shifter should do fine (if needed at all)

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Ours will need a level shifter:

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It requires 4-24V for PWM.

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Thanks for all the help. I got it working.

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Only just logged back in and saw this - glad someone else has helped you out :slight_smile: