BellSiphon

The idea behind this project came simply from the weather from my home state, Florida. As I was reading through a novel thinking about how to enter the contest on  Automation here on Instructables I was struck with the idea. I’m sure the storm outside pouring down rain was another major influence on the general topic. I knew that I wanted to do something with siphons, but the goal of the project had to be an automatic system. This led me to google where I tried to find the varying types of siphons that have been made and discovered something called a “Bell Siphon.” A bell siphon is a type of siphon that is typically used in hydroponic systems that is used to automate water levels in grow beds and cycle O2 in the soil. Of course the application of the bell siphon is not limited to these applications, but can be used in many other types of activities such as automate fluid transport and cycling.