Hello,

In this blog, I would like to express the progress so far on the control system of suction pump which we are building.

On this fifth week of our internship, we are still trying to build the control system circuit of a suction pump which will control the overflow of the fluids into the machine. Two ways of doing it has been proposed, like the use of  infrared optical sensors and level sensors. As of now we are building two circuits, one for infrared optical sensor and the other for level sensor. The purpose of doing it is to choose the one with high performance.

 

One of the trial circuits for the infrared sensor

On other part of this project, we are in the process of brainstorming the designs where we can put our sensors on the suction pump. We have not chosen one yet because it will depend on the type sensors to be used. On Tuesday, I and Christina went to PAM (Physical Asset Management at Queen Elisabeth central hospital) to see if our designs will work on existing suction pumps.

Cape maclear

It was a wonderful weekend well spent at the cape maclear. Cape maclear is one of the beautiful beaches of lake Malawi.

Bye…