high speed counter

[birdy61]

I am in need for a counter for my bubblecounter in my beerbrewery.
Does anyone know if there is a IC that can do the counting ( 4 -10 bubbles/sec) for me, and which I can readout on a 5 minute frequency my raspberry bij an I2C port or so?

Thanks for the hint in advance

Birdy61

[boyoh]

You have got me beat, what is a bubble counter. What is the method you are using
To get your pulse in to the counter, the counter is no problem as long as it will get a pulse

Regards BoyOh

[joan]

You have got me beat, what is a bubble counter. What is the method you are using
To get your pulse in to the counter, the counter is no problem as long as it will get a pulse

Regards BoyOh

You are overthinking. A bubble counter counts bubbles. Probably bubbles of CO2 or H during the fermentation process.

[B.Goode]

I am in need for a counter for my bubblecounter in my beerbrewery.
Does anyone know if there is a IC that can do the counting ( 4 -10 bubbles/sec) for me, and which I can readout on a 5 minute frequency my raspberry bij an I2C port or so?

Thanks for the hint in advance

Birdy61

I don't have a direct answer, but the hint is that the Author/Developer/Maintainer of the widely adopted RPi.GPIO library is Head Brewer here - https://www.fuzzyduckbrewery.co.uk/

(My understanding is that the library was developed to support the use of RPi boards in the automation of the brewery. I don't know if bubble counters are involved.)

[birdy61]

Joan is right, during the beer production sugar is being transformed to alcohol and CO2.
The CO2 is coming out of the brewingvessel passing a sifon with water.
I want to use a IR-switch to produce the pulse.
From there I am not sure how to get the pulses into the Rpi.

My idea was to use a counter IC which can be connected to a I2C-port of my Rpi to readout the counter.
Does anyone know wich IC might be useful?

[joan]

If the pulses are 3V3 safe you can connect them to a Pi GPIO. Then use any GPIO library to count the pulses.

[birdy61]

If the pulses are 3V3 safe you can connect them to a Pi GPIO. Then use any GPIO library to count the pulses.

Thanks Joan,
But will the Rpi be able to catch every puls at 5/sec?
There are other applications running on the pi as well like monitoring temperature

[joan]

Yes. 5000 a second might start to give problems with Python, 50000 a second might start to give problems with C.

[birdy61]

Yes. 5000 a second might start to give problems with Python, 50000 a second might start to give problems with C.

actualy I'm a python nerd. Does C has better performance?

[joan]

C will give better performance for some applications. Remember Python is very modular and most of the modules will actually be written in C anyhow. I'd only start worrying if you actually have a problem.

[davidcoton]

actualy I'm a python nerd. Does C has better performance?

Yes. C is compiled to native machine code, while Python code is normally interpreted from source at run time.
As Joan says, it's unlikely to matter at 5 counts per second.