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09-23-2008, 11:13 AM | #1 |
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placing flowmeter ??
hello,
which is the best place to put a flowmeter ? and i mean on the return line to radiator or... ? thx, davy |
09-23-2008, 01:28 PM | #2 |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
Probably doesn't matter. In a closed loop I think it'd be impossible for one place to have flow greater than or less then another place but I could be wrong.
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09-24-2008, 06:49 AM | #3 |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
...you're not.
Different flows in different parts of a loop. LOL The best place to put one is on a bypass loop that you can valve into. Then when you don't meed the data you can get the (restrictive) flow meter out of the loop.
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09-24-2008, 03:58 PM | #4 |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
The question i got is it a actual flow meter that tells you flow rates or just a flow indicator that shows a wheel spinning? There seems to be some companies calling flow indicators flow meters.
For example: http://www.thermaltake.com/product/L...0/cl-w0080.asp That in my opinion is a flow indicator as it is not metering anything but they call it a meter... |
09-25-2008, 05:44 AM | #5 |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
this is the one i got. from what i can read in german, it actually reads te flow rate
http://www.aquatuning.de/product_inf...-Highflow.html |
09-25-2008, 06:29 AM | #6 | |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
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That's just half of what you would need. That device just generates a pulsed signal in which the pulses are proportional to the flow rate. You also need a device to convert the pulse rate into a flow rate and display it somehow. You can hook it to a monitored fan connector on a motherboard and it will read out the pulses as a fan speed. Then at least you'd have some data, all-be-it fan speed.
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09-25-2008, 11:15 AM | #7 |
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Re: placing flowmeter ??
and that's were i got this baby for :-)
Frontpanel Aqua Computer aquaero 4.00 VF-Display it can control 4 fans;and read the pulse signal of the flowmeter |
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