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Unread 09-23-2008, 11:13 AM   #1
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hello,

which is the best place to put a flowmeter ? and i mean on the return line to radiator or... ?


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Unread 09-23-2008, 01:28 PM   #2
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Default 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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Unread 09-24-2008, 06:49 AM   #3
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...but I could be wrong.
...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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Default 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...
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Unread 09-25-2008, 05:44 AM   #5
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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
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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
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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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Unread 09-25-2008, 11:15 AM   #7
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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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