placing flowmeter ??

[skyrookie]

hello,

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


thx,
davy

[ben333]

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.

[billbartuska]

Originally Posted by ben333

...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.

[jaydee]

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...

[skyrookie]

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

[billbartuska]

Originally Posted by skyrookie

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

Google translation

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.

[skyrookie]

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