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Spray Application GROWNOTES™: Plumbing - mounting of flow meters

2 Mar 2017 · 0 min

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Short instructional video explaining best practices for mounting flow meters in spray-application plumbing. Speakers advise mounting the flow meter vertically and providing a straight inlet hose of roughly 10 times the hose/entry diameter so residue settles at the bottom and entrained air is less likely to affect flow readings.

Questions this video answers

In a vertical position.

Roughly 10 times the diameter of the entry.

It's ideal to.
Mount the flow meter in a vertical position.
And it's also.
Very important to have.
A reasonably.
Straight piece of hose going up to the flow meter roughly 10.
Times the diameter of the entry.
Point in length.
And there's two good.
Reasons for that. One is that if there's any residue left there, it.
It'Ll come down to the bottom of the hose. And another reason.
Is if there's any.
Air in the system, when the water liquid comes up.
In a column there, there's less likelihood of the air influencing.
The flow.
Meter reading.

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