Finally got around to making coolant flow "sensors". (Used existing 3/4" cu pipe with wells for temperature sensors. Maybe a bad idea because of the restriction may not make it true 0.75" ID.)
Trying to calibrate pressure sensors.
Have a hose with water. Connect to vacuum and pressure ports of sensor when water is level. When I raise one end of the hose to get a 20" difference between the two water levels, is that 10" or 20" H2O?
Yesterday I filled a 5 gal bucket through the sensors, timing it to 9 gal/min. Pressure readout indicated what I had previously gotten as 35.25" H2O.
Something is obviously wrong. Perhaps the 35.25" H2O was really half of that?
Moving on. Trying to make a formula to convert inH2O to Gal/min.
hw (in H2O) = 0.186 (v
fpm / 60)
2� � where v
fpm = velocity (ft/min).
Vfpm = 60 * Sqrt(Hw / 0.186)
231 cuIn / gallon.
Area of 3/4" pipe: 0.44 sq in.
231/0.44 = 525" or 44 feet/min for 1 Gal/min flow.
So gal/min = 60 * Sqrt(Hw / 0.186) / 44
60 * Sqrt(20" / 0.186) / 44 ~ 13.6 gal/min. Close to Steve's 16 gal/min through 0.8" pipe.
Anyone seeing a mistake here?
Need to repeat my filling 5 gal bucket through sensors test, but need to get my pressure sensor calibration right first.
Finn
On 8/21/2021 12:15 PM, Steven W. Boese
SBoese@uwyo.edu wrote: