Pool Flow Meter Installation

Where it is not practical to meet the required straight pipe runs for the flow meter you may consider using flow conditioners or straighteners.

Pool flow meter installation. Install the flowmeter after the filter. Flow meters were always a good idea and many commercial swimming pools already benefit from flow meters as part of health and safety requirements relating to flow and filtration minimums. The flowread measures the accurate water flow through your recirculation system. Flow range 20 110 gpm.

Not only is the orifice plate placed much too close to an elbow the elbow happens to be on the upstream side of the orifice plate where disturbances have the greatest effect. Select an installation site provide a minimum of 8 clearance above the pipe for the flowmeter. Our meters are calibrated to the size of your piping so if you have 1 inch piping you would want to purchase a 1 inch flow meter a two inch flow meter for two inch piping and so on. This is an analog flow meter for horizontal pipe installation on 4 pvc plumbing.

Install flow control or flow limiters downstream of the meter where vortex or corkscrew flow is expected increase inlet and outlet sections or install flow straighteners. Residential pools are not operated the same way and with the same scrutiny as commercial pools. Also the pipe on which the flowmeter is installed has to be horizontal and 21 long 6 after the flowmeter and 15 before the flowmeter.