T&T: AC raw water pump flow rate?

Lee Licata lalicata@alum.rpi.edu
Fri Mar 16 11:58:20 EST 2007


Keith,

Had the same setup and did add a lockable globe valve to throttle the  
unit closer to my March pump so that when both ac units were running  
at 100& the discharge water temp was with 1F of each other.

As an engineer, excessive flow rate can cause unexpected erosion  
problems so I would suggest that you stay with what you got, and  
balance the cooling capability of each flow stream.

May want to consider putting the flow in series. Tiara and others do  
this all the time with nil effect. Just a thought if you want to see  
if that works before buying a valve or two to balance the system...

Lee


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