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Greetings,
I promise this will be the
last time I start an EWP topic this year (boo, hiss, sorry)
:-)
First, at the suggestion of
Todd, I did a crude flow test of the one way valves that I recently
received. Unfortunately, the news is not good. In my extremely crude
test, the pump flowed about 20 gpm with no valve. With the valve, it was
about 6 gpm. Aside from the overall restriction, the ball in the valve
started vibrating, and caused the flow be reduced even further. All in
all, a pretty poor showing.
Now that the valves are out
of the picture, I'm looking at plumbing options again. Attached is a
drawing of the parallel arrangement, without the check valves. If one pump
was off, it would be possible to get reverse flow through it, but the water
would have to go through the Meziere fitting, hose, pump, hose, one of
the cores, and more hose to get back in the loop. This is
clearly a better situation (from a standpoint of reverse flow) than having
the two pumps joined with a Tee at their inlets, and outlets.
Would anyone care to guess if this would positively flow water through the
engine when one pump was off?
Next question, is anyone
running their cores in series (I think I heard Tracy groan), or is everyone
running parallel?
Happy New
Year!
Rusty (Leon's got us
beat)
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