Plumbing Dreams: Accurate Panel Gauges Require Proper Knowledge and Understanding Starting at Preconstruction
know for sure that just ain’t so,” speaks to this. These discrepancies arise from the specific location from which the pressure gauge is reading and the characteristics of the discharge plumbing between the pump and the discharge outlet.
Inaccuracy in panel pressure readings can negatively impact firefighting operations, most concerningly in creating conditions where handlines are being pumped improperly leading to either excess nozzle pressure, reaction, and flows or the converse—unreasonably low nozzle pressure leading to low flows and excessive kinking.
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