Hose connector internal diameter
 

There are various places in the garden where it would be convenient to
connect additional lengths of hose to fixed hoses (overflows off the
waterbutts, for example). The Hozelock connectors make it easy to do
this, but I've noticed the internal diameter of these is tiny, far
smaller than the diameter of the hose. Doesn't this significantly
decrease the flow rate? (Which is important when trying to get rid of as
much as possible because the butt is about to overflow.) Are there
connectors (other than ducktape) without this disadvantage?

regards
sarah


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Hose connector internal diameter
 

The error in your logic may be in applying what would happen if a crowd of
people suddenly had to go through a narrowing of the path. That would indeed
effect everything past the narrowing. The water is powered by the pressure
pushing it through and this will make the water go faster in the narrow
section so largely negating the sort of effect one would expect by using the
people analogy.

With water the flow is effected by not just the bore of the pipe but by the
length of pipe so a very short narrow section will not effect it as much as
one would think.

JohnB



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Rod wrote:

I thought I might be mistaken, which is why I asked :-) But it does seem
logical that one really narrow bit will determine the flow rate
everywhere beyond that point. Something to reason through as I do the
shopping...

thanks
sarah

--
Waist deep, neck deep
We'll be drowning before too long
We're neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damned fools keep yelling to push on

Hose connector internal diameter
 

JohnB wrote:

The error in your logic may be in applying what would happen if a crowd of
people suddenly had to go through a narrowing of the path. That would indeed
effect everything past the narrowing. The water is powered by the pressure
pushing it through and this will make the water go faster in the narrow
section so largely negating the sort of effect one would expect by using the
people analogy.

With water the flow is effected by not just the bore of the pipe but by the
length of pipe so a very short narrow section will not effect it as much as
one would think.

Thank you :-)

regards
sarah


--
Waist deep, neck deep
We'll be drowning before too long
We're neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damned fools keep yelling to push on