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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 -- 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 |
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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 "sw" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 |
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