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Pressure Gauges

Pressure Gauges

Pressure Gauges

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I was asked by a customer the other day how often their boiler's water pressure gauge should be calibrated.  I have never been asked this or looked into it before, does anyone have any idea?  

This boiler is in Canada.

Let me know if you need any further information.

RE: Pressure Gauges

macmet,

I would tend to think that at a bare minimum it would have to be annualy. I would also surmize that if your clients certification is coming due it would be a good time to get them calibrated.  Through my QC manual all my testing equipment has to be done every 6 months.  Each clients QC/QA has their own standards.  Hope this helps,

Eric


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RE: Pressure Gauges

(OP)
Just in case anyone else was curious, I contacted the boiler manufacturer and they recommend that pressure gauges are calibrated once a year.  He did say that some areas require them to be done every six months.

Then I contacted the gauge manufacturer.  They apparently do not make recommendations regarding calibration.  They leave that for the customer to determine based on local regulations.   However, they did mention that a lot of their end users do calibrate every six months.

RE: Pressure Gauges

When making this decision I always ask "what is the data from this gauge used for, and what are the consequences of a 15% error?"  For a feedwater pump discharge gauge there are many important uses, but the consequences of a 10-15% drift are pretty minor (you are typically comparing a reading to last month, not to some objective standard) and I lean towards annually.

David

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