need help here..
need help here..
(OP)
i have watched this video and i want to know how things happen. how did they compute the pressure and flow in each pipes and the control they used. what type of valve did they use to close/open the pipe?
any help is appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLPkveoJgw
any help is appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yLPkveoJgw





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In either case you need a rack of interface cards to drive solenoid valves, that are fed with water at constant pressure and discharge through tubes of constant length and diameter. In this case, the water supply pressure is just a couple inches of water, which you could do with a standpipe spilling any water you didn't need from the supply header for each row of valves.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I don't see see how the "noozles" interface with the column drivers.
What valve specs are confusing you?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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how am i suppose to calculate each line pressure and the main pressure needed for the motor to support when all the valves are open..
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Couldn't you just transcribe the text?
( My conjecture: You have found a commercial source for the object you seek You are having difficulty comprehending the material well enough to copy it on the cheap, which is your unstated intent. )
The text appears to be part of a catalog sheet for a nozzle. Or perhaps for an array of nozzles; the stated flow seems a lot for the stated head.
Why don't you post a link to the complete catalog page, so we can understand the context that is giving you difficulty?
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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The video shows a clock/message display that can display at least 8 ASCII characters legibly.
Dotwise character displays like that require a 5x7 matrix per character, so there are at least
8 x 5 x 7 = 280 possible dots, or discrete fountains, if that's how it's done.
I.e., doing it the obvious way, you need 280 solenoid valves, and associated drivers.
Something about the video suggests that _maybe_ it's simpler than that, i.e. at each 'dot' there is some kind of fluidic AND gate, in which case the display would need 7 row driver solenoid valves and 8 x 5 = 40 column driver solenoid valves, or only 47 valves (not necessarily all the same size) instead of 280. Frame by frame examination of the video file, or a few random stills with a reasonably fast shutter, might confirm or eliminate that possibility.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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There is a US patent, # 4,111,363
... for doing it the hard way, with many many valves.
The patent shows you how to build one for yourself. Programming it is an exercise left for the student...
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Check out freepatentsonline.com.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA