Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations JAE on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Flow Meter Gauge Scale Factor

Status
Not open for further replies.

b7031719

Electrical
Joined
May 23, 2018
Messages
19
Location
GB
I have seen a few differential pressure gauges now with a logarithmic scale in flow units and a scale factor written on the dial e.g. x600 IGPM etc. What is the reason for the x600 scale?
 
It's a square root function, not logarithmic. I suspect that IGPM is imperial Gallons per minute.

The x600 is the scaling factor used with a specific the primary flow element (orifice.venturi) that the gauge is measuring DP across.

Same gauge can be used for 1" line of a 6" line, for the same DP different scaling for the different flow rates in different sized pipes.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top