Water Cooled Transformer

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eltech Power-User Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: oz Posts: 252 Good Answers: 10	Water Cooled Transformer 02/17/2015 12:55 PM
	we have water coming in from a single supply and splits at various points so it can cool different areas of the transformer.There are T-pieces at all the points were it splits.I noticed that one of the holes in each t piece is smaller than the other two.Can someone explain the reason behind this?
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Crabtree Guru Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Commissariat de Police, Nouvions, occupied France, 1942. Posts: 2599 Good Answers: 77	#1 Re: water cooled transformer 02/17/2015 1:01 PM
	To balance the flows a bit without using valves? So that it can only be installed one way round? You could always telephone the equipment manufacturer. They would certainly know. Is there a prize for getting it right? __________________ Good moaning!
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ozzb Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rosedale, Maryland USA Posts: 5197 Good Answers: 266	#2 Re: water cooled transformer 02/17/2015 1:16 PM
	So they can run all the cooling water through one pipe to the transformer instead of multiple lines. __________________ Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty, pristine body but rather to come sliding in sideways, all used up and exclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!"
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#3 Re: water cooled transformer 02/17/2015 1:43 PM
	You are using a reducing T. The two like ID's are in line, right? The "branch" port is smaller than the "run" ports. The two same size ID's are for through flow, "run". You can order the correct T, or use these.
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SolarEagle Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: by the beach in Florida Posts: 33392 Good Answers: 1817	#4 Re: water cooled transformer 02/17/2015 2:59 PM
	The reduction in pipe size is a common strategy to maintain pressure and velocity in water distribution systems.... __________________ All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#5 Re: Water Cooled Transformer 02/18/2015 4:59 AM
	The branches off a manifold are often smaller than the manifold itself. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#6 In reply to #5 Re: Water Cooled Transformer 02/18/2015 4:37 PM
	I'd say always smaller.
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