A gas is much more fluid, so much more will pour out than would the water from the leakage point - therefore much easier to find the leak(s).
Acceptable leakage on water supply pipe?
- Thread starter Ian H
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A gas is much more fluid, so much more will pour out than would the water from the leakage point - therefore much easier to find the leak(s).
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Just found an example of what I was thinking of. Variotec 460. Guess it's just a practical issue of filling a long run with enough gas. But I was just thinking that your 1L/hr works out about a tablespoon of water a minute, akin to a dripping tap or ball valve. Just can't see how the correlator mics would pick a leak that small up along a pipe. Even the gas solution might not work at that sort of level.
Yes, i’ve used the Seba one before but it didn’t really help.
You input the length of the pipe and it should tell you how far along the pipe the leak is. If you don’t know the distance you can add the distance as 100, and then you can use the result as a percentage. You can add upto 8 microphones onto the pipe in various places.
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I think the problem is getting that much gas into the pipe and maintaining the pressure while you find it. I’ll recommend this method if I don’t find the leak today
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