Can the apex record total gallons use on a 1/4 flow meter? I’m going to be installing one for my ro system. I want a visual way to know when to change the pre filters before the resins
Can the apex record total gallons use on a 1/4 flow meter? I’m going to be installing one for my ro system. I want a visual way to know when to change the pre filters before the resins
No, it does not track total gallons, just flow rates.
Given the flow rate and time I would think you could calculate the total gallons over time. I'm sure there's a formula for that.Originally Posted by nicholb
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There is but it's not easy to do from fusion. The formula is the integral or area under the curve. A close approximation is to find the average flow rate and multiply by time.
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I remember that from calculus and that the limits bounding the area under the curve are the starting and ending times. Kind of fun to dig out something you learned 40 years ago and use it to solve a real world problem. So, how about the equation?
Since the flow is a reading not a defined equation it is the discreet sum of the flow reading at each sample multiplied by the sample time. It is much simpler to just find the average and multiply by the total time used in the average.
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