Sean - The old fashion way to regulate water pressure and supply was to put up a water tower. Nowadays, you may want to consider something like a pressurized expansion tank for the water supply. Then, once you have a constant water pressure, you can use flow meters to monitor and control the regulator valves for each system. You may even be able to recycle some of the water by collecting it in a tank and pumping it back into the pressurized expansion tank. Anyways, just a thought. Ed Valentine Electronics Manufacturing Solutions 8612 Mourning Dove Road, Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: (919) 270-5145, Fax: (919) 847-9971 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.ems-consulting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "sean clinton" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:00 AM Subject: [TN] Water Consumption reduction > All, > > We are looking at ways to control the amount of water we use throughout > our plant, as fluctuations in water pressure arise when differing > numbers of production units are up and running. Currently we rely on > operators to open and close valves as the water pressure changes. We > feel this is inefficient, and are thinking of ways to limit: 1.) the > consumption amount and 2.) to regulate the water going to each line so > enough will be available at sufficient pressure to properly operate each > production machine. > Our thought is to install pressure regulators/restrictors on each unit > to control this problem. Does anyone out there have any experience with > this type of situation? If so, how did you resolve this issue. Any > help and advice is appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Sean Clinton > Process Engineer > Sanmina Quickturn Division > Santa Clara, CA > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------