50 choice 2
you need to figure out how much water per minute you need and get the minimum pipe diameter that will give you that. the bigger they are the more expensive they are, on a logaritmic scale.
10 centimeters/second
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Ball valve is usually preferable. full flow with no restriction and a lot easier and faster to turn off when needed.
Diameter of water fog:less dan or equal to 50um
The diameter of a typical drop of water is approximately 2-4 millimeters.
Only circles (or spheres) have a diameter
There are two water temperatures, incoming and lake temp. On Friday, 6/15/12 water incoming water temp was 63 degrees. Air temp was 86 degrees
presure regulator is on the incoming cold water line
To increase the pressure you would have to reduce the diameter of the pipe. Half the diameter would give you twice as much pressure. Therefore to get 25 percent more pressure you would reduce the diameter by 25 percent giving you 37.5. Be careful though, this only increases the water pressure not the water flow rate.
Length x Width and then Pitch with a minimum of 2" diameter and it is called a STORM drain as no one really wants to just let potable water run down a drain constantly as it can be quite expensive