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Adding Hanger Types to HydraLIST

If you want to use a new type of hanger, or are a fab shop that gets a job from a contractor that uses a hanger type that you do not have, it is easy to add that new hanger type to your own machine. A hanger is an assembly, and an assembly is just…

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Recently our previous blog service (Typepad) ended their business – so, we have a new home. It will take a bit to get images back and displaying properly, but we are working on it! Final pageview count of original Typepad blog: 387,232

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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

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Negative flows in a Loop or Grid

Another quickie, this one posed by a customer –

Why am I getting negative numbers for my flow on part of my loop system?

That
is normal in a loop or grid. The negative sign indicates that the flow is in the
reverse order of the direction the pipe has been input into the program. In a
loop, the water is split and will go both ways around the loop to get to the
flowing heads

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