Timeline for Cold water header tank and pressure
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| Sep 17, 2017 at 2:28 | comment | added | JMLCarter | Showers are more like 15l/min, so 75L for 5min. This is height change of 30cm. Actually many people shower for longer, 10-12min or even 20min. So you can see a height change upto about 1m starting to occur. If other water is being used in the house, this makes the situation worse. However there is also a feeder that fills the tank. | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 23:14 | comment | added | yesmaybe | Thanks for the input. But with a cylindrical tank radius of 28cm, draining 25litres will displace ~10 cms of water, won't it? Will that effect the water pressure during a 5 minute shower? Based on (3.14*28*28)*10 = 24.6l | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 23:10 | answer | added | Pere | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 16, 2017 at 23:02 | history | edited | yesmaybe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 16, 2017 at 20:39 | comment | added | JMLCarter | As sooon as the water level drops the pressure will reduce, so a narrow tank is the worst solution. You need a tank that doesn't change its level during the course of a shower. | |
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| Sep 16, 2017 at 19:32 | history | asked | yesmaybe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |