Thank you John. Brad
-----Original Message----- From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Denhardt Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:21 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Suction Pipe Alignment for In-Line Vertical Fire Pump You are correct. Not an issue. John Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2015, at 3:20 PM, "Brad Casterline" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been fighting the old 'pump room not big enough' frustration and it > occurred to me the alignment requirements would not apply to an In-Line > Vertical, right? > > First and foremost is the wording itself; "...parallel to a horizontal > split-case pump shaft..." , because DUH the shaft on an In-Line Vertical is > vertical. And with the impeller being horizontal there is not much one can > do to get equal velocity on each side of the impeller because there is a top > and bottom instead of sides. > > If this thinking is correct I hope it saves a Sprink some time and > aggravation down the road. > > > > thanks, > > > > Brad Casterline, NICET IV > > Fire Protection Division > > > > FSC, Inc. > > P: 913-722-3473 > > [email protected] > > www.fsc-inc.com > > > > Engineering Solutions for the Built Environment > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
