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Always thought those fancy flow meters were a waste of money until the job on the Ohio River.
We were running the cutter head too fast for the pump capacity and didn't know it, just burning fuel. The foreman rented a FloScan 8000 for a week. Seeing the real-time numbers showed we were pushing 20% more slurry than the pump could handle. Who else has had a tool change their mind like that?
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moore.beth24d ago
That FloScan 8000 rental is a solid example. It sounds like you went from guessing to knowing exactly where your system choked. For the folks who ditched their meters, what was the tipping point? Was it a specific job where the numbers just didn't match what you were seeing on the ground, or did the tool itself give bad data?
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elliotm5724d ago
See, I'm the opposite. I had a flow meter on a fuel line and it just gave me one more number to second guess. Ended up going back to the old way, watching the job and listening to the engine. Sometimes you just get data for data's sake, you know?
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Totally get that. I ran into the same thing with pressure sensors on my old truck. Started chasing every little dip on the gauge instead of just feeling how it drove. Ended up pulling the display out because it was making me fix stuff that wasn't even broken. Sometimes your gut and ears are better than a screen full of numbers, right? What did you end up watching for instead of the meter?
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