GPI Flow Meters – New Industrial Flow Meter Catalog
We hope you enjoy the new improvements in our latest industrial flow meter catalog. Please check it out below:
You can also download a PDF of the GPI flow meter catalog here!
Let us know what you think on the new design and if you have any questions on any of our flow processing instruments.
Thanks for reading our blog and we will post some new applications and other flow meter articles soon.
Want More Information on GPI Flow Meters?
If you have questions about these meters please feel free to call us at 316-686-7361 or email us at meters@gplains.com.
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Three-Inch and Four-Inch Water Meters From GPI
3″ and 4″ Water Meters
The 3" and 4" Water Meters are available in Spigot, NPT or Flange Fittings
GPI would like to introduce the new members of the TM Series Water Meters, the TM300 and TM400. If you are looking for 3” and 4” water meters for your water applications give these new GPI water meters a try.
Why buy GPI TM300 and TM400 Water Meters?
GPI has sold this proven design for nearly 30 years. What’s new with the TM300 and TM400 is the larger housing size to accommodate higher flowrates. These meters fit into existing configurations even when space is tight. The TM300 and TM400 meters provide real value and are an excellent choice when accuracy is important. Compare cost and features and you’ll find the GPI Water Meters are unbeatable.
The TM300 and TM400 meters come standard with the low-profile display. The display provides Batch and Cumulative Totals plus Rate of Flow in gallon, litre and cubic feet units.
The TM300 3″ water meter has a flow range of 40 – 400 GPM (151-1514 LPM). The TM400 has a flow range of 60-600 GPM (227-2271 LPM).
These meters meet Schedule 80 PVC specifications. TM300 and TM400 meters are available with Spigot, NPT and Flange fittings. Choose the spigot version when your application requires other fitting types.
Water Meter Applications
Customers tell us they use GPI meters in water processing and irrigation applications. Examples include: make up water, rinse or feedwater and monitoring of greywater. Greywater alone can be used in irrigation districts, landscaping, golf courses, parks and any industry that uses non-potable water.
HVAC Cooling towers and boilers found in large buildings provide another application. These systems use large amounts of water so efficiency and waste can be a real problem. GPI meters can help solve this problem by monitoring flow rates and water usage. Think of building design sites, cold storage or medical equipment facilities, manufacturing plants and other similar industries.
Reverse Osmosis sites frequently use meters with water. GPI Meters can measure water on the inlet and outlet of large R.O. and chemical feed systems. GPI Meters offer a substantial cost savings when compared to mag meters.
Helpful 3″ and 4″ GPI Water Flow Meter Information
- TM Series Water Meters Online Catalog (1/2″ – 4″ Water Meters)
- TM Series Water Meters Specification Catalog Page (PDF)
- TM Series Water Meters – How-to build model for ordering product (PDF)
Want More Information on these Water Meters?
If you have questions about these meters please feel free to call us at 316-686-7361 or email us at meters@gplains.com.
Liquid Propane Gas (LPG) Flow Meter – GPI Flow Meter Application
Flow Meter Application:
Service stations and other fuel outlets sell propane via a traditional retail dispenser and also using a secondary line to fill portable LPG bottles. Selling propane in portable LPG bottles requires measurement by weight as opposed to volume. Customers require a simple, accurate way to capture total dispensed propane to control inventory. Reconciling records and inventory can take time and the confidence in accuracy is often a concern.
Flow Meter Problem:
Stations need a way to monitor propane dispensed by volume and by weight for inventory tracking. The propane dispenser uses volume measurement while portable bottles are sold by weight. The solution to track both amounts requires accuracy, simplicity and must be economical. This application requires reliable measurement with easy maintenance.
Company Type: Propane (LPG) Marketer
Market: Oil and Gas
Application Category: Inventory Management
GPI Flow Meter Used: G2S07N09GMA
Flow Meter Drawing:
Flow Meter Solution:
A breakdown on what GPI Flow Meters Read on their Display
GPI’s G2 stainless steel meter provides an excellent solution for this application. The G2 meter is rugged and compact. This meter provides accuracy and displays 2 totals: 1 resettable and 1 cumulative. Power is provided by lithium batteries for about 9,000 hours of operation. Internal parts are simple to remove and replace. Maintenance is so simple with this meter.
Questions?
If you have questions please feel free to leave a comment on this page or call GPI Customer Service at 888-996-3837 or 316-686-6746.
You can also visit the GPI web site at www.gpimeters.net or our online flow meter catalog at http://catalog.gpi.net
Flow Meters that Measure Diesel Fuel in Boilers – A GPI Flow Meter Application
Flow Meter Application:
The GM Series Meter monitors flowrate of fuel usage in two diesel powered boilers. The steam produced is used in the facility. The meter records totals and flowrate on the local display then transmits a 4-20 mA signal to the PLC allowing for greater monitoring and control throughout the facility.
Flow Meter Problem:
The customer needed to monitor the consumption rate of the generator from a remote location. Control of different systems within this facility is critical.
Company Type: Manufacturing
Market: Industrial Agricultural Chemicals
Application Category: Monitoring
GPI Flow Meters Used: GM003 Oval Gear Flow Meters
Flow Meter Drawing:
Flow Meter Solution:
A pulse output to a PLC allowed for communication from the location to a remote site. The upgrade in technology for this company provided better accuracy and control.
Advantages of Using GPI Flow Meters:
- Cost Savings
- Accuracy
- Safety
- Upgrade in Technology
Questions?
If you have questions please feel free to leave a comment on this page or call GPI Customer Service at 888-996-3837 or 316-686-6746.
You can also visit the GPI web site at www.gpimeters.net or our online flow meter catalog at http://catalog.gpi.net
Water Flow Meter Exclusive:Interview With The New TM Series Water Flow Meter (Yes! The Actual Flow Meter)
The following interview took place at the GPI Flow Meters Media Center the day before the new TM Series Water Flow Meter was released. This interview included other celebrity types like the Industrial Grade Flow Meters, Positive Displacement/Oval Gear flow meters and a few other crowd pleasers from the GPI Industrial flow meter family.
Note: This interview is an exclusive to The Official GPI Flow Meters Blog
TM displayed on a billboard on Water Measurement Boulevard
It has been several years now that people around the world have enjoyed the reliability of our blog guest today. The TM Series water flow meter has been re-engineered and is looking better than ever. Today we have “TM” with us and he is going to tell us what he and his flow meter entourage have been doing over the last year. We hope you enjoy this interview and in the process learn more about these types of economical water flow meters.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
Good day TM, I couldn’t help but notice your arrival to the studio. Do you usually travel with this many water meters? It seems as if you have a lot of family with you.
TM Water Flow Meter:
I work solo most of the time. However, sometimes I get to work with a lot of my family because it takes more than one of us to do the job right. Just ask any sub-metering plant manager. They love us everywhere we go. If we were a rock band they would be our groupies.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
Ha Ha! That is great that you feel that way about sub-metering plant managers. Recently, I ran across a flow process control paparazzi Web site that had some pictures of you on vacation. That is rare for your kind. It seems that you are always working.
A blurry picture taken by a paparazzi of the TM while on vacation after 9,000 hours of continous work.
TM Water Flow Meter:
I do look nice and tan in that picture that is for sure. As you can tell my color has changed because of that vacation. Who knew that applying tanning lotion instead of sun block would make you look gray? Those pictures were taken without my consent but “it is what it is.”
I decided to take a vacation because I had to get new batteries in me. You know I worked for about 9,000 hours straight on two lithium batteries. I needed to get away for a bit. It is always nice to get new batteries after all that intense labor.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
Wow! That does call for a nice vacation. I want to ask you some questions that we received through Twitter. Here is a question from one of our readers.” I researched water flow meters and I found you but in your white PVC incarnation, has your body changed? Are you the same great meter?” That question came from @davidengineer, a water treatment systems engineer.
TM Water Flow Meter:
David, my man, lucky for you I have been pumping some iron, saying my prayers, and taking my vitamins, as the great Hulk Hogan once said. I have been working out in the gym for about six months and I now meet schedule 80 specifications. I have bulked up. I can now sustain pressures of up to 225 PSIG. I know you water treatment engineers like the schedule 80 so while I was in the gym I had a picture on the mirror of one of you. This helped me focus so that someday I could work hard for you. I am here to let you know that I am ready for action.
Spigot Model TM Series Water Meters can be used with different glue-on fittings, male or female. SMILE!
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
You have been upgraded from schedule 40 specifications to meeting schedule 80 specifications; that is really great because that makes you tougher. A lot of questions also came from Facebook and one that seems to come up a lot was the type of fittings that you work well with. Can you give us some information on that?
TM Water Flow Meter:
Yeah, I can inform my fans out there (or soon to be fans) that I can start working for you with any type of fitting imaginable. You can buy me with a spigot fitting or a female NPT fitting. However, if you order me in a spigot model you can go to a hardware store or your local plumbing supply store and buy any type of fitting you want to use and glue it to both of my ends. This means I can mingle with flange fittings, union fittings, couplers, or any other threaded fitting, male or female.
I hope this doesn’t sound pretentious but can I brag a little about my family. I am the big dude in our family of water meters, 2″, but other members include ½”, ¾”, 1″, 1 ½”. You can buy one of us or all of us; we can work alone or in a group and will work hard for you.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
Do you all vary in how many gallons or litres per minute you can measure because of the difference of size?
TM Water Flow Meter:
Yes, we are all hard workers but we have our limits when it comes to running water through us. Below is a picture of our latest specification that includes our model, size flow rate abilities. This picture was published in a snazzy flow meter magazine. I liked the editor of the magazine a lot. He took me to a fancy restaurant where they used nothing but Fiji water; you know that fancy tap water that comes in a square looking bottle and is sold for more than the others. He had tea and some type of sweet bread.
Gallons and Litres Per Minute by Model
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
I can’t help but notice that your display decal is a different color, blue looks good on you.
TM Water Flow Meter:
My distant relatives like the G2 Series flow meters have had blue decals for a long time. I decided that I needed to step up my game so I went ahead and made the change. If you are out there looking for me all you have to do is “LOOK FOR THE BLUE LABEL!” and I am sure you will find me or one of my compadres.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
TM you are internationally used and known. I wanted to clear up some confusion on the types of readings and information you show on your display. However, I feel like you know more on this matter than I do, can you explain this to our readers?
A Breakdown on what the TM Water Flow Meters Read on their Display
TM Water Flow Meter:
It is simple, my man, I can read rate of flow and total, which is both batch and cumulative.
Let me break this down for you, my cumulative totals are just like your odometer in your car, you can not reset them but it keeps track of everything that has gone through me.
My batch total is like your trip odometer, you can reset it once you are done measuring for your application. I know some of the people I have worked with in the past enjoy this feature of mine because they can reset me at the end of their work day to see how much work I did for them that day.
However, I can also give you the flow rate just like your speedometer in your car. If you press the gas pedal in your car your speedometer tells you how fast you are going. Well if you run water with a certain amount of pressure I can tell you how many gallons per minute are flowing through me at that very instant.
For my metric peoples I also read in litres per minute. I want to take this time to shout out to my good buddies in Canada, I will be working for you all soon, eh! (Also long live Bret “The Hitman” Hart and the Hart Foundation)
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
We are running out of time but we have a couple of more questions for you that came to us through e-mail. Here is the first one: “I am a manager and I usually am not close to where my water meter is installed, it is a pain for me to have to walk all the way to where I have it installed, can you be remotely installed? Can I get you with a remote kit so that I can just sit in my comfy chair and see what you are metering for me?”
TM Water Flow Meter:
Definitely! You can add the standard remote kit and have my display about 100 feet away give or take a few feet. I know some of you don’t think you want my display in your office and I am cool with that. If you decide you want me to give you the latest and greatest at a convenient location you can always add this remote kit down the line. No biggie.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
TM what about if someone doesn’t want a display and they just want to be able to get you to send them pulses so that they can be viewed in their Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)?
TM's can send pulses to PLC's
TM Water Flow Meter:
That is easy! All they need to do is buy one of my cousins like the TM200-P or any other cousin with the last letter being a P. They will then be able to get pulses to go straight to their PLC and make their life a lot easier.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
And the final question that came from our online readers is,”I see your display is on horizontally but my pipe is installed vertically. It is difficult to read the display unless I turn my head 90 degrees. Can I modify your display so that I can see what you are displaying easier?”
TM Spigot Water Meter with 90 Degree Adapter
TM Water Flow Meter:
Oh, don’t turn your head, that’s uncomfortable and might cause a cramp in your neck. Just modify the display by having me team up with the 90 degree kit. He and I go way back! He allows me to be installed vertically but gives me the flexibility to show my display horizontally. This makes it easier for you to read my display and it will save you a trip to the chiropractor.
GPI Flow Meter Blog:
TM we want to thank you for granting us this exclusive interview. Our blog readers will enjoy reading about all you have to offer in your upgraded version.
TM Water Meter Then and Now Comparison
TM Water Flow Meter:
Thank you for having me and my water meter family. I want to let anyone reading this blog know that if they want to buy me they can go to www.gpimeters.net/distributors and find their local GPI distributor. They are good people and will take care of any question or need that you might have.
As for me and my water meter family ½”, ¾”, 1″,1/ ½”, and me the 2″ we hope to be working for you in the near future. Remember once installed, we’ll be on for 9,000 hours straight before we take a battery break. We are accurate, economical, and simple. Also, remember to keep looking for the blue label because that is how we roll!
If you have comments about this post please feel free to leave them in the comments section of this blog.
For flow meter questions of any kind you can contact the GPI customer service department at 888-996-3837 or 316-686-7361. If you prefer to send an e-mail you can do that by sending it to meters@gplains.com. Feel free to check out our online flow meter catalog at http://catalog.gpi.net and you can also view some of our flow meter videos at the GPI YouTube Channel.
Looking for GPI Flow Meters in your area? Find a distributor near you
If you are familiar with our current web site (www.gpimeters.net) you probably have looked at our online catalog from time to time. You have also called us or e-mailed us asking where you could buy one of our flow meters or other flow control instrument. Well it is official! You can now find a GPI flow meter distributor near your area by simply filling out an online form.
You can check this new feature at www.gpimeters.net/distributors
We also want to encourge you to take our 10 question online survey to enter to win an iPod shuffle. The survey will help us improve our website with some of your suggestions.
Currently, we are looking at some of those suggestions and seeing how we can implement them to our current website. Thank you all for making our site better.
As always if you have flow meter questions or need help with a GPI flow meter or any other flow control product please call us at 316-686-7361 or 888-996-3837. If you are like me and love the internet by all means shoot us one of those fancy things we call electronic mail at meters@gplains.com.
Finally, let us know what you think of the new distributor feature.
New Water/Glycol Flow Meter Application
Check out the new application that was just posted at www.flowmeterapplications.com. This application helped this company bill properly.
If you haven’t checked out the GPI flow meter sale please visit:
www.gpimeters.net/overstock
To see what we have available.
As always feel free to contact us at meter@gplains.com or by phone at 316-686-7361 toll free at 888-996-3837.
Oil, Diesel and Petroleum Flow Meters at Low Prices – Low Cost Discounted Oval Gear Meters
If you haven’t heard GPI is having an overstock flow meter sale. You will find brand new flow meters that are great for measuring oil, diesel, petroleum and other viscous liquids at discount prices. Please check out what we have to offer at:
www.gpimeters.net/overstock
These meters are of high quality and you can get them at low prices!
While you are there you can also check out the GPI flow meter online catalog. Find water flow meters, oval gear meters, PVDF flow meters, and many more liquid turbine flow meters.
What flow meter video do you want to see? Vote!
The last couple of months have been pretty hectic in my GPI web/new media world. I have been doing some spring cleaning in our online catalog. In this new digital world things don’t literally “pile up” but they do grow. I spent a good part of my time cleaning(or deleting) some of our old manuals from our database to keep everything nice and organized. This task had to be done carefully because you never want to delete something you shouldn’t. I am still going through some of these files to make sure we are current on all of our flow meter products.
I also started to think about what our next flow meter video should be. Mr. Matt Logan (the guy you will probably talk to if you call us) and I discussed some of the topics we think would be beneficial to our customers. I decided to put these topics in a poll so that you could vote for the one you would like for us to shoot. I will only post some of the topics we discussed. However, if you have a topic you would like for us to cover please feel free to write it in.
Water Supply Flow Meter Application – Drinking Water Utility
Are you looking for a water monitoring flow meter? Check out the,” Water Supply Flow Meter Application” at www.flowmeterapplications.com.
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