Great Plains Meter, Inc'

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• WELCOME INTRODUCTIONS
• History
• Product Lines
• CALIFORNIA NEBRASKA PLANTS
• Manufacturingall at CA Plant Except Propeller
  Meters Accessory Items.
• AssemblyBolt-on Saddle Meters Here.

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION AND CONSTRUCTION
• Measure Velocity in a Confined Area.
• Reliable, Accurate Economical.
• Minimal Friction Losses.
• Most Meter Problems Due to Poor Installation,
  Misapplication or Lack of Maintenance.
• Unitized ConstructionPropeller-Bearing
  Assembly-Ell -Register Assembly-Cover.
• (see page six of Maintenance Manual)

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McCrometer Propeller Specifications

• Performance
• Accuracy /- 2, AWWA Standard C704-02
• Maximum Temp 160 F (Standard Construction)
• Pressure Rating 150 psi
• Options
• Saddle constructed for any O.D.
• Used on any pipe material Calibrated to I.D.
• Register Extensions available
• All stainless steel construction available
• High Temp. Construction available
• Over-run Bearing assembly high flow rates

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Propeller Drive System

• Magnetic coupling
• Shears when hit
• Water Barrier
• Flexible cable
• Less wear
• Less maintenance
• Less drag

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION CONSTRUCTION (CONT)
• Propellers
• Made of High-Impact Plastic (low mass)
• Ryton Available for High Temperatures or
  Corrosive Fluids
• Reverse Helix Props Available for Adverse
  Conditions (sand and surface water)
• Props Measure Forwards or Backwards

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION CONSTRUCTION (cont)
• Bearing Assemblies
• Standard Bearing Assemblies
• Overrun Bearing Assemblies
• Stainless Steel Housing Option
• Reverse Option

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION CONSTRUCTION (cont)

• Saddle - Welded Ell Assemblies
• Stainless Steel
• Liner Cable
• Register Assemblies
• 6-Digit Totalizer Standard(7 digit available)
• Rate-of-Flow Indicator
• Reading Dial Faces - Unit Options

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Electronic Options/Register

• EA631-00 pulse output
• E7000-00 4-20ma
• Datalogging/Telemetry
• New FlowCom Register
• electronic register
• pulse outputs
• 4-20mA outputs

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Propeller Meter with Transmitter
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION CONSTRUCTION (cont)
• Register Asemblies (cont)
• Calibration Choices
• Reduced/Increased Dial Face Options
• 7-wheel Odometers
• Dial Face Capacities
• Index Wheels for Timing

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McCROMETER DIAL FACE WITH TEST HAND
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• OPERATION CONSTRUCTION (cont)
• Register Cases (Canopy)
• Die-cast Aluminum
• Gasketed Magnified Polycarbonate Lens
• Warranties
• One Year on Material Workmanship
• One Year on Repairs
• 2 and 3 year warranties available on new

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• METER MODELS AND SELECTION
• Saddle Meters
• Bolt-on
• Weld-on
• Must know OD ID
• Pipe Materials
• Tube Meters
• Welded Ells - M(x)100s
• Removable Metering Elements - MWs

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• METER MODELS AND SELECTION (cont)
• Open Flow Meters
• Minimum Maximum Flow Considerations
• Small Props, Large Props Trimming
• Overrun Bearing Assemblies High Flows
• Flow Ranges (RD or ID)

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• PROPER INSTALLATION OF PROP METERS
• Evaluation Sheets
• Correct OD ID
• Need OD to Fit Saddle
• Need ID to Calibrate Accuracy
• Meter Tags

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• PROPER INSTALLATION OF PROP METERS (cont)
• Full Pipe Flow a Necessity
• Raising a Downstream Pipe Section
• Gooseneck
• Reduced Pipe Section
• Gate Valve
• Gate Box

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McCrometer Installation Guidelines
Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• Non-Jetting Flow Conditions
• 10 P.D. Unobstructed pipe Vanes Recommended
• 5-10 P.D. Unobstructed pipe Vanes Required
• lt 5 P.D. Installation only by permission
• Cooling Jacket counts as straight run
• Cooling Cools creates turbulence (cannot be
  counted)

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Straightening Vanes
Bolt-in vanes
Weld-in vanes
Slip-in vanes
Al. or steel
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McCrometer Installation Guidelines
Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• Jetting Flow Conditions - Valves
• 20 P.D. Unobstructed pipe Vanes Recommended
• 10 - 20 P.D. Unobstructed pipe Vanes Required
• lt 10 P.D. Installation w/ FS100 (NEW)
• FS100 allows installation with 1.5 P.D. from
  major sources of turbulence.

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• New McCrometer
• Flow Straightener Model FS100
• Reduces Upstream Distance to
• 1½ Pipe Diameters

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McCrometer FS100 Insertion Flow Straightener
Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• Min. Upstream Straight Run 1.5 P.D.
• Acceptable Installation Effects
• Chemigation Valves
• In-plane elbows
• Out-of-plane elbows
• Fully-Open Butterfly and Gate Valves
• Available in 6, 8, 10, 12 in. (OD IPS)
• F saddle shorter length / meter hole installation

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• PROPER INSTALLATION OF PROP METERS (cont)
• Vertical Installations
• Special R-O-F Calibration
• Sand Trash Problems
• Reverse Option
• Drilling Props
• Overrun Bearings

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Meter installed in Pivot Riser
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• Often used for surface water diversions
• Design places the meter ell in a rounded down
  stream configuration
• Allows passage of grass, moss and stringy
  materials
• Use with open center tri-vanes with beveled ends
  for passage of trash.

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products is our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
McCrometer Propeller Options
Forward Mainline Prop
Reverse Helix Prop
Sensor Prop
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• MISCELLANEOUS CONSIDERATIONS
• Determining Rate-of-Flow by Timing Odometer
• Meter Accuracy

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• DETERMINING ROF BY TIMING ODOMETER

(with gallon totalizer)
GALLONS PUMPED X 60 GPM SECONDS
5000 GALLONS X 60 750 GPM 400 SECONDS
The longest time period gives the best accuracy!
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• DETERMINING ROF BY TIMING ODOMETER

(with acre foot totalizer)
ACRE FEET PUMPED X 43,560 ft3 CFS
SECONDS acre-foot
.OO5 AC FT X 43,560 1.98 CFS 110
SECONDS
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products is our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• DETERMINING ROF BY TIMING ODOMETER

(with acre inch totalizer)
ACRE INCHES PUMPED X 27,154 gal GPS
SECONDS AC-IN
.060 AC IN X 27,154 Gal 14.81 GPS 110
SECONDS AC-IN
14.81 GPS X 60 sec/min 888.6 GPM
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
Water Equivalents Table/ Useful Formulas   1
cubic foot .....................7.48 gallons
.....................62.31 lbs. of water 1
acre-foot .....................43,560 cubic feet
..................325,851 gallons 1 cubic foot
per second (cfs) ........................448.80
gallons per minute 1 cfs ........................
........................................646,272
gallons per day For 24 hours ...................
............................1.98 acre-feet For
30 days...........................................
.......59.5 acre-feet For 1 year.................
.....................................724
acre-feet 1 million gallons .....................
.........................................3.07
acre-feet 1,000 gallons per minute
.................................................
..........2.23 cfs An acre-foot covers one acre
of land one foot deep Acres in a
circle..(Radius2 x ) / 43560
Acres Circumference.(Radius) x 2 x
or (Diameter) x GPM per acre .GPM/Ac
irrigated GPM/Ac Inches per day
.GPM/Ac x .053 In/Day
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products is our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
Master Meter - Multi-jet
APPLICATIONS Low Flows Small Line
Sizes Feedlots Drip Systems Sod, Turf
Nurseries Potable Water Only
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Master Meter Multi-jet
PROS Measures Low Flows 1/4-5 GPM Very
Accurate CONS Horizontal Installation
Only Subject to Freeze Damage (some models have
frost plugs) Potable Water Only
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Multi-jet Meters
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Master Meter Multi-jet
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Multi-jet Meters
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TURBINE METERS
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• PROPER INSTALLATION OF PROP METERS (cont)
• Vibration Damage
• Protection When Welding
• Chemical Injections
• Access by Farm Animals

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
Register
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• MAINTENANCE REPAIR OF METERS
• Good Visual Inspection
• Moisture on Lens
• Vibration Damage
• Physical Damage
• Spin Propeller
• Check if ROF Indicator Works OK
• Check if Totalizer Works
• Check if Cable Binds Up

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• MAINTENANCE REPAIR (cont)
• Check Bearing Assemblies
• Check for Side Play Worn Bearings
• Check Forward Back Play
• Check for Sand in Bearings
• Check for Smoothness of Operation

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• MAINTENANCE REPAIR (cont)
• Field Servicing Repair
• Minimal Tools Needed
• Can Change Register While Running
• Breaking Seal Warranty
• Factory Repair Servicing
• Best Option is Send to Us in Nebraska
• Time Factors in Regulated Areas
• We are Willing to Provide Training

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"

• MAINTENANCE REPAIR (cont)
• Off-Season Storage
• Blank Saddles Plates
• Rodent Damage
• Wind Turning Prop
• Cattle Rubbing on Meters

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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
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Great Plains Meter, Inc.
"Quality products are our business - Quality
service is our ethic"
www.greatplainsmeter.com
E-Mail kenq_at_greatplainsmeter.net
TOLL FREE Ph. 1-888-501-0019