What is the difference between a pressure reducer and a flow restrictor ? Surely they just reduce the bore.
The restrictor on my bar mixer inputs (for use with high pressure water) is a plastic disk with an O-ring on one side and holes round the perimeter on the other side. Is this doing anything fancy other than reducing the bore to a tiny size ?
In this application you need to maintain the pressure (for a high-pressure shower head maybe with smaller holes etc), but reduce the flow so that the input ports can be wider open so there is more leeway on the temp balancing.
Is there a better solution than using the supplier restrictors, i.e. some device elsewhere in the supply pipes ? What about just having the isolation valve half open ?
I don't think pressure and flow can be independant parameters.
Simon.