Blogger: Mark 2010-12-03 14:10:30

It is easier to use BlogSpot.com. You can find the latest blogs here: squirtonsite.blogspot.com

Blogger: Tom 2009-06-26 11:51:33

Take a look at : squirtonsite.blogspot.com for my personal ramblings. Warning: This blog may contain adult content.

Blogger: Tom 2009-01-27 16:47:06

You would not analyze a water supply system by calculating only one pipe's hydraulics....would you? Then why do we accept such incompleteness from our pressurized drainfield methods? As engineers and designers it is our responsibility to know and not to guess. Squirt calculates the entire pipe system and provides complete results.

Blogger: Mark 2009-01-19 15:35:47

Just posted, an excellent article titled "Pressure Dosed Drainfield Design: How to achieve accuracy, efficiency and design flexibility using traditional and non-traditional methods of calculation". You can find the article here.

Blogger: Tom 2009-01-19 14:09:58

Squirt's "Pump Chamber" module allows you to calculate pump chamber hydraulics easily. After you enter the data, it will show the system curve and allow you to automatically select pumps. Squirt will provide the flow rate and TDH for each pump selected.

Blogger: Mark 2008-12-10 18:38:55

Squirt 2008 is now available for download. Log in to download Squirt. After installing send us an email to receive a license key for execution.

Blogger: Tom 2008-12-10 09:55:51

The design of pressurized drainfields was recently a topic of discussion on one of the engineering blogs. Several engineers contributed their suggestions to the person seeking advice. The discussion illustrates several points upon which I will focus over the next few days. For now I want to provide a summary....Engineer designs a pressure dosed drainfield to handle more than 1000 gpd. Contractor on the job tells engineer the drainfield will not function correctly. Engineer tells contractor to build it the way the engineer designed it. Contractor builds it the way the engineer designed it. System does not work.....Contractor scraps the system, rebuilds it according to his experience. State DEQ approves system. Contractor saves the day. But, probably because everyone just wanted to be done with it, the system will still have greater than 35% flow differential across each lateral. Read the full discussion.

Blogger: Mark 2008-12-08 22:41:46

I'm currently testing the Pump Chamber module. I added the feature that when a pump is selected an image of the manufacturer's pump will be displayed. See a screen shot of the Pump Chamber here.

Blogger: Tom 2008-12-03 07:43:50

Mark: This will be a great addition to the site. I see it as an avenue to help those involved in the design of pressure dosed systems understand why Squirt is such a huge improvement over old methods. Every time I design a system, I wish we had developed Squirt years ago. Yesterday, I taught my new draftsman how to complete the hydraulics for a five lateral-sloping system and then used Squirt's automatic pump selection to select the correct pump.

Blogger: Mark 2008-12-02 19:28:49

Finally, I have the blogger done so that blogs will show up on the home page. There are still some tweeks to be done (like unescaping special characters... easy stuff to fix really) however it is now functional. The blogs will hopefully keep users updated as to what we have been working on and the evolution of Squirt. The trial version of Squirt is coming soon. I will post a blog as soon as it is ready, hopefully within the next couple days.