Balancing pump output

If you have two water features or statues and one pump, assuming the pump is powerful enough  you will need to balance the pump output, if you do not all the water will come from the feature with the lowest outlet, which is not what you want.

 The way round this is to balance the pump output so that less goes to the lower outlet and the remainder (more) goes to the higher outlet, by installing a variable valve (ball valve in this case) you can reduce the amount of flow to the left pipe which increases the flow to the right pipe.

		This could be your feature, as you see one outlet is higher than the other.
		This is what happens if you do not balance the output, too much water comes from the lower outlet.
		With a slight adjustment the same amount of water comes from each outlet.
		This is a close up of the ball valve, it could equally be a gate valve or in line valve.
Although the pictures are "just two pipes" you could have two monoliths, or two water spitters, or 2 small features, this will always be true if one outlet is higher than the other, you must put the valve in the outlet to the lower feature, not the higher one.

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