# Connectors

You can use a connector to make as many pipe connection joins as required. Connectors exhibit no pressure loss across the node itself, so using a connector to model say a manifold system would not be appropriate. Connectors have no associated charts or calculation methods. The only calculation made at a Connector is the average pressure. Although a Connector node exhibits no pressure loss across the node itself, we should be aware that Entry and Exit losses are created at pipes where we insert a Connector. Let's consider an example case to demonstrate: A Connector node has been inserted into a single 10.0 M pipeline splitting the pipe into two equal segment lengths of 5.0 M each. This means there will be an exit loss (K) associated with pipe -1 and an entry loss associated with pipe -2. This is taken into account automatically by the software in the calculation routines. Figure 1: Pipe split with a Connector node.