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Originally Posted by Razor6
How does Laing know the MTBF of their pumps, they're just estimates right? Wouldn't they need to wait 6-7 years after development to specify the true MTBF?
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Anyone quoting MTBF is either using statistical modelling (get X number of pumps for y amount of time, crunch numbers) or accelerated testing. Don't know what you would do for accelerated testing for a pump, but for something like a cpu, you do heat cycling and radiation acceleration along with voltage.
Aaron Spink
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