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Unread 11-14-2004, 04:34 AM   #41
Cathar
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I believe I've finally gotten all the bugs worked out of the procedure.

Even if nobody else really believes in this, I am gaining increasing confidence in it. The following graph's patterns mimics near exactly what I see/saw in my own testing with fixed power input fed to the pumps. There would naturally be some variations though between pump input power and hydraulic power depending on where one sits on the efficiency curve of the pump setup, so the correlation is not going to be perfect. I believe that this is the corrections that Since87 was trying to solve with his posts at OC.com.

In my own testing I'm using hydraulic powers from around 1W to 8W being fed to the blocks, although I guess that I really tended to focus on the 1.5-3W range when I look back at the work I've done and correlate it to hydraulic power.

Anyway, here's the updated graph that does contain some extrapolations to arrive at the 4W power figure.



[Edit: New graph - more blocks]

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