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talcum · 04-14-2004, 07:11 PM

I'm new and was looking at some of the pumps listed on the "What's your pump?" question, and calculated that with 0.5" hose and a 1200 lph flow, the velocity in the system was over 8 m/sec. Thats plenty to start to get cavitation and that's one of the small pumps listed on that page. I figured you'd have to run a pressurized system to actually get the rated flows mentioned. Am I just looking at the problem wrong?

04-14-2004, 07:11 PM	#6
talcum Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison Posts: 99	Why I asked .... I'm new and was looking at some of the pumps listed on the "What's your pump?" question, and calculated that with 0.5" hose and a 1200 lph flow, the velocity in the system was over 8 m/sec. Thats plenty to start to get cavitation and that's one of the small pumps listed on that page. I figured you'd have to run a pressurized system to actually get the rated flows mentioned. Am I just looking at the problem wrong?