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Unread 01-14-2003, 03:15 AM   #8
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Originally posted by Volenti
pump some water through it without the base on, that way you can check out the jets, see if they interfear with each other or not.
Doesn't work like that. The intereference comes from the back pressure of the jets striking the surface. If they are too close what happens is that the water from the inner jets really has to "fight" to get to the plate. This results in a dramatic drop in jet efficiency. If they are too close, then it becomes little better than a single inlet approach.

The jets need room to impinge onto the plate without the flow bouncing off the plate smashing hard into adjacent jet streams.
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