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Unread 02-28-2003, 02:44 AM   #14
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Originally posted by unregistered

the gd thing is using Pa !
so much for mH2O representing a consensus
Well it only makes sense, as if one is talking about air pressure, there's no point into considering meters of water, thus using the SI unit (Pa).

We can perfectly use diffent units for water and air. After all air backpressure is only used at one place (rad, air side) and not in relation with any other figure in the sim.
On the other hand, some could consider it's throwing away the consistency, but consider that's air pressure, and it's different from water pressure.

So - what do we choose - use Pa for fans (as per the mfgers specs), and mH20 for water ? Or Pa for both ?
Remember the end user won't see any figure, apart from the output of the solver (°C/W, °C and lpm).
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