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Originally posted by pHaestus
Since87 would the P-Q curves be useful for your computer simulation program? If so then I need to make sure I collect the data in a way relevant to you.
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Well, with the loss of gmat as lead programmer and the recent dearth of new component data, I haven't considered it likely that the simulator would ever get developed but...
I guess any series of P-Q points is of relevance, my preference would be that units are mH2O and lpm, but conversion is not a problem. In doing the testing I'd suggest recording the data in whatever units your instruments provide, and not trying to do conversions on the fly. (Less chance of introducing an error.) Conversions can be done on all the data at once with a spreadsheet.
I'm certainly interested in whether your tests match the manufacturer's specs.
In addition to the pump data, I'd be interested in knowing the P-Q data for a lot of the components you have. Particularly:
Black Ice Extreme (Very popular and no data)
Chevette heatercore (Provides a cross check between your setup and Bill's)
1970 Blazer heatercore (provides an additional dataset to check against my heatercore spreadsheet)
Maze 3 & 4 (both popular but no P-Q data available)
Innovatek GPU block (I've never seen any P-Q data for any GPU block)
I know most of this is outside the scope of what you are testing, I'm just listing things I'm interested in. If you run out of things to test before allotted testing time elapses...
I think a good idea for future testing would be a GPU block roundup. Lots of people are tossing GPU blocks into their systems (myself included - MCW50) without knowing how the GPU block is impacting the system.