upper boost limit for stock MC-1 internals?

Duncan Thomson duncan at systemcontrols.co.nz
Thu Jun 14 14:43:09 EDT 2001


> > My 5kcstq current reads about 12psi on the Autometer gauge.
> > That seems to convert roughly to 0.8 bar above atmospheric.  Btw,
> > I have a little unit conversion program, and bar and atmosphere are
> > two different things.  Atmosphere is given as 14.50377psi and bar
> > is 14.69595psi.  Are our bars, bars?
> 
> 
> Yes, our bars are bars, as long as you can get a Guinness in them.
> Most people just either round 1 bar up to equal 1 atm or don't know
> that they are not related.
> 
> BTW, you transposed the numbers.

all makes a little more sense in metric... 
1 bar = 100kpa    (approx 1 atm, and a nice round number)
1 atm =101.3kPa (approx)

and yeah, the orig numbers were transposed...

duncan





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