[TheForge] Compressor ratings

[Ray Miller]

I believe it to be consistent with many other measures of performance 
that are set by someone leading the field and the later entries have to 
use the same measure even if their product is not represented well by 
the measures:

OTHER EXAMPLES:
Cars used to be rated at a particular RPM. So if you check a 
competitor's engine at the same RPM it might not be the peak of the 
horsepower curve for that engine, but too bad.

Computers: clock speed is the popular measure of performance. However 
operating systems utilize spedd differently. A Windows computer at 1.2 
GHz is slow compared to a  Mac running OS X at 700 MHz.


(A chance to start another thread of disagreement between the PC people 
and the Mac people).....;-)

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

Dave Brown wrote:

> Can anybody tell me why compressors seem to always be rated in horse 
> power and you have to hunt for the important stuff like the cfm 
> delivered at a given pressure?
>
>
> Dave Brown
> Heritage Smithing
> Green Bay, WI
> ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
>
> _______________________________________________
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/theforge
> theforge mail list group photo site is
> http://www.photoaccess.com
> Login:  blacksmithblacksmith@hotmail.com
> password:  anvil
> ___________
>
>
>