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Wacko AI
OK, we now know the problem was a pinched hose, but there is some
speculation that a failed vacuum pump can actually blow dust backwards into the vacuum instruments. The idea is that residual vacuum at the instruments allows the higher pressure at the failed pump to push the dust into the vacuum instruments. There is an STCd filter that can be placed between the instruments and the pump designed to prevent dust backflow if the pump fails. -- Best Regards, Mike http://photoshow.comcast.net/mikenoel Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. "Morgans" wrote in message ... "Dan Luke" wrote Or the pump is shedding carbon and fouling the system? Only if it is a pressure system, instead of a true vacuum system. Instruments run off of vacuum so that any carbon or other debris from a failed pump goes into the pump and out the exhaust, instead of into the instruments or plumbing. But you knew that and had a brain fart, right? g |
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Wacko AI
"Mike Noel" wrote in message . .. OK, we now know the problem was a pinched hose, but there is some speculation that a failed vacuum pump can actually blow dust backwards into the vacuum instruments. The idea is that residual vacuum at the instruments allows the higher pressure at the failed pump to push the dust into the vacuum instruments. There is an STCd filter that can be placed between the instruments and the pump designed to prevent dust backflow if the pump fails. I thought vacuum systems had a check valve that prevented backwards moving air. No? If not, it sounds like they should. -- Jim in NC |
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Wacko AI
My XP Hawk didn't have a filter upstream of the pump until I had to overhaul
the AH and DG, with carbon found in each instrument. I had a vac 'pump' failure some time previously. Hopefully the filter doers the trick during my next vac failure. -- regards Ron "Morgans" wrote in message ... "Mike Noel" wrote in message . .. OK, we now know the problem was a pinched hose, but there is some speculation that a failed vacuum pump can actually blow dust backwards into the vacuum instruments. The idea is that residual vacuum at the instruments allows the higher pressure at the failed pump to push the dust into the vacuum instruments. There is an STCd filter that can be placed between the instruments and the pump designed to prevent dust backflow if the pump fails. I thought vacuum systems had a check valve that prevented backwards moving air. No? If not, it sounds like they should. -- Jim in NC |
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