Adam:
You have craftily found the limit of my knowledge on the subject. I
respectfully defer to more qualified individuals on this one, except to say
that my gut feling is that it's got to be more complicated than that. But
again, a two-stage compressor does essentially what you're proposing.
George Gorman
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> As a further point to further confuse the issue, what this scheme is doing is
> putting two compressors in parallel in order to up the mass flow. In
contrast,
> a standard two-stage compressor is essentially two compressors in series, a
> scheme which increases mass flow AND pressure. I'm sure there are electrical
> analogies to both these "circuits".
I wonder then, if one could pipe the output of a small compressor
(like the ~2bhp one mentioned) to the input (removing the baffleing
system that seems standard on most) of another, somewhat larger one...
Seems like a lot more likely to cause problems if the second compressor
can't deal with the already compressed air, but... might it work?
ahm
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