If at each stage an allowance of five or ten percent is made you can see that the compound effect can be significant.
The result is that most pumps are bigger than they need to be in relation to the real duty being performed in an actual system.
If the pump you have is an older model, then this situation is typically worse as other factors such as old designs, and wear have to be considered too.
This results in wasted material in using machines larger than they need to be, and again using more power than the work requires.
What can you do about this? The optimum answer would be to determine the systems’ real duty by measurement and recording on a data logger.
A solution based upon real world conditions can then be made with pumps matched to the systems they run in.
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