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Old 09-01-13, 04:48 PM   #1544
berniebenz
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Originally Posted by michael View Post
This is a case of cowboy engineering, but it seems to me turbulence would be a natural outcome of the "slinky" arrangement of source tubing as opposed to straight tubes.
Not so! Slinky ground loops normally have a D to d ratio (slinky D to tube ID) of about 50 to 1. Bend radius caused turbulence occours at ratios <2/1.
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