Planner SAC rate - imperial

Gaetan Bisson bisson at archlinux.org
Tue Aug 5 21:08:25 PDT 2014


[2014-08-05 20:55:00 -0700] Richard DePas:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Richard DePas <richard.depas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ran one of my deeper dives through the planner to see how different mixes
> > would change deco. I know my normal SAC is about .40cuft/min so I assumed I
> > would need to put in 40 for a SAC rate. Said I would have been out of gas
> > pretty quick. I then adjusted it until I displayed .38cuft/min in the
> > graph. The result was putting 11 in the SAC rate. Is this a metric vs.
> > imperial thing or am I looking at this wrong?
> >
> > [image: Inline image 1]
> >
> 
> Looks to me like the SAC referenced in the planner is psi/min where the one
> displayed in the graph is cuft/min. First time using the planner and this
> is a bit confusing for me.

I believe it's in liters per minute: your 0.40 cuft/min convert to
0.40*28.3==11.3 liters per minute. Using psi/min would not make much
sense as that would make the SAC depend on the cylinder capacity.

-- 
Gaetan


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