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Unread 03/11/2012, 07:41 PM   #19
James77
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Originally Posted by emmanuel View Post
I think you have that backwards
As the head increases, the pump is pumping less, therefore doing less work. So it generally- in most cases- uses less power.

I had a sicce syncra on a kill a watt, and could watch the watts go down the more I closed the ball valve. It went from its rated 47 watts down to 31 pretty easily.


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