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This section contains full down-loadable articles, straight from the page of KOI NATIONS! These are various tests that we have conducted and for you to take advantage of our findings. Enjoy.
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Pump Test
With today’s rising energy costs and million dollar marketing budgets, we often find ourselves wondering who really has the best products. We knew when we stepped out to do this pump test all hell would break loose, advertisers would get angry, consumers that just bought a pump that didn’t fair well would get angry. Then trying to narrow down what pumps to test and if that wasn’t enough, we needed a facility that knew how to do a proper test without being biased.
We always hear about the efficiencies of some pipe fittings over others, and most often see them in writings or in some graph. Writings and graphs are great, but we wanted to find out exactly what the graphs would look like in a real-world situation. We contacted our friends at Aquatic Eco-Systems (AES) and spoke with Bob Heideman about putting together a comparison test. After a little back and forth on how the test would be done, AES came up with a test fixture that would show us exactly what happens in relation to our flow rates by using one 90º configuration over another.