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Originally Posted by rich2202
When they say "10% Duty Cycle", over what period of time is the 10%? 2.5 minutes on (for a match), and 22 minutes off?
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I don't know what the maximum on time is for the Thomas but somewhere I saw that the Viar was rated for a max on time of 3min. So a ~30 sec initial charge time, a few minutes of rest, 2.5 minutes of cycling on and off during the match and ~30 minutes between matches puts it in its intended duty cycle.
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Eh, I'm not sure I trust Vair specs NEARLY as much as Thomas specs.
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Personally the fact that Viair rates theirs at 9% makes me trust their specs more and the fact that Thomas rates theirs at 10% makes me suspicious of their specs. Fact is that real world numbers rarely come out so nice so Viair advertising 9% makes me think it is based on actual data determined by real world testing w/o rounding it up to 10% which would look better on the data sheet.