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Re: Parallel Tanks
Unfortunately, your electrical analogy doesn't work, and the reason is this:
In electricity, the force (emf/voltage) is being "pulled" by the difference in charge. It has a bias, one terminal to the other, and it cannot leak (generally, anyway). In pneumatic systems, force is applied equally in all directions, so when one direction is open, this is the path of least resistance. If a leak opens, this path has very little resistance and the air follows this path. The only way your series design would work would be if there were some way to isolate the ruptured tubing once a leak was detected.
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