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Re: pic: 123's vacuum

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Originally Posted by craigboez View Post
Are you powering your vacuum/impeller assembly 1:1 with an FP motor?
As far as I can tell from the picture, it looks to be a centrifugal impeller system. The FP is just being used to spin a little metal disk like the one you'd find in your shop vac. It's a low torque, high speed application that's perfect for the FP. 1771 and 190 built similar systems in 2008.
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