Recent content by Marseyus

Having worked on garbage trucks, and some other hydraulic systems, there's a couple of things that could be going on with the truck when it revs up. Depending on how new the truck is, it could either have an always on pto with a bypass valve built in. Basically the Hydraulics are always at full...

I'm 31 years old, beautiful family, I love learning, and have never been scared to ask a question. My father's Father's Father, all the way down to me, have all been mechanics. I went to college to learn a little more about engineering, but ended up going to several technical schools to broaden...

Ok I have a small electric water pump I plan on turning into a hydro generator. The motors max operating range is 14v and 1.2 amps. All of my calculations are going to based off of this. If we run the quick math we come up with approx 8.5 watts. which is about .01 Horsepower. So if 1 hp is 550ft...