Technical question - air pressure

[pontiacgp]

You would be right in your thinking if volume and pressure are the same thing. Connect the shocks and tank, and it will find its even number. If the shocks are 1 cubic foot each with 20psi, connect both together, then to a 20 gallon tank with 10psi, you are looking at about 12psi through the 2 shocks and the tank.

I'll have to think about that for a while...🙂

 

[ck80]

You would be right in your thinking if volume and pressure are the same thing. Connect the shocks and tank, and it will find its even number. If the shocks are 1 cubic foot each with 20psi, connect both together, then to a 20 gallon tank with 10psi, you are looking at about 12psi through the 2 shocks and the tank.

I'll have to think about that for a while...🙂

Not quite true, except for my Moscow mule anelgesic I wouldn't pick up the inaccuracy.

Assuming you didn't have a special connector to attach both shocks and the one tank at the same time, you would wind up with one shock a higher psi than the second shock and tank.

When connecting to the first shock, that shock and tank would equalize.

Then, moving to the second shock, you would have the tank already higher than 10psi as a starting point.

Thus, the second shock would not drop as far from 20psi as the first one did.

 

[marcar1993]

I was assuming for simplicity you could connect both together at the same time, as many air shocks T together to one fitting, many times behind the license plate for easy filling.