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Old 04-25-2008, 01:52 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by diesel_john View Post
So you will be counting how often the pump runs not how long the pump runs, correct.
Well, the pump will run for a fixed amount of time when triggered by the low level detector, i.e. 3 seconds, so lets call that a "pump cycle". I'm just counting how many pump cycles there were. But certainly you could deduce the total running time easily enough.

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Or how many times the pump pulses over time to keep the tube full.
just the number of pump cycles.

By playing with the "tire circumference" on the bike computer and/or the delay time I hope to come up with a useful reading on the distance travelled. i.e. 100 miles is really one gallon dispenced by the pump
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