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In article , Ned Simmons
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But the question that got this all started was whether a
regulator is analogous to a transformer and whether it's
possible to equate voltage and current to pressure and flow
in a compressible medium.

I think *that* question is pretty well answered.

Care to wager when it'll come up again. g


The point is seen in reverse, when one realizes that
any attempt to illustrate electrical principles using
the old 'pump, tank, pipe, valve' teaching tools
does indeed have certain distinct, um, limitations.


Yup. As I said in my first post in this thread, "any
analogy between electricity and a compressible gas is
doomed." Comparisons to noncompressible flow can get you a
little farther, but have to be abandoned at some point as
well.

Ned Simmons