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Default is it always better to use a thicker filter in furnace?

Caesar Romano wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:07:54 -0700, "Bob F"
wrote Re is it always better to use a thicker filter in furnace?:


"Caesar Romano" wrote in message


I don't think so, unless you rig the filters in parallel.


Parallel. Exactly. The thicker filter is like two thinner ones
side-by-side.


No, a thicker filter is like to thinner ones in series, one behind the
other.


Incorrect when the thickness is achieved by larger pleats. The actual
filter *material* is the same. Bigger pleats in a thicker filter
"container" means more area and less resistance.