On Feb 3, 10:22*am, "chaniarts" wrote:
Bob Villa wrote:
On Feb 3, 8:55 am, "Robert Green" wrote:
"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message

...

....comes from the water stored in the tank, vs the incoming water
pressure? I'm referring to an old style toilet, not some dubious
low flush annoy-o-lator.

Anything with a tank is gravity powered. Incoming water, AFAIK, has
nothing to do with flushing, just refilling the tank. I'll bet those
old "Godfather I" type toilets with the ceiling-high tank could
flush a bag of golf balls. Some tankless toilets run off water
pressure, but I've not seen them (here comes the flood of those that
have!) in anything but commercial structures.

--
Bobby G.

I doubt the height added pressure...it's not like it was the depth of
the water, it was just falling farther.

height does add pressure. there's that gravity thing increasing the speed of
the falling water.

The water can only fall at a certain speed though a given
diameter...no matter what height.
At least, that's how I see it. If there was a column of water and it
was release at the bottom...then you would see some pressure.