That's more along the lines of the way my "source" explained it!
Joe
William G Rosenbach wrote:
>
> OK, I'll take a whack at it. Hydraulics seem so simple, until you start
> to work with them in the real world...
>
> If you have a 1 square inch piston to which you apply 10 lbs. of force
> you get 10 lbs. per square inch (psi). If you apply that 10 psi to a 1
> square inch piston, you get 10 lbs of force back out.
>
> If you take the same setup and apply the 10 psi to a 0.5 square inch
> piston you are now getting 10 lbs per 1/2 square inch which is 20 psi and
> you get 20 lbs. of force out of the system.
>
> Works the same way in reverse, the 10 psi applied to a 2 square inch
> piston gives 10 lbs per 2 square inches which is 5 lbs. per square inch
> and you get 5 lbs of force out of the system.
>
> Bill 70 GT-6+
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