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Have you ever thought about the relationship between velocity and pressure? If you think about a fluid being forced through a small orifice, you can fairly easily picture the fluid speeding up as it goes through the orifice. However, did you also know that the surrounding static pressure DECREASES at the point of high velocity? […]

I started working as a tech when I was 17 years old, fresh out of trade school. My first winter out on my own, I went to a service call in an older part of Orlando, a part of town I had never worked in before. It was an especially cold winter that year, and […]