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Old 26th Aug 2013, 19:11
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Those speeds are for fully inflated floats I assume.....and I wonder what effect "speed" would have on the float bags as they inflate as there would be quite a bit of flapping around in the wind stream until they were pressurized and "solid".

When the testing was being done on the High Side Floats.....was there any consideration given to using fewer low bags or smaller low bags to compensate for the extra flotation provided by the High Side Bags?



Also...forgot to ask....."Saltwater Immersion Switches" or will they activate automatically in fresh water as well?

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