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Old 31-01-2005, 03:55 PM   #20
roidan
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Oversizing brings about an increase in performance, especially in the same method of skimming. But whether does the reefer want to oversize or not becomes a personal choice like what we mentioned.

For you, there may not be a need to oversize, but for others, there is a need to oversize to create a safety buffer.

If the potential load of your system is not critical enough when things start dying off, oversizing benefits are not as obvious as one who has a very high potential load should things take a turn for the worst.

So to answer if a skimmer needs to be oversized, it comes back to a personal choice and also personal application. The benefits of oversizing are obviously there despite drawbacks like higher cost....using what is more than necessary in normal day-to-day operations..... just like the benefits of undersizing or maintain just-adequate levels are less cost, not aggresively stripping the water of good substances but the drawbacks are that it cannot expand its perfomance when emergencies arise and so on.

bottomline comes back to what a reefer feel is more important for himself
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