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Originally posted by reefergeorge
From what I thought I knew about electricity. This would be wrong. So I put my kill a watt meter on my 9.5 and got 76 watts. I closed the ball valve a bit, and it went down to 69 watts. I don't know how this effects the heat output or lifespan, but it definitely lowers the wattage.
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I think it works that way because the more closed you have it, the more the impellar is just spinning the water around, rather than actually moving it. Didn't think of it that way till now.
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