Originally Posted By: Nate1979
Originally Posted By: steveh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDpzyu0aWE
That video was nonsense. The guy was an idiot with no actual understanding at all.
Agreed. Some of it was worth watching, but a lot of it was pure [censored].
"I counted the number of pleats on both, and again more pleats means more surface area which means better flow and more filtering area. The Fram filter has 35 pleats while the Wix filter has 61 and that's [censored] near twice the amount of media, if you ask me"
... so what?
- How thick are the pleats?
- How wide are the pleats?
- What is the overall surface area?
... and since we're talking # of pleats - what if I double the pleat count again and kept the thickness and surface area per-pleat the same? At what point do I have so many pleats that additional filter material becomes a restriction?
- Does 61 pleats really filter any better than 35? If so, how much, and is it a significant figure?
I call shenanigans.
.. Also, that guy sounds incredibly condescending throughout the video.