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Originally Posted by captdeej
Thanks Alantani, A lot to think about, great information!
In your experience how much more life can you expect from a wet drag and upon inspection of a well maintained greased drag is the amount of material that wears off noticeabl less (in a lever drag reel). I cant seem to stop wondering what are actual drag settings end up being when scale testing from reel to reel after all the variables are factored in. It kinda makes me want to hook a reel up to a electric motor and record the amperage readings from start up to the end of a spooled reel to see the differences in current draw as it relates to the drags performance thruout the run! I would think the start up resistance would be the most critical as that is what we are actually setting.
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as stated before, i have no data. what i do have is an idiot nephew that got smart when i wasn't looking and is now completing a degree in mechanical engineering. he's going to put together a contraption so that i can lock down a penn 80 international, set the drags to 50#, tie off the line to a digital scale, find some way to measure the temperature of the drag disc, and give me continuous readings of handle rpm, pounds of drag pressure and temperature all as a function of time.
i believe that greased carbon fiber drag washers will give you consistent lifetime performance over the lower drag ranges. that's where 99.99999% of us fish. you're right, though. it would be nice to have hard data.