Cracking effort units: mmH₂O, inH₂O, mbar and Pa

Service manuals give cracking effort in whatever unit the maker preferred: millimetres or inches of water, millibar or pascal. Enter the figure from the manual in the unit it uses to see it in the other three, and whether it sits inside the usual range.

Most second stages are set between about 2.5 and 4.2 mbar, which is roughly 1.0 to 1.7 inches of water.

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