garageman402
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.015% = 150ppm. If you had 150ppm of iron or copper in your oil, you'd be upset.Interesting fact!
“On average, swimmers contribute between 100 and 200 milliliters of urine per swim workout. If there are 200 swimmers in a pool at one time, that means there could be over 100 gallons of urine in the pool. “
Seems like a lot!! But….
There’s an average of 660,000 gallons of water in average Olympic size pool!!
So the concentration of urine is a minuscule .015%.
This entire bypass saga boils down to a matter proportionality and practicality.
A defect that in this case, albeit a reflection of an imperfection, is not materially significant in comparison to the overall established superiority of the FUNCTIONING filter.
"Proportionality & practicality" would apply IF you knew exactly how much was being bypassed. This bypass is constant, every filter medium has some restriction, even when new. There is always a deltaP, the more the filter is clogged, the more oil goes through the leak. Fact is, we don't know, and, as in your pool analogy, we assume the maximum. You can't say that there are 150ppm of pee in the pool, if you don't know how many people peed & how much they peed. I like to think they didn't dump their entire bladder in it..........