How Can Cascaded Pumps Get You Another Decade of Vacuum?
Cascaded Pumps – How They Can Get You Another Decade of Vacuum Introduction Cascaded pumps have a noticeable improvement to how far down they can pull vacuum when compared to a standalone pump. This particular combination of cascading pumps allows us to first pull down the vacuum of the first chamber by decreasing the pressure difference between the first pump’s inlet and exhaust. This reduced the load and thus gave it some more headroom. The second pump acts as a backing pump, which is similar to a turbo configuration. The test set up for how the pumps were arranged can
