Technical Tips  

Technical Tips:

1.  You don't need overlap to perform in fluid dynamics.

The THRUST is all that you need in a Personal Watercraft.  The thrust of an impeller is generated by the pressure difference between the pressure side (which is the side of the blade facing the larger hub end) and the de-pressure side (which is the side of the blade facing the smaller hub end).  The amount of overlap of impeller blades has nothing to do with the suction effect or so-called vacuum. The volume of water flowing into the impeller is only dependent on the volume of water flowing out.  The better the impeller controls the flow field the greater the volume of water flowing out of the jet pump and the greater the THRUST.  Atmospheric pressure and personal watercraft dynamics control the delivery of water to the inlet side of the pump. That means blade overlap can not improve thrust because water is not vacuumed in by the impeller.

The amount of overlap is determined by blade geometry.  Nujet is the most efficient design in this business.  Please keep in mind that water enters the blade at a tangent to the blade at the leading edge of blade, so it is independent to amount of overlap.  Then thrust is generated while water is pushed smoothly over the whole blade geometry.

The design philosophy of Nujet is controlling the impeller “FLOW FIELD” and optimizing the “CHORD LENGTH”, “PITCH” and “CAMBER DISTRIBUTION”.  Overlap makes no sense relative to performance.  The best design is high thrust, cavitation free and without overlap.  The Nujet 3D design is the answer to this requirement.

2. Mirror polish pleases your eyes, but does nothing for performance.

If manual buffing would improve the performance of an impeller, the leading manufacturers of Personal Watercraft, and Nujet, would have been doing it for a long time.  An expert in the impeller improvement business says an impeller could lose two pounds of thrust by polishing due to the fact that water in the flow field doesn't bite a polished impeller as efficiently as non polished impeller.

3. Why Nujet doesn't express its “Pitches” in 13/18, 14/19 or as most companies do.

Most people are familiar with so-called “variable” pitches such as 13/18 etc.  These are marketing gimmicks only and they are just “numbers”.  The randomly picked numbers have nothing to do with any real design of a blade or any performance of an impeller.  Think about this, does Brand S1’s 13/18 perform the same as S2’s.  It does not.  Check this out with real experts.  The Destroyer impeller's unique super progressive pitch goes beyond “variable”.  You will discover Nujet's blade angles change radically from the hub to the outer edge.  This allows the impeller to efficiently force as much water through the jet pump, per horsepower, as possible with freedom from cavitation.

Manufacturing:

Every Destroyer is precision investment-casts, using aerospace-grade stainless steel.  Each Destroyer impeller is then heat treated, passivated, CNC machined to exact tolerances, and dynamically balanced.  As a result, every Nujet Destroyer impeller is designed and manufactured to be more precise, more consistent, and more technologically advanced than any other impeller on the market today.


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