Thanks for that insight, i guess my main concern is not actually getting an aerated water feed duing operation (i have a small "swirl pot" that is filled by a lift pump, this swirl pot is tall and thin, and mounted vertically, and should easily centrifuge out any air picked up from the main tank during cornering etc), but to ensure that the system will always be ready for operation at the stage start, minimising the time delay/error between a comanded water flow and a real water flow quantity.
My main concern was to "idiot proof" the system, all my experience of motorsport to date tells me that most errors are human, and could be easily avoided by better system design / integration. Complexity as such is not a major issue, but reliablility is, so the system needs to find the balance between these too. I suspect that solid state electronics, if properly designed and integrated are more reliable than a stressed service crew, desperately trying to get the car out on time!
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