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I have only a passing understanding of both, but enough to appreciate the (limited as you say) intuitive resemblances - can anyone enlighten me as to what are

• kd5bjo 6y ago
  If you keep the water slow enough to stay in laminar flow and the electronic scales large enough to avoid quantum effects, electronic and hydraulic components have an essentially 1:1 correspondence. The biggest difference is in mechanical effects: in hydraulics, physical force is primarily a function of the system pressure and velocity of the flow rate. For electromagnetics, those are reversed: voltage controls the speed of a motor and current controls the force, for example. They also deviate from the linear regime in different ways, which means the more interesting components have to be built completely differently to perform the same job. A one-way check valve and a diode are both governed by similar equations on a macro scale, but you’ll never be able to understand the internal structure of the valve by an electronic analogy or the design of the diode by a hydraulic one.