For those who drip dry their wicking kit:
How do you dry your kit the fastest?
Surely they are designed to move water either:
i)in one direction - fibre design, or
ii)down the concentration gradient.
So, if i) is true it should be dried 'right way out', if ii) is true it should be frequently turned inside-out to allow for best evaporation.
I know it's not really a paradox but I bet you'd not thought of that one.
Thoughts please.
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So right way out every time...
djb
if the outside is wetter than the inside then the movement will be (assuming (ii)) from outside to inside.
if the outside is wetter than the inside (assuming (i)) then movement will still be from inside to outside.
I dunno how it works, just v glad that it does ! ;-)
for dog
To dry wicking kit fastest:
Turn inside outside in outside
Then inside out
Which way wicks water well?
I imagine it doesn't
Matter much really.
(but it does)
How about the concentration is about the same in terms of gradient due to requirement for equilibrium. The outside has larger SA and so will evaporate quicker. Evaporation only occurs at the surface. Hence right way out :-)
Still could be wrong
I'm sure that last sentence is not gramatically correct but you know what I mean. I mean electrically not that they don't move very much.