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I had been working in Aviation for 20 years before my new career as an O&M started in the Power Industry. We can get our inlet air Temp down to about 46'f before the LP sprint switches to HP mode. For some reason I can't get my head around why. All the people I work around seem to think using the HP Sprint is a bad thing. I think that at higher power loads to inject water into the HP compressor would cool the compressor discharge and increase the volume of air going into the combustor. This might let the LM6000 run at higher loads not being in T-48 control. Where the controlling factor is the max TIT this runs the Lm at its hottest temperature. I just don't know enough about why they HP Sprint when they do.