Abstract
Designers and manufacturers of hydrostatic drives have not a tool for precise determination of their energy efficiency, changing in a wide range in the driven device operating field, i.e. in the full range of the hydraulic motor speed and load and the working medium viscosity. This applies both to determining of losses and energy efficiency of displacement machines (pump and hydraulic motor) used in the drive system, and to losses and energy efficiency of the motor control system structure. A method is proposed compatible with the diagram of power increase opposite to the direction of power flow. That diagram replaces the Sankey diagram of power decrease in the direction of power flow.