Just pulled a tough hill, towing my about 17k 5ver, pushing it hard to get past a wide load truck and the turbo went to about 20,000 or so... pretty loud wind up noise that is new to me. Wondered if ...
15 or 20 is probably manifold pressure in psi boost. Turbo's don't usually start making boost until 80 or 90,000 rpm and that's just barely anything, and 110 to 135,000 is where they really start flowing a lot of psi boost.