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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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Worth Why do you recommend a Mesh Filter on any kind of irrigation system that you will use? I have well water, I am curious? Beale. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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If it isnt lilted out you can stop up the drip system and with drip lines they are preety much done for when the little holes stop up. If you have purchased an expensive reduced pressure assembly like I have it will also help save it. Here is one. ![]() This just isn't a back flow device it is required if you are going to use any fertilizer injection in your system. What it does if the pressure on the inlet side get below the presuer on the outlets side water will drip out the bottom. You see these all of the time in town and this is what the big ones look like. http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/Spec...Images/CC4.jpg Since you are on well water I would suggest you get at least a vacuum breaker for the supply to your garden. This will keep anything from siphoning back into your well. Once that stuff gets in your well it is done for. If it is on an an aquifer everyone's water is contaminated. Vacuum breaker. A simple hose bib one at least. They are only like 5 dollars Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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Thanks Worth, do I hook this up at the faucet? Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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Thanks again, Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Allentown, PA
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Great diagrams. I'm always trying to think of new, more efficient ways to run my drip system. I especially love the idea of running the tubing up the bottom of a pot to hide it. The only thing I'll add is that I've found the adjustable droppers to be much more useful than running a ring of drip line around a plant.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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Worth While i was out today putting my carrots out. I was adding water to the Walmart bags the are in. My faucet has a Vacuum Breaker installed on it at the source? I have no idea what kind or how restrictive it is. I do know this. I have a right now only a 25' hose on it. The flow is extremely slow coming out of the end of the hose. I mean like a dribble type flow? Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 1,413
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If its a regular vacuum breaker, like the brass one in Worths picture up above, it shouldnt impede the flow hardly at all. Take it off and see if something is clogging it.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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I tried to take it off? I could not? I will sut off the flow to the Main and try again, Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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The only other option it to change out the faucet. If you have to do that I would suggest using a better vacuum breaker and putting a faucet on it. http://www.sprinklerwarehouse.com/Aq...-p/avb-075.htm Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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I got it off. It had some junk in it, and I cleaned it out. I now have great flow! Working like ti should, Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Austin, TX
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These universal compression fittings are the best -- not just for tubing to drip line, but because different brands of drip systems have slightly different inner and outer diameters in their 1/2-inch tubing. So the barb connectors from one may not hold onto the tubing from another. These fittings hold onto everything, so you can mix and match.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: South East Va Zone 7A
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I just want to put an in-line faucet cleaner for the junk? This year I will have 3 beds. With money being very tight I have to start slow. I do not know if I can go the Drip Line way? Beale.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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http://www.dripworks.com/product/FSW...FRHl7Aod3jYAIA http://www.dripworks.com/images/products/fsw.jpg Last edited by Stvrob; April 9, 2015 at 08:22 PM. |
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